Niko Heikkilä

Posted on Jun 23, 2019

Show your own /uses page

#discuss #showdev #productivity #webdev

Do you ever post a code snippet on Twitter or other social media and immediately get barraged by inquiries about that cool font or editor theme you use? I do. Have you grown especially fond of certain tool(s) and would love to praise their glory to the whole world? I have.

Inspired by @wesbos and @aspittel , I published my own /uses page to explain the tools I use to survive my daily web developer life. Check out my page here.

If this is not yet a movement, let's make it one! Post your own hot /uses page in the comments.

Top comments (19)

Vicki Langer • Jun 23 '19

What a fantastic idea! Love it! I think it would be awesome if everyone (big and small) did this.

I'll be adding this to my site alongside my /open page. I can see how this will increase transparency and help anyone who's curious to know what makes us tick.

Niko Heikkilä • Jun 23 '19

Thanks! What is the /open page used for?

Vicki Langer • Jun 23 '19

The /open page is used for transparency in stats, metrics, traffic, and whatever data you collect on your users.

My page isn't up right now, but the /open page is basically a dashboard for the entire site, instead of individual users.

Niko Heikkilä • Jun 23 '19

Nice! I'd imagine these would be great programming challenges so you could hook that page to your metrics backend or even provide an GET /open API route which would return the collected data in JSON or other machine-readable format.

Vicki Langer • Jun 23 '19

Hmm. Well, this is above my understanding. Though, I will refer back to this after getting my site up and running.

Thanks for the input. I can kinda imagine how I would build that page now.

Vicki Langer • Jul 1 '19 • Edited

Here's a mock up of my /open page. Now I'm working on a /uses page.

thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i...

Matthias 🤖 • Jun 24 '19 • Edited

As I don't finished my website yet, I simply posted my /uses page here:

Tools & Services I use

Matthias 🤖 ・ Jun 1 ・ 4 min read

#webdev #productivity

You can also add your /uses page to:

wesbos / awesome-uses

Awesome Uses Page

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Niko Heikkilä • Jun 26 '19

Thanks for the tip! Opened a PR.

Alexander Sandberg • Jun 24 '19

Love this idea! Will try to make my own in the near future.

Derek Sivers has a similar approach with his 'now page' movement, but focusing on what you're doing in life at the moment. I love it when I see people using them on their websites. (Here's an example of my own /now page)

Niko Heikkilä • Jun 26 '19

Oh yeah. I have my own /now page as well here. It's very nice although I forget to update it from time to time.

Mohammed Samgan Khan • Jun 29 '19

not completed yet but initiated. My Uses Page feedback is welcome with an open heart.

Matteo Joliveau • Jun 24 '19

That's a very nice idea.
I'll set one up as soon as I get my website back online

Mohammed Samgan Khan • Jun 24 '19

though I tried still I am not able to extract the significance of this page. can you through some light on the personal or public benefits of the same?

Niko Heikkilä • Jun 24 '19

From my point of view, reading these pages made by others is a great resource to learn new tools and techniques. When we follow a common convention in naming they are also easy to find and refer to.