Salma Alam-Naylor — software engineer and developer educator who makes stuff on the internet

I write code for your entertainment.

I'm a software engineer and developer educator, and I make stuff on the internet.

I help developers build cool stuff by writing blog posts, making videos, coding live, and publishing open source projects. Head of Developer Education at nordcraft.com.

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10 Jul 2025

Front End North

Join me at Front End North for an Introduction to the World Wide Web for very senior programmers.

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2 Jul 2025

How to Rick Roll your friends in 5 easy steps

It's easy.

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2 Jul 2025

Learn Nordcraft: Lesson 4

In this lesson, you'll build a multi-step form with validation, save form data to session storage, and POST it to an API when the form is complete.

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24 Jun 2025

Learn Nordcraft: Lesson 3

In this lesson, you'll build a Pomodoro timer, and get a deep dive into using formulas and workflows in Nordcraft.

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19 Jun 2025

Pixel Pioneers Warmup Event @ Just Eat offices, Bristol, UK

I'm giving my Introduction to the World Wide Web for very senior programmers to the senior programmers in Bristol.

Event

18 Jun 2025

Learn Nordcraft: Lesson 2

In this lesson, you'll build a Keanu Whoa! catalogue, and create a dynamic page to display data from an API.

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16 Jun 2025

Learn Nordcraft: Lesson 1

In this lesson, you'll build a Linktree-style website for Rick Astley with two static pages.

YouTube

11 Jun 2025

Why visual development didn't take off

Step into 1995: when the web got images, JavaScript, and visual dev tools. This is how it all began, where it went wrong, and how it's still going wrong today.

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