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Show Your Work |
What are you working on? What's something interesting you've just learned? You don't have to give a long talk or run a workshop to share your knowledge and help other people learn something new. A 5 minute lightning talk will do!
Here's a handy template to Show Your Work to friends, family, or some colleagues.
Say why this is interesting, in one sentence.
What's the takeaway for people listening? What problem does it solve, or what thing can they learn?
If you can't say it in one sentence, stop and think for a moment. Are you trying to cover too much? Just cover one thing, or one piece of a big thing, in some detail.
Are you not sure what to say? Tell us about how it saved you time, made something easier, or was something new to you.
Show the thing in action.
Show us:
- A demo of the finished thing. Host it on the web somewhere that other people can access. You could try CodePen or GitHub Pages.
- Behind the scenes: the source code or the structure of the design file. You might want to add comments as reminders for yourself and for us to read later.
One format for showing a thing that Front-end style guides often use: explanation, example, code sample.
Tell us how and where you found out about this.
One of the best things about our industry is the amount and awesomeness of the resources available. Did you find out about this thing on Smashing Mag, or CSS Tricks? On Twitter from Anna Debenham or Sara Soueidan? Let us know so we can find more cool stuff too.
My turn for credit where it's due: the name of this and the push to get it going (again) came from reading Austin Kleon's book Show Your Work.