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Direct link to the article The Gap (Design Engineering)
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The Gap (Design Engineering)

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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 …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Nov 17, 2021
Direct link to the article Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components
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Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components

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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

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Oct 7, 2021
Direct link to the article The Self Provisioning Runtime
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The Self Provisioning Runtime

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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

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Sep 24, 2021
Direct link to the article Resources aren’t requested by CSS, but by the DOM
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Resources aren’t requested by CSS, but by the DOM

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

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Chris Coyier on Sep 20, 2021
Direct link to the article Designing for the Unexpected
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Designing for the Unexpected

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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 …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Aug 26, 2021
Direct link to the article Why you should hire a front-end developer
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Why you should hire a front-end developer

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Matt Hobbs says you should hire a front-end developer because…

  • “A front-end developer is the best person to champion accessibility best practices in product teams.”
  • “80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the front end.”
  • “A front-end developer
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Shared by Chris Coyier on Aug 26, 2020
Direct link to the article What it means to be a front-end developer in 2020 (and beyond)
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What it means to be a front-end developer in 2020 (and beyond)

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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

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Dec 29, 2019
Direct link to the article The Great Divide
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The Great Divide

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 …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 21, 2019 (Updated on Aug 19, 2021)
Direct link to the article What If?
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What If?

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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 …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Nov 28, 2018

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