Brad Woods writes a digital garden of articles on front-end engineering, design, CSS, shaders, and interactive visual effects.
Commenters praise it as a large collection of excellent educational articles, especially the interactive 'juice' piece, though one notes it loads slowly.
Tasteful: https://colly.com/
Artsy: https://anhvn.com/
Simple yet elegant: https://www.lkhrs.com/ and https://arun.is/blog/
Maximalist: https://henry.codes/ and https://garden.bradwoods.io/ and https://blog.maximeheckel.com/
Old-school / indie web: https://ribo.zone/
Text mode / ASCII art: https://adelfaure.net/
Typography: http://davidcole.me/ and https://www.petemillspaugh.com/
I have more. You can keep rolling the dice on https://indieblog.page/random and eventually you'll stumble across some pretty sites. Usually the nicest ones are from frontend / design engineer types of people. EDIT - oh and the sites in the internet phone book! https://internetphonebook.net/ as well as browsing screenshots at https://personalsit.es/
Brad Woods has an amazing website dynamically illustrating the concept of "juice", which he defines as "the non-essential visual, audio and haptic effects that enhance the player's experience".
There's an example of how you can juice up a simple "delete" button with various levels of UX. I encourage you to play around with it to juice up your own buttons!
Source: https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/juice
Recently, https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/css/blend-modes was linked to, which, using Firefox on Android, takes hundreds of milliseconds to paint the new screen whenever I scroll. I can also notice the behavior on my desktop if I scroll quickly enough, even if I disable JavaScript. So it most likely has to do with an advanced CSS feature, perhaps the blend modes it is showcasing.
I understand the sentiment, but I believe Brad Woods explained it better in https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/juice .
Flat design is much more of a blank canvas than old desktop UI toolkits were, but companies are loathe to invest in "Juice" because it requires a level of attention to detail that works against fast iteration.
Can you supply a link please, could not find it. His page is worth looking at, even if it takes a while to load.
(edit) nevermind, found it: https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/problem-solving
Brad has a large collection of excellent articles written to educate on topics [1]. Don't miss the others, there are some real gems.
[1] https://garden.bradwoods.io/