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.

I love my little family Ruby πŸ‘§ & Miranda πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ.

For Fun

I like old time music πŸͺ• and try to play it as often as I can manage.

Full Feed RSS

With Paul Kinlan’s Full Feed RSS I can now subscribe to Khoi’s site where the RSS entries are more than one sentence. It does make me think… would this annoy Khoi? Does he have it that way on purpose, perhaps because he really wants the site to be read on the site? Do I feel […]

Dastardly fun from Herman Martinus, who runs Bear Blog, on a very special UX implemented on the page when a user is determined to be a spammer: It works, too, apparently. I love the idea of wasting bad people’s time. It reminds me of that episode of Mythic Quest, “Dinner Party” where they trap all […]

Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, CodePen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links. ShopTalk & Friends

Attempting a Safari Move

Safari isn’t any better with battery life. I feel like that needs to be shared more as it’s very strong folk tech wisdom that Chrome eats battery and Safari does not, which is apparently not true at all, and might be the opposite. But I don’t care too much about that. I have a first-gen […]

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