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WE LEARNED

THIS MONTH

EVERYTHING EASY IS
HARD AGAIN
Feeling bamboozled
by the complexity of
making websites these
days? You’re not alone.
Frank Chimero took a break
from making websites for
three years and was
surprised by what he found
when he returned to it.
How did things get so hard?
https://frankchimero.com/
writing/everything-easy-is-
hard-again/

THIRD-PARTY CSS IS NOT
SAFE
Following the recent
alarm around a
keylogger built with CSS,
Jake Archibald wrote this
important post about the
dangers of relying on third-
party CSS – and in fact any
third-party content. As well
as explaining how these
tricks work, he suggests
some ways of fortifying
your sites.
https://jakearchibald.
com/2018/third-party-css-
is-not-safe/

LEARN CSS VARIABLES
FOR FREE
CSS variables are well
worth getting to grips
with as they make your
code more flexible and your
life easier. These free
screencasts will get you up
to speed in no time, and
conclude with a challenge
to help the knowledge stick.
https://scrimba.com/g/
gcssvariables

28%

Firefox

4%

Opera

4%

Safari

61%

Chrome

3%

Edge

WHICH BROWSER DO YOU USE

FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT?

THE POLL

I was left in a small

room that was more like

a cupboard with empty

boxes and forgotten about for 45

mins! No apology or prep work

from them.

@rorystandley

At the beginning of the

interview, my would-

have-been boss (had I

accepted) thought he was being

polite to me by yelling at his

current design lead to do things

for me. That just showed me how

he treats his employees.

@alainavirginia

When a manager asked

me about Office Skills

while interviewing for a

Graphic Design position.

@WaqDev

At the end of a long 5

person, back 2 back

interview, I show the

evp my site on my phone. I hand

it to him and he says, You run a

porn site? My site was hacked

and had all sorts of porn

intermixed with my content... he

was a good sport about it tho

and I was hired anyway.

@oquillia

One of my first

interviews out of uni,

the interviewer abruptly

passed out midway through the

interview then had no awareness

anything was wrong when he

came round. Part of me still

wonders if it was a test.

@david_panik

It was a test experience

alongside another

candidate who

discussed his love of Morris

Dancing, couldn’t complete the

test as it was too difficult and

then begged for the job because

his wife had just left him. The

company I was applying to

couldn’t apologise enough!

@Nor_

From our timeline^

What’s your worst job interview experience?