There, I said it. Of all the engineers I’ve met over the years only one has come close to what that title, full-stack engineer, implies: the ability to easily navigate the back-end and front-end with a senior level of expertise. For the rest of us though, it’s simply not possible to do both. But hold up a sec, what...

Zach Leatherman: We may be trapped in a web of competing formats, open and closed, standardized and proprietary, single vendor controlled and community driven, available for all and tightly held in app stores and behind walled gardens. We’re trapped in a continuum of open and closed continuously exploited for profit...

Over the past week a lot of friends have shared this story by Anthony Bourdain, supposedly his first published piece, called Don’t Eat Before Reading This and in true Bourdainian style it’s lovely as all hell: I love the sheer weirdness of the kitchen life: the dreamers, the crackpots, the refugees, and the...

I had coffee with an internet friend the other day for the first time and I asked her what she was reading. She immediately started talking about a book set in Texas that she had fallen completely in love with but couldn’t recommend because it was written for people from Texas. There was something that was...

I was in a meeting the other day and it dawned on me that it would be much easier to get through it if I was drunk. The conversation was a little too slow, both of us seemed to push and pull our way through the meeting as neither of us really wanted to be there – he was clearly bored and I felt that I could...

The other day I read Jenny Odell’s piece about how to do nothing – it’s all about the value of free, public spaces like gardens – and since then I’ve been mulling over this part especially: …those spaces which are not seen as commercially productive are always under threat, since what they “produce” can’t be...

I love what Jeremy has to say here about frameworks and the web: I’ve come to believe that the goal of any good framework should be to make itself unnecessary ...and how that ultimately relates to the AMP project: If the AMP project existed in order to create a web where AMP was no longer needed, I think I could get...

Here’s a note I made in the most recent CSS-Tricks Newsletter which, yes, you absolutely should sign up to as quickly as humanly possible. We take the latest and greatest news from the web design community and deliver it straight to your inbox every week. This holiday weekend I’ve been learning how to make Twitter...

If you want to be a good writer then you can’t worry about the numbers. The stats, the dashboards, the faves, likes, hearts and yes, even the claps, they all lead to madness and, worst of all in my opinion, bad writing. To become a good writer you need to get comfortable without third party scripts on your website,...

I wrote a quick thing the other day for CSS-Tricks all about the backdrop-filter CSS property which, although not particularly well supported today, highlights just how powerful CSS is becoming. backdrop-filter allows us to add a filter to the background of an element such as blurring it or changing its saturation...

I love this piece by Chappell Ellison so much; she looks at design criticism from a different point of view: Universities teach you how to give criticism. They’ve been doing it for centuries. They supply all sorts of texts so that you can cough up fancy words and names to support your argument. But the thing is, no...

A wonderful new piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye West, Michael Jackson, and celebrity: ...[Kanye] is a god, though one born of a different time and a different need. Jackson rose in the last days of enigma and wonder; West, in an accessible age, when every fuck is a tweet and every defecation a status update. And...