Wes Bos
wesbos.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Wes Bos, a web developer, writes about JavaScript, CSS and tooling, and sells and gives away web development courses.
What HN saysCommenters often recommend his JavaScript, React, flexbox and grid courses for beginners and praise his regional pricing for countries with lower purchasing power.
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rafaelm · 2020-08-16
As one person living in one of those countries with greatly reduced purchase power, I really appreciate the way Wes Bos[1] has done it for his courses (I've bought a couple of them).
He's got an episode on his podcast on how he implemented it [2].
It does sound like some work and I'm not saying you should discount or give away your work though.
[1]https://wesbos.com/
[2] https://syntax.fm/show/233/hasty-treat-purchasing-power-parity
uptown · 2018-05-07
If you're just starting out, I highly recommend checking out Wes Bos's React tutorial series. He's refreshed the contents of many of them to remain current with the evolving changes of React:
https://wesbos.com/
freshyill · 2018-01-21
Check out Wes Bos’s courses. He does a great job of making this stuff accessible. http://wesbos.com
rayrag · 2021-05-05
Not linear but I recommend: for HTML read chapter 3 & 4 of HTML spec - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
For CSS I recommend Wes Bos tutorials about flexbox and grid - https://wesbos.com/courses and this blog: https://ishadeed.com/articles/
ronyfadel · 2020-02-19
I can’t recommend Wes Bos videos [0] enough (I’m not affiliated).
Something clicked for me watching his videos, made learning parts of JS easier.
The JS courses are free.
[1] https://wesbos.com/courses/
shubham_sinha · 2018-11-15
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web
Follow following Youtube channels:
1. FreeCodeCamp: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ
2. The New Boston : https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston/featured
3. Ben Award : https://www.youtube.com/user/99baddawg/featured
Outside Youtube:
1. Wes Bos : https://wesbos.com/
2. Udemy : https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/
3. CSS Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/
4. Egghead: http://egghead.io
Etc etc
marpodomarp · 2018-11-14
I'm personally a big fan of Frontend Masters: https://frontendmasters.com. I've found it to be one of the most comprehensive resources for web development out there, especially for front-end work. I think it's a great starting point for any prospective web dev, especially if you're keen on learning some crucial JS concepts.
Once you dive a bit into the fundamentals, you can also check out Wes Bos's suite of courses: https://wesbos.com/courses/. His React tutorial is definitely my favorite one out there.
cjCamel · 2018-10-23
All of the following cost money but are good:
Wes Bos (https://wesbos.com/courses/) and Scott Talinksi (https://www.leveluptutorials.com/) have some great modern JavaScript courses, most of which require understanding of coding and the basics of web dev.
For everything else Pluralsight (https://pluralsight.com) is pretty comprehensive.
peterjonesio · 2018-07-27
I agree I personally don't like to download offline tools for this sort of work. I haven't used it for anything serious - I just took an overall look at it after https://wesbos.com/ gave it a shout out and like you - decided it looked promising.
Mainly just posted the link to share the knowledge :)
rayalez · 2018-07-09
Wes Bos (https://wesbos.com) has an upcoming advanced React video course on building a project that'll use Prisma. It's coming out around August and it's supposed to be epic.
You can look at the code for final project here, maybe it'll be useful:
https://github.com/wesbos/Advanced-React
imauld · 2018-04-02
I've been doing his React course and it's been very helpful so far. I have no reason to believe his other course aren't just as good:
http://wesbos.com/courses/
NOTE: Some of his courses are paid. The plain JS course is free though. However, I paid for the React course and feel it was very worth it.
chrismorgan · 2020-05-10
Looking at the screenshots and the CSS in question, and presuming that before it just wasn’t specifying fonts at all, I prefer the “before” result if I’m the consumer, mostly because I like the fonts I set in my browser, and consider Inter and Incosolata a slight regression. Also most of the other styles I disagree with; capping the width and reducing the line-height for headings is about all I actually agree with in there.
But really I think that if this is all you want to change with org-mode HTML output, it must export pretty decent HTML. (I’m not familiar with it.)
(Analysis of the things I particularly don’t like: 1.6 is too large a line-height; I prefer #000 to #444, though I’d settle for #222; image should use max-width instead of width, and have height: auto added, and what’s with the 700px instead of 900px, especially if you’re not going to block and centre it?; border-radius on images seems a bad idea; I dislike gratuitous fiddling with ::selection colours—only touch it if you have actual brand colours that you’re making it align with, like https://wesbos.com/, and be cautious even in that, as is demonstrated in the .highlight on that page which thwarts selection styling.)
mcintyre1994 · 2020-02-15
I really like Wes Bos' courses, they cover full stack Javascript and some other FE stuff if you're interested in that. https://wesbos.com/courses/ is his list of courses.
akie · 2019-01-10
They went from a terrible font to a bad font. There are so many nice ones [e.g. have a look at https://wesbos.com/programming-fonts/], why not pick one of these? Inconsolata or Menlo would be a big improvement over what they chose now. Missed opportunity, IMHO.
agentultra · 2018-04-10
wesbos · 2013-01-17
I've created a theme + colour scheme called cobalt2
http://wesbos.com/cobalt2-theme-sublime-text-2/