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Andy Adams released a book for aspiring WordPress freelancers. It’s meant to take a lot of the guesswork and the roadblocks that many folks often hit when making the decision to fly solo and rely on WordPress development for a stable source of work and income.

Aside from being included in it (and Andy being an all-around great guy), I want to share the book with y’all because WordPress and freelancing are two topics I care deeply about, particularly because … Read article

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React 16.6.0 was released October 2018 and with it came goodies that spice up the way we can develop with React. We’re going to cover what I consider the best of those new goodies with examples of how we can put them to use in our work.

React.memo() avoids unnecessary re-rendering

There are situations where a component re-renders, even if neither its state nor its props changed. That adds up and can be an expensive operation.

Here’s an example of … Read article

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This resonated pretty strongly with people:

I’d watch a documentary series of developers giving a tour of their codebases.

— Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) January 6, 2019

I think I was watching some random Netflix documentary and daydreaming that the subject was actually something I was super interested in: a semi-high-quality video deep dive into different companies codebases, hearing directly from the developers that built and maintain them.

Horror stories might also be interesting. Particularly if they involve perfect storm scenarios … Read article

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Let’s say you were going to design the easiest way to deploy a static site you can possibly imagine. If I was tasked with that, I’d say, well, it would deploy whenever I push to my master branch, and I’d tell it what command to run to build my site. Or maybe it has its own CLI where I can kick stuff out with as I choose. Or, you know what, maybe it’s so … Read article

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For some reason, I’ve lately been thinking a lot about what it takes to break into the web design industry and learn CSS. I reckon it has something to do with Keith Grant’s post earlier this month on a CSS mental model where he talks about a “common core for CSS”:

We need common core tricks like this for CSS. Not “tricks” in the old sense (like how to fake a gradient border), but mental patterns: ways to frame the

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Many of us follow @horse_js on Twitter. Twenty-one thousand of us, to be exact. That horse loves stirring up mischief by taking people’s statements out of context. It happened to me a few times and almost got me in trouble.

I wonder how many people hate CSS because their experience with it

— Horse JS (@horse_js) September 23, 2018

I wonder how many people hate CSS because their experience with it is overriding bootstrap.

In completely unrelated news, guess what

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