For a Future-Friendly Web on A List Apart

I had the extreme privilege of writing an article for A List Apart, an invaluable resource I’ve been learning from since day one of my career. Now it’s one thing to get a chance to contribute to something that’s given me so much, but it’s something else entirely to be featured next to the great Stephanie Rieger. I’ve been heavily influenced by Yiibu‘s work and I’ve learned so much from her and Bryan, so it’s an absolute honor. Her piece is called The Best Browser is the One You Have with You and is an absolute must-read.

Resources

There’s a lot of resources in my article, so I’ve gathered them all here in one place:

1. Future Friendly
2. The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day
3. Cell phones and American adults (PDF)
4. Laser Focus on the Future Friendly site
5. Hoarding on Wikipedia
6. The Discipline of Content Strategy
7. Where Have All the Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacoca
8. Responsive Design Essentials: Look Great on any Device
9. Content like water: design flexible content to flow anywhere. from @globalmoxie
10. Lucy and Ethel struggling to keep up on the candy assembly line
11. Future Ready Content
12. Daniel Jacobson on Twitter
13. COPE: Create Once Publish Everywhere
14. Moore’s Law
15. The Coming Zombie Apocalypse
16. Scott Jenson on Twitter
17. In-Stat: 339 million low-cost Android smartphones to ship worldwide in 2015
18. It’s about people, not devices
19. Understanding Progressive Enhancement
20. Mobile First
21. Support Vs. Optimization
22. Angry Birds For Blackberry
23. A Form of Madness
24. Structured Content First
25. Responsive Web Design
26. Responsive Images: How They Almost Worked and What We Need
27. Not a Mobile Web, Merely a 320px Wide One
28. On Mobile Context
29. When People Use Different Devices
30. Device APIs Working Group
31. Modernizr
32. A Tel Tale Sign
33. How to Send a Text Message from Your Mobile Website
34. MIT Media Lab Hacks the Kinect for Browser Navigation With Gestures
35. Google bringing HTML5 speech input support to Chrome
36. Command Your Fleet on the Future Friendly website
37. WebSocket Racer Demo with iPhone Remote
38. Using Node.js and your phone to control a Browser game
39. The Web Is Dead
40. Web Technologies Need an Owner
41. Future Friendly

Over 40 links? Damn.

Thank you thank you thank you

I know this is just an article, but—shit man—I spent a lot of time on it. Because of that I want to thank some people that really helped me out.

• All of the Future Friendly collaborators for crafting these thoughts—Jason Grigsby, Lyza Danger Gardner, Luke Wroblewski, Josh Clark, Scott Jehl, Jeremy Keith, Scott Jenson, Bryan Rieger, Stephanie Rieger.
• The wonderful ALA people, especially Krista Stevens who very nicely pushed me to stop sucking at writing, and Jeffery Zeldman who gave me the opportunity to write for ALA.
• Awesome people—Jack Bishop, Dave Olsen, Aaron Gustafson, Mike Gallay, Ethan Marcotte, James Pearce, Brian Fling, Matt Marquis, Tim Kadlec, Jason Head, Val Head, Paul Irish and plenty more
• Twitter – Everyone who I go back and forth with on a regular basis. People who share links, call bullshit and enjoy the ongoing conversation as much as I do.
• My wife, who puts up with all this crazy shit. I love her to death.

This was a big challenge for me and I’m happy I saw it through. Now on to the next challenges!