I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
For 15–20 years we’ve been looking at how big companies are solving their big problems, instead of learning how those of us with small problems (individuals and SMBs) best solve their small problems.
That’s our Occam’s razor why frontend devs know Bootcamp/Tailwind, jQuery/React, bundle/deploy, and have every 10-visitor site sit on all edge servers—but for whom HTML is div and CSS is broken.
“The simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.” — Jarrett Fuller
Based on my experiences in various frontend codebases that were written without a frontend expert on the team (including my own old projects 💩), I compiled a list of 9 most common signs of frontend code quality issues that affect users https://angelika.me/2024/04/13/9-signs-your-frontend-code-has-quality-issues/
Je suis à la recherche de mon prochain boulot! Je suis dev front-end / intégrateur CSS avec 14 ans d'expérience dans une petite entreprise sur des projets d'ampleurs et de natures très variées, donc assez polyvalent, avec un bon sens du détail et l'amour du travail bien fait. Je cherche plutôt un job en présentiel (ou mixte) dans la région genevoise, donc si vous entendez quelque chose, pensez à moi! 🤗
Hi friends. I haven't posted about it here much but I've been job searching for a few months now! I have about 5 years of experience as an accessibility engineer, performing QA, development, and consultation work primarily on the web with a smattering of native iOS. I'm seeking full-time or contract opportunities, either remote or in the #Austin area. My resume is available upon request. Boosts appreciated! 🙂 #FediHire#accessibility#a11y#javascript#web#NativeMobile#frontend#software#web
Some people say they don't want to join the Fediverse or Mastodon, because they think the UI sucks. As a front end developer, a designer-kind of a person who creates user interfaces, I agree. Most of the web clients on the Fedi are horrendous, even Mastodon by default. There's lots of room for improvement.
We should really focus on how to make it more pleasing to the eye, more modern and more pleasant. This should not be a nerd network, just for geeks to geek out. This is not IRC or BBS.
As long as Mastodon for instance looks like it's designed by a back end engineer, contains font-awesome icons, looks like 2010, and stuff like that, being open and free is not good reason enough for many. I'm not bashing it, Mastodon is not the worst out there, in fact in my honest opinion Mastodon user experience is far better than Akkoma or Calckey for example. It's also more accessible than many modern UIs, for example my visual impaired wife prefers the Vanilla Mastodon UI over my #BirdUI modifications, she has some small tiny improvements of her own like distinguishing the colors in the action buttons as they have no proper contrast in any of the default themes. But that's it. She likes it as it is. So it cannot be that bad. However, it could be better overall.
#OpenSource doesn't mean the product should look like it's created in a basement by a math teacher. For some people Mastodon UX is sufficient (it even is for me, I like it enough and it doesn't prevent me from using it), but it should be WORLD CLASS. I don't say the answer is #MastodonBirdUI but it should be something much more modern and minimal than the current default UI. Pixelfed's developer is a designer oriented, Pixelfed is indeed an example of an awesome Fediverse app experience throughout the web and apps. That is how it should be.
I'm looking for a frontend web developer who knows #WordPress, #WooCommerce and #Elementor for ongoing freelance work. The person who built my paysite isn't available any more. I have a generic understanding of WP and front-end, but the plugins are over my head and I don't have time to learn them.
(I put out a call a while back and got some interest, now in a position to follow up so if you've already reached out feel free to remind me!)
Which JavaScript framework for the web frontend is the smallest, fastest, and best overall? If it's not listed, please mention it as a comment and why 🧑💻 → pls boost this toot :BoostOK:
✨ Turn on document.designMode for in-browser spell-checking
Design mode essentially turns every element into a contenteditable region, which enables spelling and grammar checking and is also useful for experimenting with text changes