#advocacy
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Choose Boring Technology
Dan McKinley’s infamous essay in presentation form (slides and transcript). -
WPO Stats
Case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) on user experience and business... -
TypeScript at Slack
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Your Body Text Is Too Small
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Everybody scrolls
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There is no fold
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Content parity on the web
Advocating having one website and not creating a cutdown version for mobile users -
Rails has Two Default Stacks
the 37signals one (ERB, MySQL, MiniTest, fat models/skinny controllers) and the “prime” one (Haml, Postgres, RSpec, service... -
illy issimo
High profile commercial site using responsive design -
thoughtbot playbook
Experiences and best practices from the thoughtbot team -
If Flickr had an ego
Dave Winer: “I wish every product had a spokesperson and ego behind it” -
HTML5 vs Native: The Mobile App Debate
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URL Design
Essential advice for building namespaced, human-readable URLs and ensuring that links behave as a link. -
The Fold | WeeNudge
Research and evidence dispelling the hoary old myth over page folds. Part of a family of good sacred cow slaying resources. -
Side effects of developing for yourself
Make something you would actually use: “If I let users steer product decisions, the result would be a massive codebase...Categories
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Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile
An entertaining and probing opinion piece on agile: what works, when and how. Required reading.Categories
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The technical story of Muxtape
Persevered with PHP, but love of Rails and Ruby helped switch away -
Jay Fields' Thoughts: Be Your Start-Up
Advocacy for writing, presenting and contributing to establish your own reputation/brand -
Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS
I totally agree. Now, where are these mythical creatures hiding? -
PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter
It does and it doesn’t. Ugh.