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Frontend — How Should Designers Learn To Code? Git, HTML/CSS, Engineering Principles (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine

How Should Designers Learn To Code? Git, HTML/CSS, Engineering Principles (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine

In [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/03/designers-code-terminal-text-editors-part-1/), Paul explained the basics of the terminal, shared a few productivity hacks to get you started, and how to choose a code editor. In this part, he’ll continue with the topics of version control (Git), HTML and CSS, semantic code, and a brief introduction to some key engineering principles.

PHPaul HanaokaPaul Hanaoka·March 25, 2020Frontend
AI & ML — Post: Scrapinghub, Fauna, Sisu, Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, Triplebyte, Stream - High Scalability -

Post: Scrapinghub, Fauna, Sisu, Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, Triplebyte, Stream - High Scalability -

Who's Hiring? * Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems: large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc. - this is going to be a challenging journey for

HSHigh Scalability·March 24, 2020AI & ML
Engineering — Different Favicon for Development

Different Favicon for Development

I bet a lot of us tend to have the production website and the development website up simultaneously a lot. It's almost a developer cliché at this point to

CCChris Coyier·March 23, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Announcing Smashing Online Workshops — Smashing Magazine

Announcing Smashing Online Workshops — Smashing Magazine

With so many people — including our workshop leaders — working from home, we thought we would bring our Smashing workshops from our home offices to yours. We hope we can help you continue to learn and interact with the speakers and each other, and also help out our workshop leaders who are losing income by being unable to run their workshops in person right now.

RARachel AndrewRachel Andrew·March 23, 2020Engineering
Frontend — Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseparable — Smashing Magazine

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseparable — Smashing Magazine

In this seventh instalment of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will explore how American art director and graphic designer Otto Storch inspires his designs for the web. How do we use CSS Shapes to go beyond basic shapes to add energy to our designs? How do we use rotations on text for extra impact? How can we use mirroring and reflections to add interest to a design? In this article, we’ll e

ACAndy ClarkeAndy Clarke·March 23, 2020Frontend