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Direct link to the article Before I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers
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Before I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers

That’s a damn one-two punch from Dave. He goes for the ultimate clickbait title¹, then follows up with a pile of epic advice for us all. If you want web browsers to get better, listen up:

Complaining on

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Chris Coyier on Feb 22, 2022
Direct link to the article Building a newbie-friendly codebase
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Building a newbie-friendly codebase

Pedro Santos suggests:

  1. Using naming conventions such that you can learn them once and apply them everywhere
  2. Unidirectional data flows. Make it easy to follow the app flow.
  3. No magic numbers. I’d add they are even worse in CSS
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Chris Coyier on Feb 3, 2022
Direct link to the article How Many Websites Should We Build?
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How Many Websites Should We Build?

Someone emailed me:

What approach to building a site should I take?

  1. Build a single responsive website
  2. Build a site on a single domain, but detect mobile, and render a separate mobile site
  3. Build a separate mobile site on a
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Chris Coyier on Dec 27, 2019
Direct link to the article Clips from my DEV AMA
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Clips from my DEV AMA

I recently did an AMA over on DEV. Just taking the opportunity to port over some answers here like a good indiewebber.…

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Chris Coyier on Dec 20, 2019
Direct link to the article Creating a Diversity Scholarship Program for Your Conference
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Creating a Diversity Scholarship Program for Your Conference

My partner and I ran a design and development conference company for eight years. During that time, we produced hundreds of hours of conferences, both on-site and online. Diversity scholarships were only becoming a typical conference offering around the time …

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Ari Stiles on May 20, 2019
Direct link to the article Interviewing for a Technical Position Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
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Interviewing for a Technical Position Doesn’t Have to Be Scary

Jacob Schatz (@jakecodes) is a staff engineer over at GitLab and was kind enough to share how he conducts job interviews for technical positions and his thinking process for them. Technical interviews are talked about often and can …

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Jacob Schatz on Apr 26, 2019
Direct link to the article Twenty Years as a Freelance Web Developer: Wisdom Gained and Lessons Learned
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Twenty Years as a Freelance Web Developer: Wisdom Gained and Lessons Learned

In the summer of 1998, when President Clinton fended off allegations of sexual impropriety and Donald Trump filmed a cameo in a Woody Allen movie, I embarked on my career as a freelance web developer. Twenty years and more than …

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Adam Coti on Sep 18, 2018
Direct link to the article “Old Guard”
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“Old Guard”

Someone asked Chris Ferdinandi what his biggest challenge is as a web developer:

… the thing I struggle the most with right now is determining when something new is going to change the way our industry works for the better,

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Chris Coyier on Aug 21, 2018
Direct link to the article What bit of advice would you share with someone new to your field?
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What bit of advice would you share with someone new to your field?

The most FA of all the FAQs.

Here’s Laura Kalbag:

Find what you love. Don’t worry about needing to learn every language, technique or tool. Start with what interests you, and carve your own niche. And then use your powers

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Chris Coyier on Jul 18, 2018
Direct link to the article How The Heck Do You Hire a Web Design Agency?
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How The Heck Do You Hire a Web Design Agency?

Steven Trwoga wrote to me with a perfectly reasonable question:

I have an idea for a website I would like to have built. I believe it would fall into the category of “large project”.

I have spoken with, and been

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Chris Coyier on Mar 3, 2016

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