Egor Kloos describes a situation where a (purely visual) designer asks for some changes to a component. There is a misunderstanding where the (code monkey) developer implements the change exactly as requested—but really what was required was both a bug …
Blog posts that get into the whole “how to think like a front-end developer” vibe are my favorite. Michelle Barker nails that in this post, and does it without sharing a line of code!
…We simply can no longer
Big thoughts on where the industry is headed from Shawn Wang:
…Advancements in two fields — programming languages and cloud infrastructure — will converge in a single paradigm: where all resources required by a program will be automatically provisioned, and
This is a good tweet from Harry:
…Simple yet significant thing all developers should keep in mind: CSS resources (fonts, background images) are not requested by your CSS, but by the DOM node that needs them [Note: slight oversimplification, but
When I think about what front-end development really is and feels like, this is at the heart of it: designing around a huge set of unknowns, and really embracing that notion as a strength of the web rather …
Matt Hobbs says you should hire a front-end developer because…
I wrote a piece for Layout, the blog of my hosting sponsor Flywheel.
…Stick around in this field for a while, and you’ll see these libraries, languages, build processes, and heck, even entire philosophies on how best to
Let’s say there is a divide happening in front-end development. I feel it, but it’s not just in my bones. Based on an awful lot of written developer sentiment, interviews Dave Rupert and I have done on ShopTalk, and …
Harry Roberts writes about working on a project with a rather nasty design flaw. The website was entirely dependent on images loading before rendering any of the content. He digs into why this bad for accessibility and performance but goes …
