Cool Web Dev Sites

A small showcase of web dev sites worth studying — sharp writing and beautiful craft.

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A few web dev sites I keep coming back to — for the writing, the craft, or just to see how they built the thing.

move your cursor through it
Emil Kowalski — Agents with Taste

A design engineer (creator of Sonner and Vaul) on encoding your design taste into skill files so coding agents produce genuinely better animations. His article features an interactive Linear logo — a field of dots that scatter from your cursor. This is that effect, rebuilt with my logo: move your cursor through it and the dots flee, then settle back.

emilkowal.ski
volumetric raymarching
The Blog of Maxime Heckel

Deep, interactive essays on shaders, WebGL/WebGPU, and real-time 3D — each with live playgrounds you can poke at. This cloudscape is built from his volumetric-raymarching write-up: FBM density, Beer's law, a light-march for self-shadowing, and a Henyey–Greenstein phase function.

blog.maximeheckel.com
generative · plum
Anthony Fu

Personal site of one of open source's most prolific design engineers (Vitest, Slidev, VueUse, UnoCSS; core team on Vue, Nuxt, and Vite). The growing branches here recreate the generative "plum" animation from his site's background — vines seeded at the edges that creep inward and fork.

antfu.me