Zach LeathermanIf you were to pick one web development blog post that played a huge part in changing or influencing how you build on the web—which blog post would it be?
Paul Houle@zachleat not a quite a blog but this helped start my career https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/
Manuel Matuzović@zachleat hard to pick one but “Understanding Progressive Enhancement” by @Aaron is definitely in my top 3.
https://alistapart.com/article/understandingprogressiveenhancement/
Aaron Gustafson
Fynn Ellie Be@zachleat Learning about BEM which is the basis of every CSS architecture I’ve built for the past 8 years.
https://csswizardry.com/2013/01/mindbemding-getting-your-head-round-bem-syntax/
Jay 🆘
Seirdy
Sara Joy 
@Seirdy @zachleat @whalecoiner
Omg! 🔥🔥🔥
"These people say "But if you take away the moral argument, why should you care about PE or a11y?".
THE MORAL ARGUMENT IS THE FUCKING ARGUMENT, YOU FEDORA-WEARING SHITBEAN."
Yesssss
DennisL
Marc Etienne@Seirdy @zachleat @whalecoiner Huzzah! I thought only us old farts who care about users with older devices, and who may only be using EDGE because telecoms don't care about farmers cared about PE! I thought I was the last one standing!
I shall keep pressing for PE, and under the guise of Mobile First also for keeping the low bandwidth users, the users with bad eyesight in mind.
Max Böck
e(Ag)le 🦅@Seirdy Sheesh, I don't think I've ever seen such a good point made so poorly
Tyler Gaw
Paul Roub
elle mundy
Simon Cox 
This one - hands down changed the course of so many things.
https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/
Hopefully @beep latest book will have as big an impact! Follow him for more info.
Chris Ferdinandi@zachleat This presentation from @stubbornella https://www.slideshare.net/stubbornella/object-oriented-css
Object Oriented CSS
Object Oriented CSS - Download as a PDF or view online for free
Mayank@zachleat this one was quite impactful, not in changing how i build, but how i look at the tools i use to build. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-css
Ethan Marcotte
David G. Smith@zachleat Not sure if “blog post” describes it, but Dave Shea’s @daveshea CSS Zen Garden https://www.csszengarden.com/ has GOT to be on the list! 😻
(fixed spelling; added EMPHASIS! ;-)
Daniel Rotter@zachleat I'd say currently it is https://dev.to/tigt/making-the-worlds-fastest-website-and-other-mistakes-56na
Paul Everitt
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Key Pickles@zachleat Brad Frost's Atomic design article really clicked with me, and made me realise you have to think about front end in its own unique way.
Atomic Design
Hey there! I wrote a book called Atomic Design that dives into this topic in more detail, which you can buy as an ebook. We’re not designing pages, we’re designing systems of components.—Stephen Hay As the craft of Web design continues to evolve, we're recognizing the need to develop thoughtful desi
@zachleat I remember this @medium post having a massive effect, for better or worse: https://medium.design/crafting-link-underlines-on-medium-7c03a9274f9
Marcin Wichary@zachleat This guide to building WordPress themes from 2005 threw me into the deep end of PHP and CSS. I learned so much from this series of posts.
Andrew Douglass
Garrett Dimon 
@zachleat Dated now, but mind-expanding when it was originally published. https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/
@garrettdimon whew, yes!
Jason Grigsby@zachleat The obvious one would be @beep’s https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/ both for its broader influence and for sucking me into the responsive images blackhole with @Wilto.
But if I were to pick something earlier and less well known, maybe Yahoo’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Site: https://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
And if we include books, a long forgotten gem is Speed Up Your Site by Andrew King which opened my eyes to #webperf.
Mat “Wilto” Marquis
Thomas@zachleat The Market for Lemons by @slightlyoff: https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/
The Market for Lemons
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?
Florian Geierstanger@zachleat See the answers as a reminder that we clearly need a new magazine, following up on A List Apart and CSS Tricks. Smashing Mag is okay, but still we need another one.
Rich Holman@zachleat the still classic from 2000: https://alistapart.com/article/dao/
@dogwonder yeah—this one is on my list too—and https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain/
@zachleat that looks great, saved!
mb21@dogwonder @zachleat This. It’s a must read.
Kristofer Joseph@zachleat
This post from @beep was the reason my “weird” prototype that no one understood got green lit at Adobe to become Adobe Edge Reflow ( just to be murdered by product management )
David O'BrienWas going to say http://www.csszengarden.com/ but that’s not a blog post.
So I’d have to say https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/ by @beep which I hope counts?
@zachleat I'm cheating, it's a list of 3 related posts which helped me get up to speed a couple of years ago (even then they were already dated):
https://peterxjang.com/blog/modern-javascript-explained-for-dinosaurs.html
https://peterxjang.com/blog/modern-css-explained-for-dinosaurs.html
https://peterxjang.com/blog/modern-html-explained-for-dinosaurs.html
@zachleat https://alistapart.com/article/dao/ for me, no question.
@zachleat (hugs to everyone in your mentions who kindly mentioned the ol’ responsive design article 💜 💜 💜)
Cory 
Sameera
Christian Moved Servers ➡️@zachleat Don’t mind me, just passing through this blog post buffet and gathering some links to read later; thanks all 💚
alcinnz@zachleat I think I'll pick, off the top of my head, The CSS Mindset by Max Bock: https://mxb.dev/blog/the-css-mindset/
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦@zachleat I'm not sure I can narrow it down to a single post/article, but https://alistapart.com and (the previous incarnation of) webmonkey . com were both pretty influential.
Jonathan Holst@zachleat @brad_frost Design Eye for the Usability Guy: https://web.archive.org/web/20040603114545/https://www.designbyfire.com/000094.html
Ben S@zachleat The five simple steps series by @markboulton some 15 years ago essentially led to me moving from engineering to design.
Mark Boulton