productivity 22 Panels That Always Work: Wally Wood’s Legendary Productivity Hack Comic book artist Wally Wood’s “22 Panels That Always Work” is a legendary bit of productivity hacking. How can you reduce “noodling” in your work?
git Squashing Your Pull Requests Most pull requests should squash down to a single commit with a well-written message explaining why a change is happening.
job hunting React-ing to Change Exactly one year ago today, I was laid off. At the time I was working for Say Media, a small media company that was acquired by Maven, “a relatively unknown
npm How to Distribute a Pattern Library as an npm Package from a Private Git Repo So you’ve got a pattern library: Congratulations! The next step is making it possible for other people to use those patterns. You could simply provide download links for the
frontend Friday Front-End’s Top Links in 2018 In 2018, Friday Front-End shared a curated list of five articles and one video every week. Here are the links that were most popular.
books Books I Loved in 2018 I read 25 books this year. Many were good, but the following three series stood heads and tails above everything else. I devoured them all and enjoyed every word. It’
books Books I Love: The Kingkiller Chronicle Series It’s no exaggeration to say that Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind might be my favorite book of all time. It’s in competition with heavy hitters like
css What is Modular CSS? Modular CSS is a collection of principles for writing code that is performant and maintainable at scale.
books Books I Love: The Expanse Series Set in a near future where we’ve settled the solar system, but simmering tension between Earth, Mars, and the Asteroid Belt could boil over into war at any moment, and a cosmic wild card threatens to destroy everything.
books Books I Love: The Gentleman Bastards Series I have difficulty expressing how much I love Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora and all the other books in the Gentleman Bastards series. They’re fantastically well-constructed and funny heist stories.
books Books I Love: The Culture Series The Culture is a post-scarcity socialist utopia. Banks described them as “hippy commies with hyper-weapons and a deep distrust of both Marketolatry and Greedism.”
design Do Siegel’s Seven Deadly Sins Hold Up? In 1996, David Siegel’s book Creating Killer Web Sites was at the top of the charts on Amazon, and it quickly became the gold standard of web design books.
quotes Great Programming Quotes “If you put in the wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” …I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
books Books I Loved in 2017 I read 28 books in 2017. These are the ones I would happily recommend. Not a ton of new books to recommend this year, because I also was finishing reading
movies How to Export Movie Ratings from Netflix and Import into IMDb When Netflix switched from a 5-star rating scheme to a thumbs up/down model, I realized I was sitting on more than a decade of ratings, and worried they would
frontend Front-End Newsletters A friend recently asked me how I keep up-to-date on what's happening in the front-end community. It's a great question. It used to be that RSS feeds were the way
satire Pointing and Shouting Your Way to Better Code Time and again we turn to the Japanese for inspiration to improve process and efficiency. Toyota's lean manufacturing processes gave us the concept of kaizen (continuous improvement), as well as
mobile What’s the Mobile Use Case? I recently worked on a project to dramatically improve mobile access for an app. At least twice during the proposal process, I was asked “What’s the mobile use case?
css How to Define CSS Standards for a Team “We’re going through a major redesign of our app and every page is given to one person on the team to complete from end-to-end, including creating the HTML structure
books Books I Loved in 2016 Growing up, my dad was a voracious reader. Our house was always filled with piles of dog-eared science fiction and fantasy novels. Even before I was old enough to start
job hunting Looking for Work SUCKS Looking for work is an intensely stressful experience. It’s also insidious, because it doesn’t feel like it should be stressful. During a job hunt, I often find myself
editors My Sublime Text Setup I've put a bit of work into customizing my Sublime Text setup. It's mostly based on a set of tips from Wes Bos, who literally wrote the book on becoming
css Code Verbosity Recently I was refactoring some CSS, and I found something like this code snippet: body { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; } h1 { font-family: serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; } Ugh,
books Books I Loved in 2015 I have a terrible memory about books I’ve read. Often, all I can tell you is that I’m a fan of an author or a particular book, but
programming Falsehoods Programmers Believe I'm in love with these lists of "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About X." In case you haven't had pleasure, I've collected all the ones I know of here. If
