149 Carrie Forde from WebDevStudios

We talk with front end architect/designer Carrie Forde about atomic design and front-end development for WordPress. Carrie's Forde day job is as a front-end developer at the highly-respected WebDevStudios. Carrie Forde on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carrieforde Carrie's site: https://carrieforde.com/   Table of Contents for Episode 149 0:00 Podcast intros. 1:22 Carrie's origin story. 3:44 What Carrie's work typical work day looks like right now. 4:56 How difficult is it to break into front-end development in today's environment? 7:20 Carrie tells us about her Alcatraz framework for WordPress that she developed. 9:05 What are style tiles? And what is Carrie's style tiles plugin for WordPress? 12:27 Carries teaches us about atomic design and the benefits of using it in UI design. 17:10 More resources for learning about Atomic Design. 19:38 What the WordPress community can do to make themes more accessible? 21:43 A habit to develop when creating WordPress themes to make them translatable. 22:48 What inspired Carrie to build the Alcatraz framework and what ideas in Genesis she wanted to improve on. 25:06 Carries philosophy on creating themes and making them developer friendly. 27:23 What goes into a CSS refactoring project. 28:56 Where does a CSS refactoring project make sense? 30:33 What is Carrie's preferred naming or organizational convention for writing CSS? 31:48 What are some great resources for learning JavaScript? 34:31 Are there any trends in CSS and front development that Carrie sees becoming prominent in 2017? 36:10 Any resources that Carries recommends for learning front-end development?   ===================   Links mentioned during the show: WebDev Studios https://webdevstudios.com/ Mighty Minnow https://www.mightyminnow.com/ Alcatraz - A framework for creating awesome, flexible WordPress themes http://alcatraztheme.com/ https://github.com/carrieforde/Alcatraz Style Tiles (Samantha Warren) http://styletil.es/ Style Tiles and How They Work (A List Apart) http://alistapart.com/article/style-tiles-and-how-they-work Faster Design Decisions with Style Tiles (An Event Apart) https://vimeo.com/115992327 WordPress Style Tiles (Carrie Forde plugin) https://github.com/carrieforde/WordPress-Style-Tiles Creating Themes with Atomic Design (WC Sac 2016) https://speakerdeck.com/carrieforde/creating-themes-with-atomic-design Atomic Design Methodology http://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/chapter-2/ Atomic Design: The Book http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-design-book/ PatternLab.io http://patternlab.io/ Strengths Finder 2.0 https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X BEM - Block Element Modifier http://getbem.com/introduction/ ITCSS - Scalable, Mainta