Level of Effort | Brad Frost

Get it shipped — building better relationships with Devs

This advice works both ways:

1. Collaboration
2. Communication
3. Respect

WTF is the Lean Web, anyways? | Go Make Things

Three principles:

1. Embrace the platform
2. Favor small, modular tools
3. Build a web for everyone

How to build lean efficient websites in 2023 | Go Make Things

1. Start with mostly static HTML.
2. Progressively enhance the dynamic parts.
3. Pick small, focused tools.

Wired.com: 20 years later | Stopdesign

Doug casts an eye back on the Wired redesign he worked on 20 years ago. It’s hard to overstate the impact this had on the adoption of web standards.

We’ve come a long way:

We’ve come so far since this redesign in 2002. We no longer trip ourselves up trying to fit everything above an imaginable fold. Designs respond to various screen sizes. Text is comfortably larger and screens display at a much higher resolution. We tend to give everything more breathing room.

Changing with the times · Chris Burnell

I think, with the sheer volume of functionality available to us nowadays on the front-end, it can be easy to forget how powerful and strong the functionality is that we get right off shelf with HTML. Yes, you read that right, functionality.