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date = 2020-05-02T12:39:54+01:00
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title = "My Developer Resources"
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description = "The best resources you never knew you forgot. You won't believe number 9!"
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tags = ["Resources", "Assets"]
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categories = ["Development"]
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featured_image = "/images/undraw-02.svg"
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Yesterday I discovered the excellent [unDraw](https://undraw.co). Apparently,
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it's been around for quite a few years now.
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Anyway, after a little 'how did I not know about this earlier?' moment and a
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quick investigation, it was bookmarked and, with a determination not to
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completely forget about it within minutes as I usually do, I happily went about
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my day.
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It's now one day later and I just so happen to be starting a little personal
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web project of mine. And what would be the perfect little touch to start it off
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with? That's right, a nice little vector illustration.
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{{<
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figure
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src="/images/undraw-01.svg"
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alt="A stylised illustration of a developer sitting alongside a huge laptop."
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class="medium"
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>}}
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So, I go to find the bookmark and it turns out, there's two bookmarks. Exactly the
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same. So, I did know about this site. For how long? Who knows. I haven't got the
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best memory so it could reasonably be anywhere from a month or two, to years.
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And, I'm fairly certain it's not the only duplicate in there ...
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Anyway, the point of all this rambling? It's about time I did something
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and that's where this post comes in.
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My resource 'Hall of Fame' if you will. A place to memorialise the less used,
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but nonetheless worthy resources of mine. Never again, to be lost in the annals
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of time.
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Probably not too much use to anyone else, but just the thing for me.
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## Analytics
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* [Open Web Analytics](http://www.openwebanalytics.com/) – an open source alternative to Google Analytics.
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## Assets
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### Favicons
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* [Favicon Generator](https://realfavicongenerator.net/)
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### Icons
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* [Iconify](https://iconify.design/)
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### Illustrations
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* [manypixels](https://www.manypixels.co/gallery/?page=1&style=image)
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* [IRA Design](https://iradesign.io/)
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* [Humaaans](https://www.humaaans.com/) – a library for Figma, XD, etc.
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* [undraw](https://undraw.co/)
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### Stock Images
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* [Librestock](https://librestock.com/)
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* [Pexels](https://pexels.com/)
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* [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/)
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* [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/)
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### SVG
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* [SVG Wave Generator](https://getwaves.io)
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### Placeholder Images
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* [Placeholder.com](https://placeholder.com/)
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### Public Domain Assets
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* [Creative Commons](https://search.creativecommons.org/)
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* [Flicker - British Library Albums](https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums)
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* [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/)
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* [Public Domain Archive](http://publicdomainarchive.com/)
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* [Public Domain Photos](http://www.photos-public-domain.com/)
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* [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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## Design
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* [Colors and Fonts](https://www.colorsandfonts.com/) – a curated library of
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colors and fonts for digital designers and web developers.
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* [Figma](https://www.figma.com)
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## Fonts
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* [Google Fonts](http://www.google.com/fonts)
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## Frameworks and Libraries
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### CSS
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* [Bulma](https://bulma.io/documentation/)
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* [Pure](http://purecss.io/)
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#### Classless CSS
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* [Drop-in Minimal CSS](https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/)
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* [CSS Bed](https://www.cssbed.com/)
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### JavaScript
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* [Loopback](https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/index.html)
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* [Nodemailer](https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer)
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* [ScrollMagic](https://github.com/janpaepke/ScrollMagic)
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* [Socket.io](https://github.com/socketio/socket.io)
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## Maps
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* [Mapbox](https://www.mapbox.com/) – an open source alternative to Google Maps.
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* [Snazzy Maps](https://snazzymaps.com/) – styles for Google Maps.
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## PHP
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* [PHPmailer](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)
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## Reference
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* [A big list of naughty strings](https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings)
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* [HTML Ampersand Character Codes](http://rabbit.eng.miami.edu/info/htmlchars.html)
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* [HTML Symbols](https://www.toptal.com/designers/htmlarrows/)
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* [TL;DR Legal](https://tldrlegal.com/) – software licences in plain English.
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## Tools
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* [Can I Use](http://caniuse.com/)
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* [Base64 Encoder/decoder]( http://www.mobilefish.com/services/base64/base64.php )
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* [GitHub - svg/svgo](https://github.com/svg/svgo) – a Node.js based tool for optimizing SVG files.
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* [Hex RGBA to Proper RGBA](https://kilianvalkhof.com/2016/css-html/css-hexadecimal-colors-with-transparency-a-conversion-tool/)
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* [Lets Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/)
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* [Neumorphism/Soft UI CSS shadow generator](https://neumorphism.io/)
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### Fake User Generators
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* [Fake Name Generator](http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/gen-male-nl-bg.php)
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* [Fake Number Generator](https://fakenumber.org/united-kingdom)
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* [Faker](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker)
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* [Random User Generator](https://randomuser.me/)
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### Gradients
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* [Gradient Finder](http://gradientfinder.com/)
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* [UI Gradients](https://uigradients.com/#)
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## API Directories
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* [ProgrammableWeb](http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory)
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* [The Open Source Discovery Service](https://libraries.io/)
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## CSS Animations
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* [Animista](http://animista.net/)
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* [cubic-bezier.com](http://cubic-bezier.com/#.17,.88,.32,1.2)
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* [Easing Functions Cheat Sheet](http://easings.net/#)
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## Colour Palettes
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* [Adobe Color CC](https://color.adobe.com/create/image/)
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* [Coolors.co](https://coolors.co/)
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* [Degreave Color Palette Generator](http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php?q=http://www.degraeve.com/images/beach.jpg,3040356B9FA390AEADB1C5CB43729C,28513540C2CC8EDAD6BEEEFE005AC3/)
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* [Paletton](http://paletton.com/#uid=13z0u0k++NutuZOLB+V+WuI+5oa)
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## Validators
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* [Google Mobile Friendly Test](https://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/)
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* [PageSpeed Insights](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/)
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* [The W3C CSS Validation Service](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_input)
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* [The W3C Markup Validation Service](http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input)
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* [Website Speed test](https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test.aspx)
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## Telemetry
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* [builtwith.com](https://builtwith.com)
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* [WordPress Theme Detector](http://www.wpthemedetector.com)
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* [What WordPress Theme Is That?](http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/)
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## Search Engines
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* [Picular](https://picular.co/beetroot) – a search engine for colours.
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* [Symbol Hound](http://symbolhound.com/) – a programming search engine.
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## Hosting
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* [Cloudways](https://www.cloudways.com/en/)
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* [Netlify](https://app.netlify.com/)
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## Content Management Systems
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* [Octobercms](https://github.com/octobercms/october)
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### WordPress
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* [Fakerpress](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/fakerpress/) – generate
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fake user data.
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* [Plugin Update Checker](https://github.com/YahnisElsts/plugin-update-checker)
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* [Sage](https://roots.io/sage/) – a WordPress starter theme.
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* [Simba Plugin Updates Manager](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/simba-plugin-updates-manager/#descriptio/)
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* [Underscores](http://underscores.me/) – a WordPress starter theme.
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