Principles, Laws, & Quotes
A collection of principles, guidance, and wisdom from the web.
Sanderson's Success Formula src
Success is a function of the value you bring to others, so a pursuit equally fueled by love but which did nothing to help or to entertain people just wouldn't have had a chance to work.
Meyer's Principle of Ubiquity for the Websrc
Ubiquity, even over Consistency.
Principle of Least Powers src
Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose.
Inclusive Design Principles src
It's about designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really.
Keith's Law src
Javascript should only do what only Javascript can do.
Connecting the Dots src
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along.
Principles for Reflective Web Archiving src
- Attempt to save as much material as possible
- Performed by archivists and/or institutions outside the community
- Focused on the universal over the personal
- Concerned with preservation and restoration rather than recirculation
Evans' Law of Web Archiving src
Any faithful reconstruction of a website will inevitably fail to exactly recreate the original
Ferdinandi's Lean Web Principles src
- Embrace the platform
- Favor small, modular tools
- Build a web for everyone
Brok's Wisdom src
The Nature of the thing is more important than the Form of the thing.
Stewart's Principles of Precision src
- Complexity often masquerades as sophistication; simplicity requires confidence.
- True mastery lies not in conquering all tools, but in wielding the fewest with precision.
- The server that renders HTML has solved more problems than the framework that promises to.
- Each abstraction should simplify something; when it doesn’t, we’ve abstracted too soon.