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🤝 resources and meetups

or, the “let me Google that for you” part.

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RTFM. (via Classic Programmer Paintings)

references: Mozilla Developer Network, Stack Overflow, //grep.app, Can I use…?, Can I email…?, State of Interop, WHATWG, W3C, devhints.io, Web Almanac

inspiration: Bret Victor, The Great Divide (ooooops I guess we’re* full-stack developers now, The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers), These things I believe, The Pragmatic Engineer, CSS Zen Garden, Indie Hackers, The Melting Pot of JavaScript, Don’t Learn to Code, Feudalism of the web, How to Become a Hacker, Hackers and Painters, Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic, Irrational Exuberence (StaffEng), Kalzumeus, Nolan Lawson, A Smart Bear, Choose Boring Technology

tutorials: Google Developers, Hacker Noon, Dive into HTML5, MIT CompSci, freeCodeCamp, gitconnected

news: Chromium Blog, The Console Log, Hacker News, TechCrunch, State of JS, State of CSS, Cooperpress

books: The Effective Engineer, Getting Real, Team Geek, Software Engineering: The Soft Parts, Managing Humans, Turn the Ship Around!, Microserfs, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

conferences: XOXO, JSConf, ReactConf, React Rally, city-specific React conferences

how-to interview: CodePen, CoderPad, CodeSandbox, Preparing for a Front-End Web Development Interview, Questions to ask a potential tech employer, levels.fyi

references to this guide: Grab’s Frontend Guide, Developer Roadmap, Best of JS, Frontend Checklist, Web Almanac, Robin Wieruch, Periodic Table of Web APIs

fun stuff: xkcd, Classic Programmer Paintings, CommitStrip, Hacker Typer, 8-bit Color Cycling, Katamari Hack, How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016, Security Talk, Website Security, The Birth and Death of Javascript, I finally escaped Node, What Color is Your Function?, js1k

references

Mozilla Developer Network: the best reference for web technologies.

Stack Overflow: the go-to place for when you’ve RTFM and still don’t WTF is broken.

//grep.app: search across tons of git repos for example code.

Can I use…?: to check cross-browser support for a particular feature.

“Hell is other browsers — Sartre” (from QuirksMode, the original support reference)

Also related: Can I email…?

Also related: State of Interop

WHATWG: if you’re feeling reeaaaally technical.

W3C: if you’re feeling reeaaaally technical.

devhints.io: helpful, quick cheatsheets.

Web Almanac

inspiration

Bret Victor: my personal hero. ⭐

The Future of Programming: amazing video of how much is still left to be done.

Inventing on Principle: a fantastic video on figuring out the “why” of coding.

The Great Divide: what does it actually mean to be a “frontend developer”. a must read.

ooooops I guess we’re* full-stack developers now: follow-up essay.

The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers: another follow-up essay.

These things I believe: an impassioned essay on user interfaces and software.

The Pragmatic Engineer: great articles on engineering as a career.

CSS Zen Garden: the original site showcasing the usefulness of CSS.

Indie Hackers: independent projects showing how you can make it on your own.

The Melting Pot of JavaScript: Dan Abramov’s essay on the love of JS.

Don’t Learn to Code: building a product is just as rewarding.

Feudalism of the web: interesting take on current state of affairs on the web.

How to Become a Hacker: the original hacker’s manual by an open source legend.

Hackers and Painters: on the art of coding, a classic essay.

Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic: don’t forget to unplug.

Irrational Exuberence: Great career advice, esp. for senior engineers.

StaffEng: Careeer advice for Staff/Principal Engineers.

Kalzumeus: Great writings on software development and career advice.