I just spent a couple of days playing around with ideas, words to describe those ideas, and code to make those ideas come to life. It had been quite a few months since I’d spent the time to sharpen my tools, and while the challenges to the web are greater than ever, it’s also a more impressive toolkit than ever.
I’d like to call out a few heroes whose generous work as open source and easily accessible services have made the last couple of days particularly fun:
The folks at Heroku
The amazing perseverance of @automattic and the WordPress team, whose recent moves to both redo the front-end and open-source the .com site are one of a long string of bold and ambitious moves.
The energy and diligence of the Ghost team
The JS module hackers who make github and npm useful as opposed to just necessary
Brock and the rest of the Surge.sh team for a product that “just works”
The Firebase team, for not shutting down one of the tools I think has managed to bridge the ergonomics of a Heroku with the developer power that AWS-style services provide
AWS, for paving the way (and because even S3 is still remarkable)
The React team at Facebook & beyond, who are boldly moving the client side forward
The Material Design team at Google, for taking design seriously and then implementing it in an accessible way.
The LetsEncrypt team, one of the projects I’m proud to say Mozilla had a big hand in.
Happy Willy Wednesday! by Valerie
