Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all of you celebrating - this week we explore some neat background effects, SVG text path animations, and interesting trends!

❤️ Donovan at CSSAnimation.rocks

CSS Only Animated Background Effects — www.youtube.com

A special Christmas-themed animated background effect to make your website nice and wintery

SVG Text Path Animation with no libraries — www.youtube.com

Check out this handy tutorial on creating SVG text-path animation

2023 visual design trends guide — uxdesign.cc

Check out the 2023 design trends, including the rise of motion design, parallax and more

And now a word from...

Work with Toast 🍞 — grnh.se

Work with me at Toast, building the world's best restaurant platform.

This year we are growing our teams across engineering, dev-ops, marketing, design, customer support and more. We have offices in Boston, Dublin and Bangalore, as well as many remote teams all over the world.

I'd love it if you could join me!

You can apply online, or just reply to this email and I'll be happy to check your CV or help set you up in the right role.

Inspiration

Tree: Animated Lights

'tis the season to go overboard alright - HTML and CSS lights on this fancy tree look amazing

Passcode With Sliding Cursor — codepen.io

A lovely left-to-right transition brings this code input to life

That's all for this week! Don't forget, you can send me your CV or make 2023 the year you join Toast.

Also - things might change a bit here from next week. This platform, Revue, is closing, so I'll be looking for a replacement. Thanks for your ongoing support, and here's to a great 2023!