Do you ever post a code snippet on Twitter or other social media and immediately get barraged by inquiries about that cool font or editor theme you use? I do. Have you grown especially fond of certain tool(s) and would love to praise their glory to the whole world? I have.
Inspired by@wesbos and@aspittel, I published my own/uses page to explain the tools I use to survive my daily web developer life. Check out my pagehere.
If this is not yet a movement, let's make it one! Post your own hot/uses page in the comments.
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- LocationRichmond, Virginia
- EducationSelf Taught Python/Ruby, BBA in Small Business Mgmt, AS in Production Mgmt
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What a fantastic idea! Love it! I think it would be awesome if everyone (big and small) did this.
I'll be adding this to my site alongside my/open page. I can see how this will increase transparency and help anyone who's curious to know what makes us tick.
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Thanks! What is the/open page used for?
- LocationRichmond, Virginia
- EducationSelf Taught Python/Ruby, BBA in Small Business Mgmt, AS in Production Mgmt
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The/open page is used for transparency in stats, metrics, traffic, and whatever data you collect on your users.
My page isn't up right now, but the/open page is basically a dashboard for the entire site, instead of individual users.
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Nice! I'd imagine these would be great programming challenges so you could hook that page to your metrics backend or even provide anGET /open API route which would return the collected data in JSON or other machine-readable format.
- LocationRichmond, Virginia
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Hmm. Well, this is above my understanding. Though, I will refer back to this after getting my site up and running.
Thanks for the input. I can kinda imagine how I would build that page now.
- LocationRichmond, Virginia
- EducationSelf Taught Python/Ruby, BBA in Small Business Mgmt, AS in Production Mgmt
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Here's a mock up of my/open page. Now I'm working on a/uses page.
- LocationGöttingen, Germany
- EducationSouthampton Solent University
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As I don't finished my website yet, I simply posted my/uses page here:
You can also add your/uses page to:
wesbos / awesome-uses
Awesome Uses Page
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- LocationTampere, Finland
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Thanks for the tip! Opened a PR.
Love this idea! Will try to make my own in the near future.
Derek Sivers has a similar approach with his'now page' movement, but focusing on what you're doing in life at the moment. I love it when I see people using them on their websites. (Here's an example of my own /now page)
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- LocationTampere, Finland
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Oh yeah. I have my own/now page as wellhere. It's very nice although I forget to update it from time to time.
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not completed yet but initiated.My Uses Page feedback is welcome with an open heart.
- LocationMilan, Italy
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That's a very nice idea.
I'll set one up as soon as I get my website back online
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though I tried still I am not able to extract the significance of this page. can you through some light on the personal or public benefits of the same?
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- LocationTampere, Finland
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From my point of view, reading these pages made by others is a great resource to learn new tools and techniques. When we follow a common convention in naming they are also easy to find and refer to.
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ohhk that's quite understanding its like PSR for URLs. :P
nice concept. I'll also put a page on my blog. FYI itscodebysamgan.com
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Brilliant!
- LocationSrinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
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Just made this.
- LocationRichmond, Virginia
- EducationSelf Taught Python/Ruby, BBA in Small Business Mgmt, AS in Production Mgmt
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Here's a mock up of my/uses page!
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