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How can you find time for your career development? ⏱️ Here’s our take on it:   

In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we discuss the strategies that frontend leads and managers employ to make room for growth amidst their daily responsibilities.

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

What benefits frontend developers the most: working on long-term projects, or switching every six months?  🤝

We discuss the FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) on new technologies in the changing world of frontend development.

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Looking for a better way to optimize and improve your project’s web performance? 🚀 We’ve got you covered:

Today Chucho and Ricard are joined by Ines Akrap, Senior Web Performance Engineer, for insights into Core Web Vitals in 2023.

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Additional resources:
🔗 https://github.com/Netcentric/progux

Are you a web developer or designer passionate about creating visually stunning, high-performance websites? 🤩

We review the optimal ways how to upload images in 2023.

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Additional resources:
- https://web.dev/learn/images
- https://squoosh.app

There is one question on the minds of web developers and tech enthusiasts everywhere: How 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 relevant is progressive enhancement and graceful degradation in 2023?

In the latest episode of the Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we spill the tea on whether these approaches are still worth it, as well as the best techniques to get the most out of them according to the device you’re using.

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

We talk about what we look for on a website when it comes to web performance. What are the basic things we first check? What tools do we use?

FE developers even if not web performance experts need to be able to identify issues and how to solve them.

At Cognizant Netcentric we've written some articles about web performance, have a look:
https://www.netcentric.biz/insights/2019/01/web-font-performance
https://www.netcentric.biz/insights/2021/08/css-loading-strategies-1
https://www.netcentric.biz/insights/2021/09/css-loading-strategies-2

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

This time Steffen and Dominik reflect on coding custom designs and the challenges faced with writing CSS. To create a solid base stylesheet in combination with minimal styles for a website is an important starting point. However, it is challenging to create things by hand, interlinking layout and design, and maintaining components. Frameworks could be a solution, but they have a big disadvantage.

Highlights
00:00 Intro
02:53 Best way of coding custom designs
07:07 Challenges
12:50 Component Frameworks
14:39 Is writing HTML & CSS programming?
15:42 Design of interfaces (today)
18:42 Great Design = ruleset
20:45 Skillset of a frontend developer
26:29 Pros & Cons of CSS frameworks
30:34 Building up confidence
31:54 A good Schlusswort

Links
Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
Cube CSS: https://cube.fyi/
Andy Bell: https://buildexcellentwebsit.es/
Flynt Starter Theme: https://flyntwp.com/

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