Hey there 👋
I hope you all have a fantastic start into this new year! We spent a few days up in the mountains with the family and some friends. Cooking, eating, snowboarding, teaching my kids to ski, some board games and not much else to do. It was absolutely lovely and a much needed break.
Today is my first day in the office again and while I’m catching up on a lot of things, I thought I could as well just post some more of the links that have accumulated over the last weeks.
Wish you all the best for 2025! ✌️
Design / Development
👨🎓 Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds
We used to do a customer survey here and there in the past, but I always tried not to put too much weight into the results. Jason Cohen wrote about why the wisdom of the crowds is not working when you are looking for innovation and I totally agree with him.
A Smart Bear – Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds
📚 How Bob built his Books Page
I love those bookshelf type of sites – I still intend to build my own on here, someday. In here, Bob Monsour wrote about how he built his.
Bob Monsour – How I built the Books page
🪄 12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades
Some great CSS one-liners by Stephanie Eckles that you can use to reduce your dependency on JavaScript to enhance the user experience.
Modern CSS – 12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades
✨ 5 more CSS snippets every front-end developer should know
If the 12 techniques above weren’t enough, Adam Argyle collected some more that you should know.
web.dev – 5 CSS-snippets every front-end developer should know in 2024
📚 Authors together
A Book Apart closed shop in 2024 and the licenses for the books went back to the original authors, many of which re-published the books somewhere online. This semi-official directory collects all the places where you can find them.
📖 Book: Approachable Open Source
I just read and liked the foreword and first chapter of this book about open source software by Brian Muenzenmeyer. Unfortunately physical shipping is US & Canada only, but the book is released online as it’s written.
Other / Random
🙌 Six years under my own steam
Mark Howells-Mead shared his experiences of being self-employed for six years now, and taking on 100% of the company from his partner. Congrats, Mark!
Permanent Tourist – Six years under my own steam
Cheers 🙌