Matt McT is a designer and programmer living in Los Angeles. He works with local clients and with remote clients spanning the globe. His writing and perspectives come from over 10 years in the trenches of digital design, web design, and web application technology. When he's not developing websites or branding companies, he's writing music, working on motion image projects, or doing yoga.
When you're a front-end focused developer, you get used to open source things mostly working. You find a ton of stuff that's supposed to work. But once you start using it in a real-world applications, you find limits and get requests that stretch the tools you had initially selected to save time... to the point of being more time then they are worth!
Twitter's Bootstrap was brought to us all by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton. Developers are currently using the version 3 release but version 4 demo version was recently released.
Anyway, remember those tools that mostly work? Bootstrap is not one of those projects. It works, and it works well. It's reliable, and in conjunction with jQuery (which is bundled-in) it falls back quite gracefully on T-rex browsers.
Web design is responsive design. Responsive web design is web design, done right.