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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