This week, I focus on two of the most important skills a developer can have, which also happen to be two of the hardest ones to teach:

• The thought process to break down more complex problems.
• Being able to dive into existing code and quickly make sense of it.

These are probably two of the most important skills you can have as a developer, but they don’t get much attention because they aren’t as easy to convey as “follow along as I code this up”.

I’ll give some tips on how you can improve your skills on both of these though, and as a bonus it can even be a little fun!

Other awesome stuff around the web:

• ShopTalk show’s How to Think like a Frontend Developer
• Hyperplexed’s channel
• Hyperplexed video that I mentioned:
• CSS4 is coming by CSS Weekly
• Workarounds for Buggy Gradients by Keith J. Grant

What I’ve been up to this week:

• The code behind a Hyperplexed video
• Awesome filtering animation with vanilla JS
• CSS Shorthands aren’t always worth it

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