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9/12/2024
6 : 53

Finding balance

When I first started coding, I wanted everything to be perfect. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
8/21/2024
12 : 44

Landing a front-end job is hard

Hey there, fellow front-end dev 👋 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
6/3/2024
8 : 44

🔥 What is a full-stack framework?

There's been a lot of discussion in the web space lately on what a full-stack framework actually is. On one side there's the "traditional" full-stack frameworks like Laravel (PHP),
5/1/2024
15 : 4

🔥 The Modern Front End Developer

Front-end development has evolved a lot over the years. In the earlier days of the web you only really had to understand HTML and CSS to be a hireable front-end developer. Then we started adding more
3/27/2024
16 : 4

🔥 How to: Land a front-end job

Landing a front-end job is hard. We've had an open position at my company for about 3 weeks now, and it's gotten almost 100 applicants. That's a lot of competition, no matter how good of a
3/13/2024
16 : 14

🔥 TailwindCSS v4

If you've been following the newsletter for awhile, you know that I'm a big fan of TailwindCSS. And I'm not alone. In the 2023 State of CSS survey, Tailwind scored in the very top on both
3/6/2024
3 : 14

🔥 Escaping "Tutorial Hell"

If you're just starting out on your coding journey, it's tempting to follow a lot of tutorials. They show you what to code, they teach you the concepts, and you get to code along with them.
3/6/2024
2 : 34

🔥 Learning how to learn

Development is one of the fastest changing industries on the planet. There's always new languages, frameworks, libraries or tools coming out. Of course you're not expected to know all of these,