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.
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