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Brush up on web platform basics

When’s the last time you read web platform documentation like the Mozilla Developer Network HTML or JavaScript references for fun? A good practitioner deeply understands the tools they work with, but it’s easy to get stuck in a rut, reusing what we know, while the platform continues to evolve without us. We’re not often allocated […]

KSS on my list: building a living style guide and pattern library with KSS-Node

A couple years ago, the web services team at Georgetown added new themes to our WordPress system, and since then we’ve learned quite a few things about custom themes and custom Gutenberg blocks. With branding guidelines, accessibility, nearly 400 websites and even more editors, the goal with our latest update was to create an editor and […]

Open source really is free as in beer

In the open-source community, you’ll often hear the phrase “free as in speech” not “free as in beer.” In this presentation, we explore the idea that open-source software (OSS) is free as in beer, when you are tasked with the complexities and expense of brewing it yourself. Attendees can expect to learn about multiple facets of […]