Designers and illustrators reveal the hidden gems in their hometowns.

How to make useful, friendly software for real people.

I just came home from a vow of silence at a meditation center in northern California.

Rails or Node, Ruby or Python, Vim or Sublime?

Back by popular demand! It's difficult to keep track of all of the great talks and conferences happening in our industry. Sometimes you may find out too late

Conferences are a great way to make friends and learn from experts. You can even try your hand at presenting on a topic.

As a mentor and teacher at Free Code Camp, I’m often playing the counselor. Countless people fret about finding a job. And often, it’s not…

Free, clear, and calm

In [part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/03/world-wide-web-not-wealthy-western-web-part-1/) of this article, we looked at where in the world the new entrants to the World Wide Web are, and some of the new technologies the standards community has…

It’s the eternal debate. Is a degree really necessary nowadays?

The short answ...

There are developers out there like me who struggles to step up his/her game.

We’ve all got a fixed 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. But in 2019, you can feel like you have more time every week by making different choices about how you allocate your hours. Here are 5 strategies.

Uncle Ben once told Peter Parker, “With great power comes great responsibility”. This quote applies to fellow programmers who are involved…

by Alex Vermeer and Jimmy Rintjema Why the hell can’t we get more done? We procrastinate. A lot. It sucks. We want to do it less. The procrastination equation, thanks to Piers Steel, ((Piers Steel, from the University of Calgary, […]

Jacob Schatz (@jakecodes) is a staff engineer over at GitLab and was kind enough to share how he conducts job interviews for technical positions and his

myNoise sets the standard for online background noise machines and interactive soundscapes.

Working from bed sounds comfortable, but in this post, we go over the three reasons why we should never work from bed, backed by science.

Sharing what I learned after being diagnosed with CTS

In our fast-paced “always on” digital culture, switching off is treated as something we could all do better at. But in practice, switching off doesn’t always work, and can actually just generate more stress and anxiety. So how can we navigate our life with…