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    Wes Bos

    wesbos.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007

    Wes Bos, a web developer, writes about JavaScript, CSS and tooling, and sells and gives away web development courses.

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    What HN says

    Commenters often recommend his JavaScript, React, flexbox and grid courses for beginners and praise his regional pricing for countries with lower purchasing power.

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    38HN people shared it
    54linked in comments
    390story points
    May 2021last shared
    2013people per year2021

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    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • chrismorganMay 2020

      Looking at the screenshots and the CSS in question, and presuming that before it just wasn’t specifying fonts at all, I prefer the “before” result if I’m the consumer, mostly because I like the fonts I set in my browser, and consider Inter and Incosolata a slight regression. Also most of the other styles I disagree with; capping the width and reducing the line-height for headings is about all I actually agree with in there.

      But really I think that if this is all you want to change with org-mode HTML output, it must export pretty decent HTML. (I’m not familiar with it.)

      (Analysis of the things I particularly don’t like: 1.6 is too large a line-height; I prefer #000 to #444, though I’d settle for #222; image should use max-width instead of width, and have height: auto added, and what’s with the 700px instead of 900px, especially if you’re not going to block and centre it?; border-radius on images seems a bad idea; I dislike gratuitous fiddling with ::selection colours—only touch it if you have actual brand colours that you’re making it align with, like https://wesbos.com/, and be cautious even in that, as is demonstrated in the .highlight on that page which thwarts selection styling.)

    • marpodomarpNov 2018

      I'm personally a big fan of Frontend Masters: https://frontendmasters.com. I've found it to be one of the most comprehensive resources for web development out there, especially for front-end work. I think it's a great starting point for any prospective web dev, especially if you're keen on learning some crucial JS concepts.

      Once you dive a bit into the fundamentals, you can also check out Wes Bos's suite of courses: https://wesbos.com/courses/. His React tutorial is definitely my favorite one out there.

    • shubham_sinhaNov 2018

      https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web

      Follow following Youtube channels:
      1. FreeCodeCamp: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ
      2. The New Boston : https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston/featured
      3. Ben Award : https://www.youtube.com/user/99baddawg/featured

      Outside Youtube:
      1. Wes Bos : https://wesbos.com/
      2. Udemy : https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/
      3. CSS Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/
      4. Egghead: http://egghead.io

      Etc etc

    • rafaelmAug 2020

      As one person living in one of those countries with greatly reduced purchase power, I really appreciate the way Wes Bos[1] has done it for his courses (I've bought a couple of them).

      He's got an episode on his podcast on how he implemented it [2].

      It does sound like some work and I'm not saying you should discount or give away your work though.

      [1]https://wesbos.com/
      [2] https://syntax.fm/show/233/hasty-treat-purchasing-power-parity

    • cjCamelOct 2018

      All of the following cost money but are good:

      Wes Bos (https://wesbos.com/courses/) and Scott Talinksi (https://www.leveluptutorials.com/) have some great modern JavaScript courses, most of which require understanding of coding and the basics of web dev.

      For everything else Pluralsight (https://pluralsight.com) is pretty comprehensive.

    • imauldApr 2018

      I've been doing his React course and it's been very helpful so far. I have no reason to believe his other course aren't just as good:

      http://wesbos.com/courses/

      NOTE: Some of his courses are paid. The plain JS course is free though. However, I paid for the React course and feel it was very worth it.

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