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Christian Heilmann: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web
8.8.2024
Christian Heilmann gave this talk at Typo3 Developer Days. I’m linking it up because it strikes an already stricken nerve in me. The increasing complexity of web development has an inverse relationship with the decreasing number of entry points …
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5 Ways to Step up your Game as a Developer and Reach more Clients
4.12.2023
Explore five key strategies for developers to distinguish themselves and attract clients, from joining vibrant communities like Merge to utilizing continuous learning platforms and more
5 real-world Python applications
28.8.2023
From web development frameworks to machine learning libraries, Python’s versatility is driving innovation across the board
How to learn JavaScript using ChatGPT
27.5.2023
Discover how to learn JavaScript effectively using ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model
Caching Data in SvelteKit
1.2.2023
My previous post was a broad overview of SvelteKit where we saw what a great tool it is for web development. This post will fork off what we did there and dive into every developer’s favorite topic: caching. So, …
Caching Data in SvelteKit originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
How to Transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome Extensions
19.1.2023
While I am not a regular Chrome extension programmer, I have certainly coded enough extensions and have a wide enough web development portfolio to know my way around the task. However, just recently, I had a client reject one of …
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Customizing HTML Form Validation
9.1.2023
Form validation has always been my least favorite part of web development. You need to duplicate validation on both client and server sides, handle loads of events, and worry about form element styling. To aid form validation, the HTML spec added some new form attributes like required and pattern...
Finding Front-End Development Scholarships
16.11.2022
I’m often asked where to learn web development. The answer varies, of course, and we’ve published a few posts on the topic over the years, the most recent of which was Chris taking a stab at different learning paths in …
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Web3 devs ‘more active than ever’ amid crypto winter: Report
14.10.2022
Consecutive all-time-high smart contract deployments and surging usage of Web3 script libraries mean that Web3 devs are still busy working despite the prolonged market downturn
CSS :out-of-range
22.8.2022
One aspect of web development I’ve always loathed was working with forms. Form elements have been traditionally difficult to style due to OS and browser differences, and validation can be a nightmare. Luckily the native HTML APIs added methods for improving the form validation situation. With...
Great (and Free!) Web Development Books You Can Get Online
27.6.2022
Right after “Where is the best place to learn?” perhaps the most commonly asked question I hear from folks getting into code is “What web development books should I get to learn?” Well, consider this an answer to that question …
Great (and Free!) Web Development Books...
6 Useful Bookmarklets to Boost Web Development
28.3.2022
A bookmarklet is a JavaScript-based bookmark that adds to a web browser. I’d like to show you some awesome web browser hacks to aid your web development workflow and how to convert those hacks into time-saving bookmarklets.
Activating design mode
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What the Heck is the Command Line?
20.1.2022
Now that we know what npm stands for and have a super general idea of what it does and how it fits into web development, we ought to spend a little bit of time looking at the command line, because …
What the Heck is the Command Line? originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
Inertia
7.12.2021
I’ve always like Jeremy’s categorization of developer tools:
I’ve mentioned two categories of tools for web development. I still don’t know quite what to call these categories. Internal and external? Developer-facing and user-facing?The first category covers things like …
Responsive Layouts, Fewer Media Queries
22.11.2021
We cannot talk about web development without talking about Responsive Design. It’s just a given these days and has been for many years. Media queries are a part of Responsive Design and they aren’t going anywhere. Since the introduction of …
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Our Learning Partner: Frontend Masters
24.9.2021
Frontend Masters has been our learning partner for a couple of years now. I love it. If you need structured learning to up your web development skills, Frontend Masters is the place. It works so well because we don’t offer …
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Learn How to Build True Edge Apps With Cloudflare Workers and Fauna
23.9.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
There is a lot of buzz around apps running on the edge instead of on a centralized server in web development. Running your app on the edge allows your code to be closer to …
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Twitter’s div Soup and Uglyfied CSS, Explained
22.9.2021
When I came up in web development (2005-2010 were formative years for me), one of the first lessons I learned was to have a clean foundation of HTML. “What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like” is actually one of the most …
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I completely ignored the front-end development scene for 6 months. It was fine.
3.9.2021
Have you ever fretted that front-end web development moves so fast that if you stepped away for a while, you’d be lost coming back? Rachel Smith has:
The hectic pace of needing to learn one thing after the next
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A Step-By-Step Process for Turning Designs Into Code
21.7.2021
Turning website design files into a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is the bread and butter of many front-end web development jobs, but there’s a part of this work that doesn’t neatly fit in to tutorials on any specific …
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