Philip Zastrow

@zastrow
109 Followers
253 Following
931 Posts
Is actually 3 Open-Source Hooligans in a trench coat. Writes code for a living and has the audacity to like semantic HTML, Web Standards, and Accessibility. Lives in his children’s parent’s house. His hobby is designing…t-shirts? Ok.
PronounsHe/Him
Websitehttps://zastrow.co
GitHubhttps://github.com/zastrow
Shirtshttps://cottonbureau.com/people/philip-zastrow
@ivory Oh, yeah!
@brad_frost Is it weird if I reply with the same response on multiple platforms? Anyway…mystical listical.
Make it happen Cupertino!

Hey Mastodon! It’s been a while. It’s been a busy summer. I have a very important question for which I need your collective insight, and reposts appreciated!

I am teaching a class on web basics to students at my local design college. And part of job is to make to take notes to update the existing curriculum.

I need a check on my biases regarding the emphasis on W3Schools in the current curriculum.

What do you say, is W3Schools valid education material for new learners, or not?

Thank you!

[Programmers naming something they made]:

"I call it Aristaeus, after the Greek god of cheese. Here's the logo, the docs, and a mascot. It uses a paradigm I invented, which I call 'sigjections.' Under the hood..."

[Programmers when they have to name a CSS class]:

"Noooo don't make me think of things, we shouldn't ask our brains to invent stuff, whyyyy this language is so broken"

Writing software for a living is to be in a constant state of two steps forward and one step back until your work is good enough to ship by the metrics of an unknown threshold that may including gut feeling, boredom, and/or annoyance.
@garrettdimon …and those wheels are amazing! 😍

“Liking” a post isn’t going to change the world.

You have to repost it.

Unfortunately I could not contribute to you FLOSS project as you wanted me to join a discord server to read the documentation.

I will not do this.

Discord servers are no place for documentation. Stop doing this.

Regards,
A lost contributor