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I first learned making websites from Philip Greenspun's 1997 book (dead trees back then; available online now[0]). It was already a couple years after the origi
by rollcat 4y ago
I first learned making websites from Philip Greenspun's 1997 book (dead trees back then; available online now[0]). It was already a couple years after the original release (and I was a kid), but it's amazing how much of his opinions or advice (at least, as I remember it) still holds 25 years later: own your personal domain name, dangers of cookie tracking, structured approach to development and maintenance.
He did make some mis-predictions (Linux turned out pretty good in the end), but I will probably re-read it some time soon, and I expect it to have aged well.
[0]: http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/