Tinned Fruit Missives January 2018
Happy New Year! As I sit here in my poorly heated home office, with the low Edinburgh sun arcing in through the window, I present some end-of-year summaries along with the usual front-end dev and product engineering links this month.
This edition marks a year since the first Tinned Fruit Missives. I’m considering a few small changes, but I’d love to hear about what you have and haven’t enjoyed. Just reply to this message and let me know!
All the best for a rewarding 2018,
– Jim
The State of JS 2017 survey results
https://stateofjs.com/2017/introduction/
While you’ll need to take these surveys with a EU mountain-worth of salt, I find some of the findings intriguing. Not because I use it to inform what I should be interested in, but as an insight into how developers think about the language and it’s many ecosystems and sub-communities. There’s as much to be gleaned from the questions that are asked as the survey results themselves. Please don’t use this to make technology decisions, though.
So, you learned JavaScript - now what? - Christian Heilmann
https://medium.com/@codepo8/so-you-learned-javascript-now-what-63f7363979a
Christian offers a welcome alternative to ‘Which framework should I learn?’ school of JavaScript education, focusing on furthering fundamentals, community involvement and learning materials.
Cascading Web Design - Hui Jing
https://24ways.org/2017/cascading-web-design/
Cascading Web Design is not really a new concept, but a natural extension of the principals behind responsive design. CSS feature queries allow a much more fine-grained way of adapting to the capabilities of the device being used. We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this kind of approach as rapidly evolving, evergreen browsers are now the norm.
Some other World Wide Web hyperlinks I have enjoyed this month
- Do I need a design system? - Inayaili de León Persson
- Stop Playing Tetris (With Teams, Sprints, Projects, and Individuals) - John Cutler
- Here’s what people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995 - Chris Brandrick
- Google Maps’s Moat - Justin O’Beirne
- Why Design Systems Fail - Una Kravets
- What happens when you visit ft.com? - Samuel Parkinson - I always enjoy reading about rather unusual web architectures
- A recap of front-end development in 2017 - Trey Huffine
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Tinned Fruit Missives is a monthly newsletter about web product development and front-end practices published by Jim Newbery, an independent consultant from Edinburgh in Scotland.
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