A collection of awesome manifestos.
Ten Principles for Good Design by Dieter Rams
Good design is as little design as possible
Choose Boring Technology by Dan McKinley
We should generally pick the smallest set of tech that covers our problem domain, and lets us get the job done.
This Page is Designed to Last by Jeff Huang
How do we make web content that can last and be maintained for at least 10 years?
How many are notifications are necessary? How and when should they be displayed?
Keep a Changelog by Olivier Lacan
Changelogs are for humans, not machines.
The Twelve-Factor App by Adam Wiggins
This document synthesizes all of our experience and observations on a wide variety of software-as-a-service apps in the wild.
The Rails Doctrine by David Heinemeier Hansson
The chief accomplishment of Rails was to unite and cultivate a strong tribe around a wide set of heretical thoughts about the nature of programming and programmers.
The main goal of HTML First is to substantially widen the pool of people who can work on web software codebases.
Not all websites need Javascript to be beautiful and usable.
Anyone who uses YAML long enough will eventually get burned
Immutable Web Apps by Gene Connolly
Immutable Web Applications are generated once and published once to a permanent location.
Local-first software by Kleppmann, Wiggins, van Hardenberg, and McGranaghan
Cloud services defy long-term preservation. No Wayback Machine can restore a sunsetted web application.
Frameworkless movement by Francesco Strazzullo
Every time a team uses a framework, it also takes a risk.
Always Own Your Platform by Sean Blanda
Stop giving away your work to people who don't care about it. Host it yourself. Distribute it via methods you control. Build your audience deliberately and on your own terms.
Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) by IndieWeb
POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.
Functional Web App by LeRoux and Block
Functional Web App (FWA)...empowers developers with the flexibility of dynamic, full-stack applications paired with the ease of scaling a static website.
Against software development by Michael Arntzenius
These days, for better or worse, software defines everyone's reality. Let's build one worth living in.
Trunk Based Development by Paul Hammant
Trunk-Based Development is a key enabler of Continuous Integration and by extension Continuous Delivery.
The stacking workflow by Greg Foster
Stacking parallelizes your development and code review workstreams, so you don't need to wait for your previous changes to be merged before building on top of them.
Conventional Commits by Damiano Petrungaro and Ben Coe
The Conventional Commits specification is a lightweight convention on top of commit messages.
System Font Stack by Tom MacWright
Webfonts were great when most computers only had a handful of good fonts pre-installed.
Semantic Versioning by Tom Preston-Werner
Under this scheme, version numbers and the way they change convey meaning about the underlying code and what has been modified from one version to the next.
Calendar Versioning by Mahmoud Hashemi
CalVer is a versioning convention based on your project's release calendar, instead of arbitrary numbers.
The Remote Manifesto by Darren Murph
We believe that a world with more all-remote companies will be a more prosperous one, with opportunity more equally distributed.
Principles of Chaos Engineering by Lorin Hochstein
Even when all of the individual services in a distributed system are functioning properly, the interactions between those services can cause unpredictable outcomes.
The Reactive Manifesto by Bonér, Farley, Kuhn, and Thompson
Systems built as Reactive Systems are more flexible, loosely-coupled and scalable.
The Software Defined Delivery Manifesto by Christian Dupuis
Delivery infrastructure is now programmable, and we will program it.
Stop breaking the Web by Derek Schaab
Rather than chasing after the latest features available only to those living on the bleeding edge of browser support, we should invest in making our creations open to all, consumable by all, and welcoming to all.
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