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    #Adobe policy updates. If you use their products for confidential projects, this might be worth being on your radar. Because it's come up in the same conversation – just going to here for my records (and anyone else) this list of alternatives for #Adobe software. https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives #webdev #design #photoshop

  • "Managing My Motivation, as a Solo Dev": – Convert external sources to motivation– Leave tasks unfinished– Address the pain, instead of pushing through– Update my users #webdev #developer #programming https://mbuffett.com/posts/maintaining-motivation/

  • "In Praise Of The Basics" https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/05/in-praise-of-the-basics/ "Long live the basics! Long live the “a-ha!” moments that help us all fall in love with the World Wide Web." #webdev #oldschool #html #css

  • Modern #CSS Layouts: You Might Not Need A Framework For That #webdev https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/05/modern-css-layouts-no-framework-needed/

  • "Upgrading #jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web" #webdev #JavaScript https://blog.jquery.com/2024/04/17/upgrading-jquery-working-towards-a-healthy-web/ "After analyzing the results of a survey conducted by IDC, the OpenJS Foundation estimated that 90% of all websites use jQuery. And about a third of those use an outdated version."

  • Mediocre Engineer’s guide to #HTTPS https://devonperoutky.super.site/blog-posts/mediocre-engineers-guide-to-https #webdev

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    "For no good reason we made it so users can see where the space where the feature will go but will have to wait until the next release." 🤔 #webdev #memes #ux

  • “Why don’t we talk about minifying #css anymore?” #webdev https://blog.sentry.io/why-dont-we-talk-about-minifying-css/

  • OH: "What's the difference between a light bulb and a #programmer? A light bulb stops working when it burns out." #programming #webdev #burnout

  • The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good #webdev #ux #design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxJ6PtuF9M

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    "My debugger crashed just now." 🤔 #programming #webdev #memes

  • SuperFile is a "fancy and modern #terminal file manager". #cli #webdev https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile

  • Identifying #Font Subsetting Opportunities with Web Font Analyzer #frontend #webdev https://paulcalvano.com/2024-02-16-identifying-font-subsetting-opportunities/

  • #JavaScript Compare Dates: From Chaos to Clarity https://medium.com/@onlinemsr/javascript-compare-dates-fa4f00a24b34 #WebDev

  • "No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form" https://adamjones.me/blog/dont-use-contact-forms/ "Contact forms are almost always worse for users than just putting an email on your website. I explore why they’re terrible, why you’ve done it anyway, and what to do about it." #webdev #ux

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    Starting work on someone's legacy codebase realizing with TERROR it's not built with the framework you expected. #webdev #programming #memes #JavaScript

  • The WebAIM Million: The 2024 report on the #accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages https://webaim.org/projects/million/ #webdev

  • Good enough is…. good enough. https://ep2013.europython.eu/conference/talks/good-enough-is-good-enough Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHG9FRSlPxw "Our culture’s default assumption is that everybody should always be striving for perfection – settling for anything less is seen as a regrettable compromise." #EuroPython #Python #webdev

  • TIL about https://www.svgviewer.dev View, edit, and optimize SVGs. Also other #SVG and path editors/croppers: https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/https://svgcrop.com/https://www.softr.io/tools/svg-shape-generator #webdev

  • #HTML attributes vs DOM properties #webdev #frontend https://jakearchibald.com/2024/attributes-vs-properties/

  • Although not directly #WordPress related if you work on any CMS, I would give @chriscoyier and @davatron5000 podcast episode on a "fantasy #blogging / #CMS setup" a listen. 👂🏻 Has guest @mathowie on. https://shoptalkshow.com/612/ #webdev

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    "Man, how can you smile when you go through code reviews?" 🤔 #programming #webdev #memes

  • Developers you cannot complain about debugging your code unless you work at NASA. New rule. #programming #webdev https://mastodon.social/@jimray/112316533559894202

  • Accepting almost* everything in #webdev eventually falls but agreeing w/ @chriscoyier here. "Technologies do tend to come and go…. But when tech gets big enough, it tends to not go. #WordPress is huge, and it’s been huge every second of my entire web dev career. To me it echos social media in a way. In…

  • "Everyone has #JavaScript, right?" About a minute read. https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html #webdev

  • Pragmatic drag and drop lib that can be used with any view layer (react, svelte, vue, angular and so on). Powers Trello, Jira and Confluence. #TypeScript #JavaScript #opensource https://github.com/atlassian/pragmatic-drag-and-drop #webdev

  • "Converting Plain Text To Encoded #HTML With Vanilla #JavaScript" #webdev https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/converting-text-encoded-html-vanilla-javascript/

  • Upgrading #jQuery: "Working Towards a Healthy Web" #webdev #JavaScript https://blog.jquery.com/2024/04/17/upgrading-jquery-working-towards-a-healthy-web/

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    It's not easy being a young #frontend #developer on the dating scene. #memes #webdev

  • #opensource #game introduces players to #Git allowing "them to immediately see the results of their actions through a visualization of the internal structures of Git repositories". Sounds awesome or like hell on earth. Either way, cool. https://blinry.itch.io/oh-my-git #webdev