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Rather than a bunch of individual “In Case You Missed It” tweets, I thought I’d just do one big yearly semi-comprehensive recap of the web community things that I contributed to this year. Enjoy!
Tool or Die Video #
If you only watch one web development talk I’ve done this year, make it this one. It’s a soup to nuts talk about a variety of topics and will show you how to build a future-proof, performance driven website from start to finish.
Related Blog Post: Tool or Die, a Web Developer’s Workflow
Busyness Project #
Related Blog Post: You Should Follow Fewer People on Twitter
fixed-sticky Project #
A position: sticky polyfill and Filament Group project.
Modernizr :target Feature Test Blog Post #
A blog post about creating a feature test for the :target pseudo-class resulted in a feature test added to Modernizr.
A Tweet Highlight #
If you use JavaScript to solve page layout problems your users are going to have a bad time.
— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) June 21, 2013Performance and Responsive Web Design Video #
This presentation was somewhat of a response to a few of the “RWD is slow” posts floating around. Related:
If you mistakenly believe that “RWD sites are too large for mobile” try replacing that thought with “sites are too large.”
— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) October 28, 2013Fumbling with Social Media Blog Post #
A bit of self-research looking at my own use of Social Media and struggle with the balancing act of self promotion.
Impostor Syndrome Video #
Don’t be afraid to share what you know.
A Tweet Highlight #
In June 2013, Opera Mini/Mobile/Android had 251M unique users. No big deal. That’s only New York City times 30.
— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) July 29, 2013A Tweet Highlight #
Free bad idea of the day: “It’s like the Million Dollar Homepage but it’s responsive.”
— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) July 23, 2013A Tweet Highlight #
Browser Vendors should be embarrassed at how slow they’ve been to implement something for responsive images.
— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) May 22, 2013Reluctant to put this one on here because I felt like it was a little too snarky (even for me), but disappointly enough it’s been 7 months since that tweet and we still don’t have consensus.
NebraskaJS #
NebraskaJS added over 150 new members to the group and had its most successful meetup yet—86 JavaScripters learning about AngularJS! In 2013, we had 7 meetings averaging 65 registrations per meeting (not including our awesome Christmas party).
Open Source #
Excluding Filament Group projects.
- Filed a ticket that got the minimium viewport size changed in Chrome:
Looks like they changed Chrome’s minimum viewport size from 400px to 320px. Great improvement! https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=275686
— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) September 20, 2013 - A crusade against using
placeholderpolyfills resulted in a contribution to html5please. - A crusade against vendor prefixes on
border-radiusresulted in contributions to csslint and jquery-mobile. - Added the NebraskaJS logo to logo.js.
Mini-Projects #
- Published a “Read in X Minutes” plugin for Jekyll.
- AnchorsAway, a bookmarklet to find and display anchor links to content on pages.
- Worked with John Hobbs on Domain Swap, a Chrome Extension to easily switch between domains and keep the URL path.
- Worked with Matt Steele to publish an updated retina-friendly banner for the I Live in Omaha project.
This content originally appeared on Zach Leatherman and was authored by Zach Leatherman
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