Mark Otto

I really loved Mark Otto's sentiment here — design and development aren't separate jobs like, say, deep-sea oil drilling and copyright lawyering are. We're all working on the same spectrum with an increasing amount of overlap. http://markdotto.com/2013/04/22/designer-developer-spectrum/

There's definitely room for specialisation but our work is so much richer when we learn about the full stack. If you want to know more about design — just ask a designer :). We don't bite, we've just been a bit lazy with learning resources recently. HackDesign is a great start but the design community are well aware that learning to design at the moment is a mix of formal education, figuring shit out over years of making mistakes and a sprinkling of black magic. There's no Railscast to grok typography, and that sucks. We're working on it though :)

1. Please do not import external resources from Google Fonts if you don’t have to. (Hint: You never really have to.)

2. If you want to use as little CSS as possible, simply use `sans-serif`. Otherwise try this font stack: http://markdotto.com/2018/02/07/github-system-fonts/

2. Fira Sans is actually quite nice, but please do not use `font-weight`s below `400` for continuous text. That’s really hard to read.

3. Since only the `300` weight is imported, the entire text will be thin – even headlines and `strong`.

4. Please leave the link text underlines for accessibility: https://webaim.org/techniques/hypertext/link_text#underlining

bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com did a better job.

Here is my list of solo developer blogs. Usually they are on topic. This does not include personal blogs I follow that happen to be developers.

@mdo (Bootstrop) - http://markdotto.com/

Keith Cirkel - https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/

Coding – Corbin's Treehouse - https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog

Aaditya Purani – Ethical Hacker - https://aadityapurani.com/

Ben Balter - http://ben.balter.com/

fulldecent - https://privacylog.blogspot.com

Orange - http://blog.orange.tw/

Cocoa with Love - http://www.cocoawithlove.com/

Mark Otto - http://markdotto.com/

Moxie Marlinspike's Blog - http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/

hueniverse - http://hueniverse.com/

Miscellaneous technical stuff:

- https://danluu.com/

- https://blog.jessfraz.com/

- https://adamwathan.me/

- https://jvns.ca/

- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/

- https://dankim.org/

- https://mtlynch.io/

- https://rgz.ee/

- https://markdotto.com/

- https://thorstenball.com/

- https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/writing/

- https://lukesmith.xyz/ - Quirky minimalist linux & free software stuff. I don't agree with many of his opinions but his rants are entertaining + offer a refreshing view on certain things.

Non-technical:

- https://bernoid.com/

Hi Nick! Thanks for making this, I'm going to add it to a project right now.

One quick note -- it'd be cool if you had a big "find me on Github" button near the top, just for convenience. And so that people understand right away that it is a project they can easily download and mess around with.

You could even go for something snazzy like an unofficial Github watch or fork button:

http://www.markdotto.com/2011/11/26/introducing-unofficial-github-buttons/

And seriously, why not a responsive design instead of having 3 different versions of the same site (normal, mobile, mini)?

Checkout Twitter Bootstrap 2 (uut next week) or Foundation. It will make your live so much easier, and the site will be a lot more readable.

http://www.markdotto.com/2012/01/24/bootstrap-2-ready-for-testing-and-feedback/

and

http://foundation.zurb.com/