A collection of web development websites, tools, hacks and cheat sheets that helped me throughout my career
Yeah, yeah. “HTML, CSS and JS is everything you’ll ever need”(on the frontend at least, unless you want some really buggy code on the backend). But sometimes you want a shortcut. Or maybe you want to learn something, or optimize your workflow.
I’ll start with my path. Life is an open world roleplaying game, it’s a sandbox, everyone finds their own path. Learning anything is the same, there’s no path to it. You’ll have to find your own. But I’ll show you mine. Some tricks before you go about learning anything new.
- Admit what you don’t know, it’s easier to learn that way.
- Accept that you won’t be great at it from the start
- You’re not an impostor if you get hired, nor are you the best. But you can be the best at it with enough practice.
- Try, fail, try, fail, try, fail et infinitum - Clock cycles are cheap, the most expensive thing is your attention and focus. Try not to get bothered when you can’t solve a problem you’re facing. Take a break, it’s most likely your brain needs some time to process it. Go drink some water, take a walk, touch some grass.
- Don’t take yourself too seriously. We’re all silly little squishy human beings, too fragile to explore space, too scared to face our own existence. Make the most of the time you have in this corporeal state of being. Who knows what lies ahead of it.
I hope this helps you. Truly.
My path
The websites I wondered about until getting my first job.
- W3Schools(and a lot of youtube videos) is where I went to learn how to build websites using PHP and JQuery. They have a lot of things now(AI, ML, DBs), their library is ever-growing. I didn’t get too much out of it, as I was focusing on passing my math class back then (10th grade).
- Bootstrap is one of the technologies that shaped my view of the internet, I didn’t want to bother with CSS for the most part, I wanted to build some simple projects that looked decent,
- The odin project - is what got me into web dev as a profession, I was thinking that there must be more to this than I could gather, TOP showed me how vast this world wide web really is. How many resources there are. How many great people are out there teaching and preaching their skills.
Resources
Illustrations
- Open source illustrations: https://undraw.co/illustrations
- Figma open source icons
- Illustrations with other licenses