Tools & Services

Here are some of my favorite tools and services for front-end development, design, productivity, and learning.

Code

Visual Studio Code
Dank Mono Font
GitHub Copilot
iTerm2 Terminal
Z Shell
Oh My Zsh
Chrome Dev Tools
nvm
ngrok
Github
Astro
Netlify
Sanity
ProcessWire
Webpagetest
Lighthouse
Fathom
Polypane

UI/UX Design

Figma
Lyssna (formerly UsabilityHub)
Supernova

Workflow & Productivity

Notion
Notion Web Clipper
FigJam
Brain.fm
Grammarly
Readwise
1Password
Backblaze
Text Expander

Conferences

SmashingConf
beyond tellerrand
Social Developers Club Conference
Config
Schema

Workshops & Courses

Smashing Workshops (Brad Frost, Paul Boag, Stephanie Eckles, Nathan Curtis, Harry Roberts)
Practical Accessibility by Sarah Soueidan
CSS & React courses by Josh Comeau
Smart Interface Design Patterns by Vitaly Friedman
JavaScript courses by Wes Bos
Astro course by James Q Quick
Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults, by August Bradley

Podcasts

Syntax
Compressed.fm
Design Systems Podcast
The CSS Podcast
Smashing Podcast
Digital Insights
ShopTalk
The Vanilla JS Poscast
Front End Happy Hour

Newsletters

Smashing Magazine
Josh Comeau
Go Make Things
Stephanie Eckles
Sidebar
CSS Weekly
Frontend Focus
Friday Front-End
Frontend at Scale
Codrops
Paul Boag
Web.dev
Web Tools Weekly

Other Valuable Resources

Norman Nielsen Group
State of CSS/JS/HTML surveys
HTTP Archive
web.dev
MDN
Patterns.dev