Jen SimmonsMay 14, 2025

If you make websites — as a developer, designer, product owner or more — what’s your favorite way to learn about what’s new on the web?

What type of content do you find most helpful?

Where are some of your favorite resources?

What’s hard? What doesn’t work? Why?

What do you need that you don’t have now?

What do you want to learn? What could unblock you?

If you could wave a magic wand, what would you want someone to make for you???

Show threadjoeybaker
@jensimmons For me, the clear leader is docs. MDN and caniuse are the gold standards and they’re both just meh. They’re both written as one layer of abstraction from the spec. I’d like docs that speak to problems and offer solutions. E.g. instead of a WebSocket doc, a doc on realtime data transfer that includes polling and SSE. Of all the docs I’ve used next.js gets closest to this balance.
May 15, 2025 at 2:49pmIvory for iOS
Show threadOpen Web DocsMay 16, 2025
@joeybaker @jensimmons great feedback! Good docs are certainly more than "a layer of abstraction from the spec". Just providing reference pages is indeed not always helpful. Seems like some How-tos are needed here.