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Direct link to the article Teaching Web Dev for Free is Good Business
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Teaching Web Dev for Free is Good Business

It feels like a trend (and a smart one) for tech platforms to invest in really high-quality learning material for their platform. Let’s have a gander.…

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Chris Coyier on Feb 24, 2021
Direct link to the article To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

One of the things I do when teaching beginning front-end development is ask students to describe what it’s like to read HTML. I give them pretty basic markup for a long-form article, and ask them to read it twice: first …

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Geoff Graham on Feb 22, 2021
Direct link to the article Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager
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Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager

I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale. Through these experiences, I’ve done my share of learning, and made some mistakes along that way that were important lessons for me. I want to share those with …

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Sarah Drasner on Feb 18, 2021
Direct link to the article What Makes CSS Hard To Master
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What Makes CSS Hard To Master

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Tim Severien:

I feel we, the community, have to acknowledge that CSS is easy to get started with and hard to master. Let’s reflect on the language and find out what makes it hard.

Tim’s reasons CSS is hard …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Dec 18, 2020
Direct link to the article The Power of Lampshading
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The Power of Lampshading

I enjoyed this blog post from Shawn. Lampshading is apparently the idea of a TV show calling attention to some weakness (like an implausible plot point) so that the show can move on. By calling it out, it avoids criticism …

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Chris Coyier on Dec 16, 2020
Direct link to the article 2020 was not a good year for learning
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2020 was not a good year for learning

There, I said it.

What did I learn about building websites in 2020? A lot. But what I learned is not nearly as important as how I learned it. So instead, I want to share a couple of strategies I …

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Natalya Shelburne on Dec 9, 2020
Direct link to the article Layoutit Grid: Learning CSS Grid Visually With a Generator
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Layoutit Grid: Learning CSS Grid Visually With a Generator

Layoutit Grid is an interactive open source CSS Grid generator. It lets you draw your designs and see the code as you go. You can interact with the code, add or remove track lines and drag them around to change …

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Matias Capeletto on Oct 15, 2020
Direct link to the article What I Learned by Fixing One Line of CSS in an Open Source Project
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What I Learned by Fixing One Line of CSS in an Open Source Project

I was browsing the Svelte docs on my iPhone and came across a blaring UI bug. The notch in the REPL knob was totally out of whack. I’m always looking to contribute to open source, and I thought this would …

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Benjamin Schachter on Aug 14, 2020 (Updated on Aug 17, 2020)
Direct link to the article Want to get better at code? Teach someone CSS.
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Want to get better at code? Teach someone CSS.

A friend of mine recently asked me to teach her to code. She was an absolute beginner, having no idea what coding really involves. I decided to start where I started: HTML and CSS. Using CodePen, we started forking Pens …

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Peter Murray on Jul 28, 2020
Direct link to the article A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot
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A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot

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Julia Evans:

I decided to implement almost all of the UI by just adding & removing CSS classes, and using CSS transitions if I want to animate a transition.

An awful lot of the JavaScript on sites (that aren’t …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 8, 2020
Direct link to the article Settling down in a Jamstack world
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Settling down in a Jamstack world

One of the things I like about Jamstack is that it’s just a philosophy. It’s not particularly prescriptive about how you go about it. To me, the only real requirement is that it’s based on static (CDN-backed) hosting. You …

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Chris Coyier on Jul 3, 2020
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