Stuff Everybody Knows

A guide to the rest of your web development career, by Laurie Voss.

This started as a talk given over 30 times to bootcamp audiences between 2014 and 2021. It covered the foundational knowledge that experienced developers assume you already have — the stuff nobody teaches because everyone thinks someone else already did. It has been expanded and updated into this website.

Read it at: stuffeverybodyknows.com

What's in here

• site/ — An Astro static site with 15 chapters written in Markdown
• transcript.txt — Transcript from a video recording of the original talk
• slides_stuff-everybody-knows-february-2021/ — The reveal.js slide deck from the final version of the talk (February 2021)

Running locally

cd site
npm install
npm run dev

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute.

License

Content is copyright Laurie Voss 2014–2026. Code (site infrastructure, CSS, templates) is MIT licensed.