What Is Developer Advocacy? (2025 Edition)

By Chris Coyier on

I thought Ashley Willis did an excellent job explaining the role in What Is Developer Advocacy? (2025 Edition). We’re still here to serve developers. And we’re still doing the messy, meaningful work of bridging the gap between what a company thinks developers want and what developers actually need. I liked the perspective that it’s actually better for […]

You’re not a front-end developer until you’ve…

By Chris Coyier on

A fun list post from Nic Chan where you check off the funny/sad/proud/weird things we do as front-end developers. I don’t know if a higher score is better, but it certainly means you’ve been around the block. I doubt you’ll be able to resist poking around Nic’s site, it’s really fun.

Cursed Knowledge

By Chris Coyier on

Fun idea from the team at Immich: Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew. Stuff like: Fetch requests in Cloudflare Workers use http by default, even if you explicitly specify https, which can often cause redirect loops.

The Height Enigma

By Chris Coyier on

You might as well really understand height and Josh Comeau has your back here. It’s really quite different than width and perhaps less intuitive. Plus when grid and flexbox get involved, things change.