Educational Resources

A huge focus for Whitefusion is providing actionable and down-to-earth educational materials for developers. We’re creating the content we wish to see in the world. No matter what your skill level is or what you hope to achieve in your career, our goal is to help you get a leg up with force multiplier techniques and approaches to modern web development.

The Spicy Web

In 2022, we launched a newbie-friendly Discord chat server which now boasts over 600 members. Join a fabulous community of web developers learning how to use “vanilla” web specs like HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, & Web Components—plus no-nonsense libraries & tools which promote developer happiness and avoid vendor lock-in. (Hmm, this sounds familiar…)

And this year, we have new courses available such as CSS Nouveau and soon DIY UI That Scales which teach you all the nitty-gritty details you need know to become an expert in standards-based web development.

Don’t miss our sibling publication, That HTML Blog, for up-to-date news on web specs and vanilla-adjacent libraries (be sure to sign up for the email digest!), as well as the Just a Spec Podcast hosted by Whitefusion founder Jared White & Ayush Newatia of Radioactive Toy.

Vanilla has never tasted so hot. 🍦🌶

Fullstack Ruby

Fullstack Ruby is a blog, podcast, and newsletter with 400 subscribers run by Whitefusion founder Jared White. It’s a celebration of the expressiveness, flexibility, and…yes…weirdness of Ruby—with a particular focus on what makes Ruby vibrant and relevant in our present decade as frontend and full-stack developers.

Recent popular articles & podcast episodes include:

1. Using Lambdas and Callables for Deferred Evaluation, Control Flow, and New Language Patterns
2. Episode 7: Ruby on Wasm: Is This The Future?
3. What Would It Take for Roda to Win?
4. Episode 4: Design Patterns on the Frontend, History of MVVM, Web Components, and You
5. Everything You Need to Know About Destructuring in Ruby 3

🎙️ Fresh Fusion Podcast

Fresh Fusion is a weekly show covering the business, the art, the ethics of content creation on the open Web and the Fediverse. Hosted by Jared White, this is a podcast you’ll want to subscribe to no matter what kind of content you create and publish online.

Recent episodes include:

1. The Subtle Art of Giving a Toot
2. Fediverse Goes Mainstream
3. Rebuilding the Internet, with Mariya Delano
4. Digital Ecological Collapse
5. An Interesting Reflection on the Nature of the Podcast
6. Sex Appeal, Heteronormativity, and White Supremacy in Algorithms
7. Big Tech is Too Powerful. So…Now What?

For more helpful resources, be sure to visit our Tech Specs page with links to open source tools and frameworks you may find useful.