Three good thoughts from Shane Parrish: Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency. ** Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you’re smarter than you are. *** Working smart isn’t the opposite of working […]
My Work Identity
I’m a web designer, developer, educator, and business owner.
My Career
So far, the arc has been about running profitable companies that help you get better at web design and development. 🫶
Things I'm Doing
With Alex Vazquez, I’m the co-founder of
, a social front-end web development environment.
With Dave Rupert, I’m the co-founder of a podcast called 
A Thing I Did
I built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022.
My Motivation
I’m big on the power of writing as a way to think better and improve yourself.
Doing it all for my daughter Ruby 💜.
For Fun
I like old time music 🪕 and try to play it as often as I can manage.
Does the leadership at my company promote a xenophobic agenda and use the wealth I help them acquire to donate directly to bigoted causes and politicians I find despicable? Yeah, sure. Did I celebrate my last birthday at Drag Brunch? Also yes. I even tipped with five-dollar bills. I contain multitudes, and would appreciate it […]
EMTBs in Bend
The decision is in from the Forest Service: Of the over 500 miles of singletrack maintained by COTA, about 320 miles of trails are in the Deschutes National Forest (DNF). As of December 2025, it is now allowed to use Class 1 pedal-assist e-bikes on 160 miles of those trails. Feels like this is on […]
Media Diet
🎵 Florence + The Machine, Everybody Scream — I have no prior Florence experience but really like this album. The whole “start slow and build a song to a wild ass peak” thing works for me. “You Can Have It All” is a favorite. A little called out by “It must be nice to be a […]