[Matachines]

What's the author's credibility? I know it's free, but why should I give my time to read this compared to other resources?

I don't know how to say it without sounding like a dick, but the amount of long "learn web dev" resources by people who can't write well and whose only ethos is just being a programmer is ridiculous.

[dvdhnt]

Well, for what it's worth, he has a Masters in Computer Science, his open source Initializr project is pretty popular apparently, this tutorial has 3700+ stars on Github, he wrote a book on HTML5, and was a front-end engineer at Yelp.

You can see his Github here https://github.com/verekia And his resume here http://verekia.com/resume/

Edit: I find the article to be fairly well written, and I do have a background in reporting and am a full time dev using most of these tools (although I'm not particularly bound to them).