Sara Soueidan is an award-winning front-end developer, author, and speaker from Lebanon. She specializes in semantic markup, CSS, SVG, and responsive design, with a strong focus on accessibility and performance. In this interview, she talks about how she learnt to code and to freelance effectively. She also shares some tips on how to become a great developer and explains why writing articles can be a good way to sell your skills as a developer.

This article will explain critical web performance concepts and strategies. Understanding them will empower you to start the journey in optimising the speed of your sites and applications.

A list of helpful front-end related questions you can use to interview potential candidates, and test yourself.

A short treatise on rewarding value over volume.

The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation will show you how to manage the content process from ideation to promotion. You’ll learn how to develop a persona for your blog, a blog mission statement, and a content calendar. You’ll learn four ways to generate ideas for new posts, and you’ll learn best practices for creating written content that promotes readability and accessibility. You’ll also learn how to pitch ideas to your company’s blog editor, how to start a blog for your engineering team, and how to pitch and write for tech publications you admire.