# Developers We Admire.

DevFeed: [Developers We Admire.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/developers-we-admire-21672.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://paulirish.com/2012/developers-we-admire/>)

Author: Paul Irish

Published: 2012-08-17T18:46:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Paul Irish](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/paul-irish.md>)

Topics: [front-end-development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/front-end-development.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [HTML5](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html5.md>), [SVG](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/svg.md>), [Document Object Model (DOM)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dom.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debug.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browsers.md>), [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

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## AI overview

An appreciative survey of front-end developers whose teaching, open-source contributions, research, and evidence-based opinions have benefited the web development community. It highlights work involving Modernizr, polyfills, DOM APIs, source maps, HTML5 Boilerplate, CSS, browser compatibility data, accessibility, JavaScript libraries, and SVG.

## Source excerpt

One of the good things about having the eyeballs of many people is that you now have the ability to throw other people into the limelight that completely deserve to be in it. Divya Manian and I have been, for a while now, putting together a list of people in the front-end development community who, in our opinion, could use more broad acknowledgment and attention. They're also inspiring because... They are excellently skilled in their area of expertise and go out of their way to teach others how to gain these skills They participate in open source projects that fuel the community's knowledge and productivity They have independent opinions that are derived out of testing, and evidence-based fact finding worthy of learning from So, here is a list of people we admire: Ryan Seddon: @ryanseddon aka the CSS Ninja develops Modernizr, writes polyfills, and explores the edge of DOM APIs. His recent exploration of source maps lays a lot of groundwork for future web debugging potentials. Hans Christian Renl: @drublic started contributing extensively to HTML5 Boilerplate and has been actively engaged in other projects we have worked on. He also maintains a blog where he shares his learning experiences and explorations of advanced CSS features. Alexis Deveria: @fyrd maintains caniuse.com, and contributes to svg-edit, the open source svg editor. He also created & maintains the canonical timeline of web browsers which has been the basis of other browser history graphs since. He also upstreams all the data from caniuse.com to its API, is used to power sites such as api.html5please.com and html5rocks.com Jason Kiss: @jkiss's notes on accessibility are like a breath of fresh air into the dense field of accessibility. He tests in as many accessibility technology tools as available and bases his opinions on findings from his research. His articles are extremely valuable to web developers who have long had to base how to do the right thing on superstition and fact-free opinions. Kit Cambr