Stuff I Learned This Year

A few weeks ago I launched JetPack, a project that started as a “what if” brainstorming session back in January.

As I was thinking about the project and the various things that went into it, I realized I learned how to do a lot of things this year. Between JetPack and a few side projects, here’s some of the stuff I’ve learned this year:

• Mobile First
• How to use icon fonts
• HTML5 semantics
• Javascript and jQuery
• jQuery UI Drag & Drop and Sortables
• PHP
• How to write WordPress plugins
• AJAX (sort of... I'm getting there)
• Twitter Bootstrap
• CSS3 gradients
• Grid-based layouts
• HTML5 video with flash fallback
• Web accessibility
• Typography-based web design
• Browser caching
• Performance optimized web images
• Image sprites
• SASS

This is such an exciting time to working on and with the web. I can’t wait to see what I’ll learn next year.