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.

Jerod Santo: After 13 years, 1042 podcasts, 452 newsletters, and countless friends made along the way… it’s time to say goodbye to The Changelog. I shipped my final News last Monday and Adam shipped our Friends finale yesterday. Huge congrats Jerod! Heck of a legacy.

The chances of macOS actually running an automatic update on my machines is super low. Even if I OK the “Update Tonight?” prompt, there is no way it actually goes through, because I’ll have apps open that prevent the restart. iTerm is a big one, that one won’t just quit on command. But even tabs […]