Blogroll

Last Updated: January 29, 2024

Front-end Development and Web Design

• Jeremy Keith – Jeremy has consistently put out content since before I started following him back in 2006. I enjoy his commentary on the Web industry and the practice of development. And I also enjoy his more personal stories as well.
• Dave Rupert – Dave has a lot of good insights about a lot of different things though it is mainly focused on making websites. But I also like that he shares a lot of personal stuff. He is one of the people who inspired me to start doing weeknotes and to expand it beyond just what I did in my work that week.
• Chris Coyier – I have known Chris or known about Chris for at least 15 years now. I benefitted greatly from his writing on CSS Tricks. I am glad that he is posting on his site. Or that I finally started following that site because I used to just read CSS Tricks. I enjoy his mixture of commentary on the practice of web development, sharing thoughts from other people and adding commentary about that, or just sharing about trips he has taken or other things from his personal and family life. His podcast, Shop Talk Show, has also inspired many of my writings. Chris is a great example of someone excited about what he learns and is just as excited to pass it along.
• Ahmad Shadeed – I started following Ahmad’s blog about three or four years ago. He has a lot of great content. I love that he supplies an abundant amount of examples in his articles. He says that he is “passionate about bridging design and code in an easy and understandable manner.” I strongly believe that he delivers on that promise.
• Ethan Marcotte – I always enjoy reading Ethan’s very thoughtful posts on design and development. And in recent years, I have enjoyed his thoughts about unions and worker’s rights in tech.
• Andy Bell – I like Andy’s perspective on many things in the development practice. I don’t always agree with them but I like being challenged in my perspective.
• Michelle Barker – I have enjoyed Michelle’s development-focused blog. I think she does a great job of teaching and gives a lot of great examples. I was inspired to post every day in December after reading about her experiences of doing it during November. I appreciate that she has been wrestling with the purpose and the focus of her blog in the future and sharing that process in her writing.
• Veerle Pieters – I love reading her case study pieces. I enjoy her inspiration feed.
• Jim Nielsen – I enjoy his short thoughts about the practice of web development. I also like that he writes about other areas of his life as well. Several of his posts have inspired posts I have made.
• Chris Ferdinandi – I particularly like his posts on scripting and accessibility.
• Elliot Jay Stocks – I don’t hear from him as much as I used to. I have followed him for quite a long time and always enjoy his design perspective. I am looking forward to reading his upcoming book, Universal Principles of Typography.
• Jon Hicks – Jon is another peer that I have followed for a long time. I love his wit. And I love his design perspective. I had the privilege of working on a project with him several years ago.
• Dan Cedarholm (Simple Bits) – I don’t hear from Dan as often as I would like but always enjoy getting to read his stuff.
• Mark Boulton – I wish that Mark would share more often because he always writes really good stuff. He was one of the inspirations for me to start writing weeknotes in 2019.
• Rachel Andrew – I have benefitted greatly from Rachel’s writing over the years. I don’t feel like I am seeing as much content as I once did. But I have enjoyed reading some of her recent posts and getting reacquainted with her again.
• Stephanie Eckels – I learn so much from Stephanie’s posts. You can also read her work at Modern CSS Solutions.

Christian writers

• Tim Challies – Tim is a Christian writer and is writing from that perspective. I like his daily A La Carte posts where he links to other Christian writers or articles of interest as well as keeping me up-to-date with Kindle deals from mostly Christian writers. I also enjoy his articles and book reviews.
• Jon Bloom – Jon is one of my favorite Christian authors. I just realized in putting this together that the RSS feed on the Desiring God site no longer works and I have not been getting his articles in my reader for a while.
• Paul David Tripp’s Wednesday Word – I like Paul’s writing. He writes more on his site than the Wednesday Word. I like these weekly devotionals and there is always something challenging in these writings.
• Stephen McAlpine – I enjoy his cultural commentary from a Christian perspective. I enjoy that he brings a lot of his personal experience into his writings. I also like reading from someone who lives in a different culture than I do to get a bit of a different perspective.
• Trevin Wax – I have enjoyed reading Trevin’s work for many years. I think he is very insightful and I come away from his writing with some new perspective.
• Randy Alcorn – I like that Randy shares a lot of things from other authors. And then he adds his thoughts alongside theirs. I appreciate the eternal perspective that so much of his writing is focused on. But it is also very practical to think about how to live in the here and now in light of the eternal perspective.