WordPress came close to leaving behind the React framework. We interviewed developer Gary Pendergast to dig into why, and how WordPress, Facebook, and the Apache Software Foundation brought this issue to a head, and what we can learn from it. — In the summer of 2017, a lively open source licensing debate was happening: the React framework had become one of the most popular frameworks in existence, but was React’s open source license open enough for developers to trust it? …

It turns out even the most advanced developers we follow struggle with what they want to learn and how to get started. — As an educator, engineer, and follower of many of the same kinds of people, I am hyper-aware of how learning to code is a struggle for the whole spectrum of experience of developers in the field, myself especially! We all have our own ways of combatting or succumbing to impostor…

Computers are fast and we make computers so why aren’t we fast like computers the fast computers we make? — Computers are fast. And we make computers. So why are we not fast like the fast computers we make? …

Last week was a busy week for us on the Glitch team, and it looks like it was also for you: our stellar users who have been making such incredible stuff with Glitch over the past several days! Here are some really cool things you made. Tracery is a tool that writes generative grammars, which leads to…

We’re big fans of Slack here on the Glitch team, especially since most of us are distributed and I, personally, need a vehicle for constant emoji communication. We’ve set our Slack team up with apps — and, most importantly, custom emoji — to optimize our workflow. …

A history of web standards’ claim to “help our users” when they are actually putting them and developers in danger — Believe it or not, there was a time when all computer screens were the same size and building interfaces for all devices was an efficient task — typically needing one design and one implementation. Look around today and there are devices of all shapes and sizes, being used in and…

A blog I should have written two years ago. — Every day is a winding road. — Sheryl Sandburg Facebook reminded me, today, that exactly two years ago I decided to end one journey and head off on another journey. An employment journey. When you are a web developer with a job, you sometimes end up in situations where you…

A small collection of thoughts, poems, and art — If an NPM module is published in the forest And no one is there to prevent its unpublishing Do all web developers become trademark experts? “We don’t mean to be a dick about it” said the red Power Ranger* trying to explain why the Rangers’ vehicles decided to form a dick instead of the Megazord *Jason They have unpublished the modules that were in the registry and which you were probably installing for work Forgive us we don't mean to be a dick about it

I wish someone told me that everything else is useless. — About three weeks ago I had begun using a new JavaScript framework called “React,” after several months of building applications in another language. I have discovered that there is not much feedback about various JavaScript frameworks on the internet, so I figured I’d bring that perspective into the conversation. Building…