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Re:LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineer... by ecshafer on Monday October 16, 2023 @12:20PM (#37902098)
The biography for Ethan marcotte says he is responsible for “responsive web design”, which looks like he made wrote some book in 2010 about the topic. But didn’t actually write the browser code, specifications, frameworks or anything that actually allows responsive web design. Not was he involved in any of the first examples.

Kind of tangential but that seems like a resume stuffer at best and stolen valor at worst.

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Re:LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineer... by samsolomon on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:24PM (#37906007)
He coined the term and wrote a lot of the early guidance for designing responsively for the web. Most of that is common knowledge now, but back in 2010 he was definitely on the cutting edge.
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