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Timeless Web Dev Articles

Pavithra Kodmad asked people for recommendations on what they thought were some of the most timeless articles about web development that have changed their perspective in some way. Fun! I’m gonna scour the thread and link up my favorites (that are actually articles, although not all of them are super directly related to web dev).

  • (Old?) Richard Gabriel’s “The Rise of Worse is Better”
  • (2000) John Allsopp’s “A Dao of Web Design”
  • (2010) Nicole Sullivan’s “The Media Object Saves Hundreds of Lines of Code”
  • (2010) Ethan Marcotte’s “Responsive Web Design”
  • (2011) fantasi’s “about:csswg”
  • (2011) Trent Walton’s “Content Choreography”
  • (2012) Nicolas Gallagher’s “About HTML semantics and front-end architecture”
  • (2012) Bret Victor’s “Learnable Programming”
  • (2012) Jason Fried’s “Give it five minutes”
  • (2013) David Nolen’s “Comparative Literate Programming”
  • (2013?) Barry Smith’s “Motherfucking Website”
  • (2013?) Justin Jackson’s “Words”
  • (2014) Eileen Webb’s “Training the CMS”
  • (2014) Guillermo Rauch’s “7 Principles of Rich Web Applications”
  • (2014) Heydon Pickering’s “Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls”
  • (2015) Frank Chimero’s “The Web’s Grain”
  • (2015) André Staltz’s “The introduction to Reactive Programming you’ve been missing”
  • (2015) Brad Frost’s “Just”
  • (2015?) Cap Watkins’ “The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck”
  • (2016) Adam Morse’s “The Veil of Ignorance”
  • (2016?) Stuart Langridge’s “Everyone has JavaScript, right?”
  • (2017) Marcy Sutton’s “Accessibility is a Civil Right”
  • (2017) Adam Wathan’s “CSS Utility Classes and ‘Separation of Concerns'”
  • (2018) Sarah Dayan’s “In Defense of Utility-First CSS”
  • (2019) Matthew Ström’s “Learning How to See”
  • (2019) Brad Frost’s “Frontend Design, React, and a Bridge Over the Great Divide”

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