Steve
Great synopsis. I liked the section where Mat described how compression kindof works. It now makes way more sense how images can look perceivably identical, but have drastically different data sizes.
I remember when having a custom font on the web meant you needed to create an image. Then using flash to embed those fonts...We've come a long way. Bram gives some really practical tips on how to use webfonts, what legal concerns you need to have, and how to get the most performance out of fonts. Great handbook to have!
OKRs are interesting. This book shows how others use these goals company-wide to meet their markets. Great overview.
Perfect! Totally explains and gives the code to make a webiste offline with Service Workers. Brilliantly done!
Gosh - remember the days when you needed to layout a website with tables? Floats? Well, no more! CSS Flexbox and Grid are here! Rachael does an amaxing job at showing what CSS flexbox and Grid are, how they fix common design problems, and even how to support backeards-compatability!
This isn't a knock on the book itself. Honestly, if I had read this when it first came out (2010) it would have been an easy 5! It's very practical, and super informative. However, many of the practices are outdated. For me, this book was more about fundamentals and a historical take on the Javascript performance.
Seriously. The most profound book on user testing. Steve gives you a script, clear examples, how to read your data... This book made me want to test!
Very comprehensive, albiet almost no code! It tells you exactly what you need to know in order to create a PWA today (no telling for tomorrow!)
It is really hard to make a UI feel like a human talking to another human – which is what every app essentially does! This book does a great job of showing the how to communicate to the user in the user's own language! Love!
Great overview! I was excited to read this book, to pick up some tricks, and have a small guide to give to others that want to start with the CLI.
Great book, but outdated. My favorite parts were the introduction where it describes how the JavaScript sausage is made. People throw around ‘TC39' and EcmaScript all of the time, but now I understand!
This is an excellent introduction to SVG and some of the crazy, awesomeness that SVG is. I am a avid listener of Shop Talk Show, CodePen Radio, a user of CodePen and CSS Tricks. I'm team Chris Coyier! Honestly I would have given this 5 stars if I hadn't already learned most of this by myself. Great book!
JavaScript is my language... But it is seriously quirky. I can only imagine trying to understand it coming from another programming language! This book does an excellent job advocating for JavaScript, while telling you the common pitfalls!
This DEEPLY changed my thinking. This book outlines and chronicles the Jobs Theory. Customers don't necessarily want to buy your product, but what to ‘hire for a job' in their life. Read this book if you do product development.
This book seriously made Git make sense. I had read dozens of articles, watch hours of videos, and screwwed up several projects until I found this. No other humans has explained Git as David has! Must read!
I'm a 9w1. Super insightful. It has truly changed the way I communicate and empathize with my wife (she read it too) and my co-workers. It was very revealing, and I learned so much about my own personality.
Kinda all fluff and dreams. The authors spend a LOT of time just talking about all of the benefits of remote work, trying to sell you to let your team work remote. I was expecting this book to be a lot more about the practicals on how to work remote! If you are looking to convince a manager to let you work remote,
This is the book I wanted years ago. It tells you how to pick out fonts, pair fonts, and make your information readable and legible to your users.