Harry Roberts — The Tools of a CSS Front-end Architect

Harry Roberts is an award-winning Consultant Front-end Architect, writer, and speaker from the UK. Roberts is often asked for his advice by web teams to help make their CSS better organized and more efficient. This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by: CSS Dev Conf — Conference dedicated to CSS and its super friend technologies like JavaScript, Sass, npm, and more. A limited supply of Early Bird Tickets now on sale. Register now! UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now! Jump to a conversation on… 3:40 Becoming a Google Developer Expert 5:30 What type of work do you normally do? 6:40 What does it mean to thrash things off? 7:40 When does someone hire an outside consultant? 8:30 Are you doing a lot of coding on projects? 11:11 What type of issues are clients calling you about? 14:10 What tips do you have to scale engineers to be able to understand CSS? 16:34 Only tell people what they want to hear. 18:10 What tools do you use? 21:40 Any tips on becoming a master of Chrome Dev Tools? 24:10 Can you have Canary and regular Chrome on one computer? 25:10 What does it mean to have CSS in Javascript? 31:15 What are web components and how can people benefit from them? 38:15 Your views on Sass vs Post-CSS? 39:35 Do most companies have responsive websites now? 42:45 Any advice for people who want to market themselves? 44:45 If you don’t have a blog, people cannot read your work at all. Links: Christopher Schmitt Christopher Schmitt on Twitter 📺 Harry Roberts — The Tools of a CSS Front-end Architect CSSWizarddry.com Harry Roberts on Twitter Google Developer Experts Chrome Dev Tools WebPageTest.org CharlesProxy.com SpeedCurve.com Improving Your CSS With Parker CSS Stats ack! ack for CSS Developers Ctags Canary Umaar.com Dev Tips CSS Grid Layout Using CSS Variables Web Components Polymer Project All Initial CSS Vote to support CSS property ‘all’ in MS Edge CanIUse Sass Post CSS CSS Dev Conf 2017 Lea Verou Non Breaking Space Show on TuneIn Non Breaking Space Show for Android Non Breaking Space Show on Google Play Non Breaking Space Show on iTunes Non Breaking Space Show on Facebook 📺 Non Breaking Space Show on YouTube Non Breaking Space Show Newsletter