Choose your battles - Speaker Deck

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choose your battles: tales from the front lines of a digital agency

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you say you want a (r)evolution?

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“the real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.” @GeorgeOrwell1984

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libertarianism

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dangers of authoritarianism

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the web?

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rules and choices

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loose rules

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conﬁdence, trends & the dogmatic crowd

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building websites

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handlebars Gulp Yeoman Sass Bower Grunt Less-CSS EmberJS AngularJS underscore.js Backbone CoﬀeeScript.js Compass Bourbon npm CSS JavaScript HTML PostCSS Broccoli React Polymer RequireJS Jasmine Jasmine jQuery ZeptoJS Modernizr mustache Jade

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“Looking at the stack listed in the front end tooling survey, I can safely say that as a junior developer, I’d probably be unemployable” @codepo8

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“The more I see - the more I know. The more I know - the less I understand” @paulwellerHQ

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CSS

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@import url(style.css); @media screen and (min-width: 768px) …

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CSS SMACSS ITCSS OOCSS BEM

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who are we building for?

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the myth of CSS

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“People don’t care about things - they care about the things that happen” @russmiles

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“That I cannot say sir. I am one of these people who are quite happy to wear cotton, but have no idea how it works.” @edmund_blackadder

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the ‘p’ word

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principles and purposes help make choices

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• URLs are constant • anticipate a range of inputs • expect JavaScript to fail my principles

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“the code is more what you'd call ‘guidelines' than actual rules.” @cptn_barbossa

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“the real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.” @GeorgeOrwell1984