# Forever a Student

DevFeed: [Forever a Student](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/forever-a-student-35582.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://snook.ca/everything/forever-a-student/>)

Published: 2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jonathan Snook](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jonathan-snook.md>)

Topics: [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browsers.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browsers.md>), [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>)

## AI overview

The author reflects on learning web development, sharing work in progress, and accepting that mistakes are part of learning. They describe how writing, prototyping, browser testing, and research help deepen understanding, and argue that people should not be discouraged from sharing what they are learning.

## Source excerpt

When I was learning CSS's grid feature (oh gosh, nearly ten years ago), I posted a few short videos talking about my understanding of the feature and how it worked. I was surprised to get scolded for sharing inaccurate information, "especially as a teacher". Wait, what?! Who, me?! I get things wrong all the time. That's part of learning. But it was the teacher remark that threw me because I've never considered myself a teacher. Yes, I've spoken at conferences and put on workshops but the label of teacher isn't one that I feel comfortable with. Perhaps I associate the word with all-knowing authority figures standing in front of a class and I'm far from all-knowing, or an authority, or have much of a figure. I have stood in front of classes, though. I imagine myself more like Stuart from the Mad TV sketch saying "look what I can do!" When I first got into web development, I built a web page that displayed a table pulled from a database. When I showed my friend, he wasn't all that excited. "Is that it?" It was, after all, just a table on a page. (Which, hey, it was 1996. Everything was just a table on a page.) This blog has been a 25+ year journey of me saying "look what I can do" over and over again. I enjoy the process of learning new things and sharing what I've learned. Writing about what I've learned helps me learn even more because I build prototypes and test in different browsers as I try to understand all the nuances of something in my effort to write about a topic. Even with the research and prototypes and testing and writing, I'll get things wrong but one of the things I have learned is not to admonish people sharing what they're learning, even if they get it wrong. We should all be forever a student. Have something to say? Tell me about it.