Coding is more about communicating than computing.

New data: the best predictor of how quickly people learned to code wasn’t math or cognitive ability, but language aptitude.

Math skill was almost irrelevant. Coding is mastering a language, not numbers.

nature.com/articles/s41598-020-6… t.co/93pcDWX7gU

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CSS is !important
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I have decided to leave Sandhills Development and am in-search of my next great work opportunity. If you think I’d be a good fit in your company, I’d love to hear from you.

alexstandiford.com/resume

Browsing the web, 2021

I’m wearing a fitted sheet like someone who went to the Met Gala.

HTML is a database

I apologize for writing a complicated program.
I didn’t have time to write a simple one.

So if your argument for shipping a heavy SPA is that the initial slow page load will be worth it because subsequent page loads will be faster, I’m just not going to see that benefit

every generation really does invent webrings

normalizeLongAndDescriptiveFunctionNamesInJavaScript

The joy of WordPress is that there are so many plugins and themes to choose from.

The agony of WordPress is that there are so many plugins and themes to choose from.

I can’t unsee this now.

A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing ow.ly/ITXD3 (New blog post) t.co/R27UraX3Fb

✨ New post!

I wrote about my favorite HTML element you might not have heard of: <dl>

You’ve probably got some use cases for this one!
benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/

AWS: “Get bankrupt scaling your infra”

Salesforce: “Ugly UX for sales team”

Intercom: “Support system with enigmatic billing”

Slack: “Reduce company productivity with GIFs”

Notion: “Knowledge-base with load times” twitter.com/theandreboso/status/…

JavaScript & web developers guess the problem here? 🧠

Graphic design has rules, and they work.

Daily standup? How about daily lie down in a bed and close your eyes for a few minutes.

The power of data