Good Things

Folks in design and technology have a tendency towards negativity. Any day of the week you can read Twitter, blog posts, and have conversations with co-workers and hear people declare, with self-appointed authority, that anything they don’t find value in is bad.

Here’s a non-exhaustive, unordered list of things about my work—maybe yours too—that are good.

• HTML is good
• The WHATWG is good
• CSS is good
• The CSSWG is good
• Sass is good
• PostCSS is good
• CSS-in-JS is good
• CSS Modules is good
• Sketch app is good
• Photoshop is good
• Illustrator is good
• Affinity Designer is good
• Paying for fonts is good
• JavaScript is good
• jQuery is good
• React is good
• React Native is good
• Redux is good
• Redux Thunk is good
• Redux Saga is good
• node is good
• Babel is good
• webpack is good
• rollup.js is good
• gulp is good
• Metalsmith is good
• Handlebars is good
• Prettier is good
• npm is good
• yarn is good
• Python is good
• Django is good
• Flask is good
• PyPI is good
• PHP is good
• Ruby is good
• Rails is good
• Atom is good
• TextWrangler is good
• Vim is good
• RSS is good
• Server-side rendering is good
• Client-side rendering is good
• Progressive enhancement is good
• Being positive is good
• Being earnest is good
• Being kind is good

There are infinite more things that are good about being a designer and engineer. If you read my list and thought; “Thing X is also good, why isn’t it on your list?”. It’s not that I don’t think thing X is good. It’s either that I; didn’t think of it, or don’t have enough knowledge about it to know it’s good. For those, I encourage you to make your own list of Good Things.