Web-Crunch Digest - Issue #133

Discover the web design trends, techniques, and tools that will define website and digital product design in 2019 — and beyond.

Last week, one of my students asked me what makes someone a good front-end engineer.
This is a highly subjective topic, but I’m happy to share my very opinionated perspective on this.
The least important skill for a front-end developer The least important skills for a front-end developer to have are technical ones.
The nuances of JavaScript. How to use a particular library, framework, or build tool. How the cascade in CSS works.

A language so powerful that we have to stop ourselves from using all its features.

I’m on Team Firefox.

It addresses the biases and behaviors that hamper innovation.

When you’re putting together a build process for a site, it’s so dang useful to look at other people’s processes. I ran across Andrew Welch’s “An

Feature Policy can help protect your site from third parties using APIs that have security and privacy implications, and also from your own team adding outdated APIs or poorly optimized images. Find out how.

Five ambient webpage backgrounds created using the HTML5 Canvas API and jwagner’s Simplex Noise library.