CSS Tricks was the first blog that ever encouraged me, as a designer, to learn to develop. The amazing thing is that in all those years the tone of css tricks remains the same (logical straightforward and un-intimidating) but I do wish you would have have more code pen meetups in SF. Sorry for the long intro. question: I have hit a spot in my career where it seems like I have to decide on dev or UX. Very few companies have team lead roles that are hybrid (it's kind of a new concept). I know I can always learn on my own time but I can't imagine not using code as a design tool and vice versa. I would love to know how you have stayed firmly in between the two worlds and what steps I can take make it easier for people to accept more fluidity within a leadership role.

I love when incredible form meets incredible function so I am going to have to go with: say hi by zeekay IRC chat client in < 60 lines of code. He uses it instead of a resume and who doesn't love a curl try : username = os.getlogin() except : username = "unknown" hostname = socket .gethostname() irc = socket . socket ( socket .AF_INET, socket .SOCK_STREAM) if not sys.stdin.isatty(): sys.stdin = open ( '/dev/tty' ) send = lambda s : irc. send ( s .encode( 'UTF-8' )) def hello(): send ( 'PRIVMSG zeekay :hello, i am from the internet!\r\n' ) sys.stdout. write ( '> ' ) sys.stdout.flush() def goodbye(*args): send ( 'DISCONNECT' ) print ( '\nbye!' ) sys. exit ( 0 ) signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, goodbye) print ( 'Hi {0}! Poking zk... (press CTRL-C to exit)' . format (username)) irc. connect (( 'irc.freenode.net' , 6667 )) send ( 'NICK i_am_{0}\r\n' . format (username)) send ( 'USER {0} {1} irc.freenode.net :{0}\r\n' . format (username, hostname)) while True: read , write , error = select . select ([sys.stdin, irc], [], [], 0 . 01 ) for i in read : if i == sys.stdin: line = i. readline () if line.startswith( '/' ): send (line[ 1 :]) send ( 'PRIVMSG zeekay :{0}\r\n' . format (line)) sys.stdout. write ( '> ' ) sys.stdout.flush() elif i == irc: buffer = i. recv ( 1024 ) for line in buffer.splitlines(): try: _ , info, line = line.decode( 'utf-8' ). split ( ':' , 2 ) except ValueError: break server, type = info. split ( ' ' )[: 2 ] if type == 'PRIVMSG' : sys.stdout. write ( '\x08' * 2 ) sys.stdout. write ( '< {0}\n> ' . format (line)) sys.stdout.flush() elif line.startswith( 'This server was created' ): hello() else : print (line) ' SHOT OF HIS SITE: