Demystifying Public Speaking
A new book by Lara Hogan includes some of my favorite advice about public speaking: As you stand on the stage, remember: your audience is anticipating you’ll be successful at giving this talk. To them,...
View ArticleResilient Web Design
Jeremy Keith released a new book, for free, on the web only: This is not a handbook. It’s more like a history book. Direct Link to Article — Permalink… Read article The post Resilient Web Design...
View ArticleClean Code JavaScript
Inspired by Robert C. Martin's book Clean Code, Ryan McDermott put together a repo with some software engineering best practices as they apply to JavaScript in particular. The repo has tons of great...
View ArticleCreating a Book Cover Using JavaScript and p5.js
I recently published a book and an interactive course called Coding for Visual Learners. It teaches coding to beginners from scratch using the widely popular JavaScript programming language and the...
View ArticleServer-Side Visualization With Nightmare
This is an extract from chapter 11 of Ashley Davis’s book Data Wrangling with JavaScript now available on the Manning Early Access Program. I absolutely love this idea as there is so much data...
View ArticleForeword for CSS In Depth
Keith Grant recently released a brand new book on CSS: CSS in Depth. If you're looking for a book focused specifically on learning CSS, you've found it. I was happy to write the foreword for it, which...
View ArticleCurrently Reading: Progressive Web Apps by Jason Grigsby
I’ve been reading Jason Grigsby’s new book on progressive web apps this past week and it’s exciting. Jason explains what PWAs are and how they work while while doing a bang-up job covering the business...
View ArticleLaying the Foundations
Here’s a new book by Andrew Couldwell all about design systems and I'm looking forward to reading the book because it looks like his experience will offer a bunch of insightful thoughts and advice....
View ArticleDebugging CSS
High five to Ahmad Shadeed for releasing his new book, Debugging CSS. I think that’s a neat angle for a book on CSS. There are a ton of books on the general subject of CSS already, so not that they...
View ArticleSo you want to self-publish books and courses on programming
John Resig and I recently self-published our book on GraphQL. There are tons of how-tos for self-publishing a book, or even online classes, but very little in the way of why you would want to, or...
View ArticleComputer Science Unleashed, Chapter 1: Connections
This article is actually an excerpt from Wladston Ferreira Filho‘s new book Computer Science Unleashed. This book is about all the groundbreaking technologies behind the World Wide Web. We might even...
View ArticleThe Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I eBook (PDF and EPUB)
When I wrote the “book” The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I, I put “book” in quotes because there wasn’t anything terribly book-like about it. The only way you could read it was online, logged into this...
View ArticleResponsible JavaScript
High five to Jeremy on the big release of Responsible JavaScript on A Book Apart. There is a lot of talk about how the proliferation of JavaScript has had a negative impact on the web, but now we have...
View ArticleGreat (and Free!) Web Development Books You Can Get Online
Right after “Where is the best place to learn?” perhaps the most commonly asked question I hear from folks getting into code is “What web development books should I get to learn?” Well, consider this...
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