MDN relies on contributors to help maintain its ever-expanding and up to date documentation. 📚
We reached out to 4 long-time community contributors to talk about how and why they started contributing and ask what advice they have for new contributors.
for this amazing tee! 💜
Loved it! 🥰💯
Best part I feel about the internet is that it has got the power to bring equality of information and accessibility to everyone; and I am glad to be a contributor towards it.
#Firefox#internetlovers
“Put the user first. User experience should trump developer convenience. Once you let that guide your work, you’re already halfway through to being a better developer than many others.” —
and it's already teaching me the platform.
In the initial boilerplate project, entry.server.tsx was returning a new instance of 'Response' — I was like, where's that being imported from? Couldn't find it.
Instant facepalm.
TIL there's a response status code 418 I'm a teapot.
Things in tech sometimes feel so unnecessarily serious, I'm glad some people remember to have a bit of fun.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418…
“Learn the fundamentals — HTML, accessibility, CSS, and just enough vanilla JavaScript to get started. Build upon those skills with tools and frameworks as your work needs.” —
"It is our responsibility as front-end developers and designers to ensure that what we create is inclusive of as many people as possible."
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I've really enjoyed writing an article to contribute to MDN the process is really friendly and the tools for generating inline demos from the code samples is really useful. So you don't need to write the demos twice.
The OWD worklog for October 2021!
- Completed converting @MozDevNet to Markdown
- Published 2021 Impact Report
- @floscholz spoke at @jetbrains JavaScript Day
- ARIA docs added to MDN
- Updates to MDN's core DOM pages
https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/updates/open-web-docs-worklog-october-2021-edition…
I'm decent at CSS. Even so, I bought @JoshWComeau's CSS course to deepen my understanding
In the _very first module_, I learned a slick new way to specify rgb/hsl color opacity
There were no examples of this on MDN. My PR to add some just got merged! https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/10131…
HTML Structuring the Web course. Just brushing up on some fundamental knowledge. In the midst, I learned some useful new things! Next, their CSS section but will be creating more videos on the HTML stuff I've learned.