68: Lara Schenck on CSS Algorithms and Turd-Driven Development

Today we sit with Lara Schenck to discuss CSS Algorithms and my favorite term of the year: Turd Driven Development.

She's brilliant, obviously. And It's a real treat to chat with someone who shares my affinity for CSS and a stoic acceptance of how crappy our codebases are.

But she offers hope, to teams that prioritize the work of design engineering.

Do not miss her talk CSS Algorithms. It's — hands down — my favorite talk of 2019.

Featuring

• Lara Schenk — Twitter, Website, GitHub
• Michael Chan — Twitter, Website, GitHub

Links

• JSConf US
• CSS Algorithms at JSConf US 2019 — the one that I saw and is my favorite talk of the year!
  • Other versions at CSSconf.EU, strangeloop, and CSS Day
• Tales of a Non-Unicorn: A Story About The Trouble with Job Titles and Descriptions — css-tricks
• Computer Sceince Bootcamp — Lara's exploration into computer science
• baseCS — Exploring the basics of computer science, every Monday, for a year, with Vaidehi Joshi
• Semantic Versioning
• Is CSS a programming language? — Lara's twitter poll from May 2019
• Control flow
• Declarative programming
• Turd-Driven Development
• StranglerFigApplication — an evergreen pattern by Martin Fowler
• Ship of Thesues
• stylelint — A mighty, modern style linter
• Larva — PMC's design system
• How do you see these programming languages? — place your favorite programming languages on a contiuum of "programming"

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