About dxsrc

dxsrc is a fire-hose source for everyone interested in studying, practicing, and staying up-to-date on web development.

Mission

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The goal of dxsrc is to serve as the most comprehensive news and tooling source for web development:

Share important, useful, interesting, and sometimes contrarian information about everything related to web development and the profession itself
Make that information easy to access and syndicate (via various RSS feeds, Mastodon, Bluesky, and eventually more platforms)
Give good credit to authors and publishers (with ample social media mentions and enhanced visibility for whitelisted domains)

dxsrc is also a small and humble publisher of books about web development. The first titles are ebooks by the founder of dxsrc, Jens Oliver Meiert, but dxsrc is to feature other authors and book types as well. If you’re an author writing about web development, get in touch about how dxsrc and you could fit together.

FAQ

Do You Fact-Check and Endorse Everything You’re Linking?

No. That would neither be possible nor desirable. There are many viewpoints, even in web development, and people err, also in web development.

The challenges here are also tricky: While there are several quality checks in place (around clickbait, AI slop, and nonsense), there’s a strong emphasis on diversity in views and the freedom for authors to be wrong. For opinion pieces, this seems crucial also to avoid censoring people.

The value of dxsrc lies less in each article being right than in providing access to a great range of views and an overview of the entire field.

How Do Attributions Work?

Authors and publishers who can be found on Mastodon or Bluesky are being attributed with their social media handles. If your work is featured, you’re on Mastodon or Bluesky, but you’re not being attributed, please reach out.

(Some platforms, like Twitter/X, violate dxsrc’s values and are therefore not supported. In X’s case, which had been supported in the past, this is to lead to missing attributions for some time to come. Other platforms, when embraced by the web development community and adopting strong values, might be considered and added in the future.)

However, people and organizations who support or contribute to wars, genocides, and misanthropy, or who appear like they endorse such crimes, are not attributed until there’s evidence to the contrary. Their material is only made available via an archive service, too.

Do You Alter Article Headlines?

For consistency reasons, all headlines on dxsrc use title case. (Things would look weird and read poorly if it were all mixed.) That means that headlines of articles that don’t originally use title case are converted to title case. Other than that, headlines are only—but not always—edited if there’s a typo, or to remove emoji that serve no important purpose.

What Else Is There to Know About dxsrc?

Originally, dxsrc started as UITest.com (2003–2022). UITest.com featured “web-based tools for web development and design” until it was folded into the tools section of its successor, Frontend Dogma. That tools section also includes UITest.com’s, then Frontend Dogma’s, and now dxsrc’s Site Check which, if you haven’t tried it yet, you should absolutely play around with. Enjoy testing!

Can I Propose or Provide Content for dxsrc?

Absolutely. Please reach out by sending an email or a direct message on Mastodon.

To propose links to be featured on dxsrc, you can also try the secret front matter generator to file an issue together with the generated files (the repository for dxsrc.org is temporarily private).

And, as mentioned above, if you’re writing a book related to web development and are looking for a publisher, let’s talk more over email as well.

Can I Highlight My Site on dxsrc?

Frontend Dogma doesn’t sell links or link promotions. However, if your site is already linked from dxsrc, you can have it whitelisted for extra benefits.

Can I Make Other Suggestions and Contributions?

Yes! Feedback and initiative are always welcome.

If you want to support dxsrc—which would help, as the project is hard free-time work—, learn and teach with dxsrc’s books and back dxsrc on Open Collective.

(On Open Collective you can also share ideas on what could be a great next feature—ideas on anything that would help your work as a developer, technical lead, or engineering manager.)