Issue #63 · May 22, 2018

To be a top developer you have to build things!

“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow”

Best 7 links of week #20, 2018

To be a top developer you have to build things!

To be a top developer you have to build things!

You can only become a great developer by putting the effort in. Imagine for a moment — You can’t become fit physically by reading a lot about fitness... that's not how it works of course. In this article, you will find a lot of advice if you are looking for ideas to build new things.

Articles

New Programming Jargon

A fantastic collection of new programming jargon. How many of these words did you know already? How many did you already use on a daily basis?

🏎 Mario Kart: CSS 🏁

Interactive Mario Kart with CSS only. No JavaScript... for real! OK, if you don't believe us, check this Codepen out!

The Front-End Tooling Survey 2018

The results of the 2018 Front-End Tooling Survey are out! If you are curious to know what are the hottest frontend technologies such as CSS and JS frameworks, check out the results and analysis of the responses here.

New CSS Features That Are Changing Web Design

Today, the design landscape has changed completely. We’re equipped with new and powerful tools — CSS Grid, CSS custom properties, CSS shapes and CSS writing-mode, to name a few — that we can use to exercise our creativity. Zell Liew explains how.

Book of the week

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andrew Hunt

he Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process-taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users. It covers topics ranging from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse.