Tag: best practices

CSS Styleguides

I came across a couple of CSS guidelines while catching up with my feeds over the weekend.  Here they are:

  • cssguidelin.es – high-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS.
  • grvcoelho/css – opinionated CSS styleguide for scalable applications

How to Age Gracefully

Found this video in Jason Kottke’s blog:

Good advice all around.  The best one is from the 93 year old:

Don’t listen to other people’s advice.  Nobody knows what the hell they are doing.

Which I’ve heard before in Joe Rogan’s stand up comedy:

You know as much about what life is all about as anybody who’s ever lived ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DpdEmbNwGk

Doing Terrible Things To Your Code

a good programmer knows they have to do terrible things to their code. Do it because if you don’t, I guarantee you other people will, and when they do, they will either walk away or create a support ticket. I’m not sure which is worse.

Jeff Atwood