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phamann / Lessons.md
Last active June 6, 2024 11:35

Lesson's learnt building the Guardian

Below is a collection of my favourite responses I gathered from Guardian engineers when asked the question: What have you learnt starting from scratch and building a mobile-first next generation web platform for the Guardian?

Daithi O Crualaoich

  • Work with great people.
  • Deploy like crazy. This means the team has to control the infrastructure as well as code.
  • Design is not a service. Designers have to sit in the team.
  • Infrastructure is intrinsically unreliable. Discard and replace is the robust strategy.
  • Use your CDN for HTML too.
  • Don't always do as you are told.
@ngryman
ngryman / em.scss
Created March 3, 2013 19:03
sass px to em mixin
// http://viljamis.com/blog/2013/prototyping-responsive-typography/?utm_source=Responsive+Design+Weekly&utm_campaign=76e7785581-Responsive_Design_Weekly_046&utm_medium=email
$browser-context: 16; // Default
@function em($pixels, $context: $browser-context) {
@return #{$pixels/$context}em
}
@isaacs
isaacs / node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
Last active March 1, 2026 06:00
Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh