Hello Reader Most of us learn web development in this order. Make it work, make it look good, make it fast. The site comes out fine. It just isn't findable, and that's a separate skill not many tell you about. SEO. It's quietly one of the highest leverage things you can understand as a developer, because it's the difference between a site that exists and a site that gets found. The good news is that most of it is already in your hands. If you write clean, semantic HTML, you're doing more of...

Hello Reader Last edition of August, which means you've got a few days left to claim the summer was productive before anyone can check. Then September arrives with that back to school feeling, even for those of us who haven't sat in a classroom for a decade or two. It's a decent excuse for a reset. New notebook energy, a course picked back up, a project dusted off. Nothing about the calendar actually makes learning easier, but everyone starting again at once does help. We've been getting a...

Hello Reader Happy weekend! We've been thinking about how much of a dev career runs on other people. Not always in a networking-event, business-card kind of way. More like the person who answered your question in Discord at 11pm. The instructor whose course you didn't expect to still think about months later. The connection that turned into an interview that turned into an actual conversation. This week's edition has a bit of that thread running through it. Some familiar faces, some new ones,...