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9 Years of CFE.dev
Tips on Migrating from Arc to Zen
Is Generative Artificial Intelligence Useful? And Moral?
Your DevRel Questions Answered. Finally!
Prioritize People Over Pay, Position and Product
Living and Working in a Bizarro World
My Predictions for Tech in 2025: Chaos Reigns
Grading my 2024 Predictions for Developers
2024 Year In Review
Community is a Tamagotchi
Navigating the Buzzwords of Frontend Development
The Jamstacked Newsletter has a New Home
TheJam.dev 2024 - A Free, 2-day Virtual WebDev Conference
What is Jamstack in 2024?
What to Expect for Developers in 2024 (My Predictions)
Updating Your Netlify Functions to 2.0
Building a (Virtual) Events Site
6 Years and 180 (Virtual) Events Later...
Adding a Mailing List Subscription with Mailjet and Netlify Functions
Lifting Off with Astro 🚀
Is Jamstack Officially Finished?
The Art of the CFP: Getting Your Session Accepted
Full-stack Web Apps Without React
The Price Developers Pay for Loving Their Tools Too Much
Can DevRel Be Done Without Twitter?
Is "GraphQL Mesh" the Next Big Thing?
What Netlify's Acquisition of Gatsby Really Means
The State of Developer Conferences
Getting Started with Serverless Edge - Exploring the Options
Lessons Learned from Having My Identity Stolen
What is Jamstack in 2023?
Does the Serverless Edge Live Up to the Hype?
Moving from Jekyll to Astro
When an SSG Isn't Just an SSG, What Is It?
What is the Jamstack in 2022?
Goodbye Mobile Dev Weekly
Developer Communities You Need to Join Today!
Tips For Running Your First Virtual Conference
Thinking in Jamstack
What Is the Jamstack in 2021?
The Best Kept Secret for Free Developer Education
Submitting Netlify Forms Using JavaScript
Tips for Running Virtual Meetups and Events
The J in JAMstack Does Not Stand for React (or Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc.)
Is JAMstack All Branding and Little Substance?
Thoughts on the State of JS Survey
Why I am Excited to Join Stackbit!
Saying Goodbye to Telerik and Progress
The Evolution of Web Content Management
What's Wrong with the Tech Interview Process?
Markdown is Markup and Other Confusions Around JAMStack
Understanding OAuth Authorization Flows
Don't Let Your Tools Define You as a Developer
Getting Started with Offline Data in Web Apps Pt. 3
So You Want to Run a Developer Conference
Knowing the Web's History is Critical to Its Present and Future
How to Write a Great Conference Talk Proposal from Conference Organizers
Technical Debt is Not Just Technical
Getting Started with Offline Data in Web Apps Pt. 2
Getting Started with Offline Data in Web Apps Pt. 1
Confused by JavaScript's const? Me too!
Using Netlify to the Fullest
Should I Build It?
A Developer Career Doesn't Have to Be Linear
3 Tips for Writing Great Tech Posts
Quick Tips and Tricks for Hugo Development
Building and Deploying a JAMStack site with Stackbit
A Fresh Look at Netlify CMS (Part 2)
Promoting Perceived Performance with Prefetching
There's More Than One Way to Become a Developer
A Fresh Look at Netlify CMS (Part 1)
Some Things You May Have Missed in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey (2019 Edition)
Want to Speak at Conferences in 2019? I'll Help Review Your CFP Submissions
14 of My Favorite Developer Blog Posts in 2018
Is Today the Best Time to be a Developer? No...but We're Getting Better.
What I Learned from a Year of Running Free Developer Events
What Developers Should Know from Microsoft Build
GitHub Pages Now Support HTTPS - Use It!
Getting Started with Serverless Using Kinvey FlexServices
Running SSL on localhost
Some Things You May Have Missed in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey
There's No Such Thing as a Full Stack Developer
Conforming to JavaScript Code Styles
A License to Confuse
What are the Must Follow Resources for Developers?
Why Web App Performance Matters and What to Watch Out For - An Interview with Tammy Everts
From Ice Skating to Bootcamp to Full Stack Dev - An Interview with Aimee Knight
Resolve to catch up on some great presentations in 2018! 🎆
Best Music of 2017
Getting Started with Kinvey mBaaS - A Simple Vue App
Getting Started with Kinvey mBaaS - Pulling Data Anonymously
From Cordova to Bots to Serverless - An Interview with Brian Leroux
That Topic Has Already Been Covered!
Changing Roles as a Developer Can Be Scary
Developers Need to Start Paying Attention to Licenses
Developing JavaScript in 2017 (Recording)
5 Options for Free Stock Images
Developer Events in Fall 2017
What the Web Owes Flash
Update Fails on ffi Install in Ruby
Best Songs of 2017 So Far
Knowing Your Blind Spots
The Slow Decline of Email
Thoughts on the Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
Working with Static Sites Officially Available from O'Reilly
Troll Culture Goes Mainstream
The Current State of Development
Can Machine Learning Potentially Stop Internet Trolls?
Corporate Culture is Pervasive and Resilient
A Web Developer Is...
Developers, It's ok Not to be Right About Everything
Twitter Tries to Rein in Abuse
Ad Blocking on the Rise?
How Static Site Generators Work
The Continued Failure of the Web as an Information Platform
The Future of Interaction?
The Impact of Bullying
The Constant Stream of Tech Layoffs
Heavyweight
Rising Stars for Static Site Generators in 2016
The Web's Failure as an Information Platform
On Remote Working
Thoughts on the Shrinking PC Market
Own Your Home on the Web
Front-End and Mobile Development Sites to Follow
Working with Static Site Generators
Resources for First Time Speakers
Did We Avoid the Ad Block Apocalypse?
How to Speak at Fluent
My Top 10 Songs of 2016
The Content Model of the Web is Broken - Part 2
The Impact of Negativity Bias
Top 10 Developer Posts of 2016
Working the Writing Muscle
More Advanced Jekyll/Liquid Template Techniques
On The Mobile Web in Mobile Web Weekly
What is Linkbait?
Which Static Site Generator Should You Choose?
Hostile to Documentation?
5 Common Problems with Technical Articles
Best Music of 2015
Enough with the Developer Surveys Already
Is the Native Mobile App Ecosystem Worth Saving?
Some Advanced Jekyll/Liquid Template Techniques
Get Started with Static Site Generators
Which Free Code Editor Is Right For You?
Picking the Right Speakers for Conferences
Is the Web Really in Trouble?
The Web is Boring
Tips for Writing for a Tech Audience
Why are Web Developers Hostile to Audio?
Jekyll Versus the Competition
Tools for Writing and Converting Markdown
Building Static Sites with Node.js and Wintersmith
A Guide to Building Static Sites with Jekyll
Can Web Audio be Useful?
Comparing Static Site Engines
Patterns of Development
The Content Model of the Web is Broken
Best Music of 2014
Dealing with an Unhappy Community
Boston Festival of Indie Games 2014
Running Great Technical Conferences
The Best Features in ECMAScript 6?
Starting Anew