I’m a web designer, developer, educator, and business owner.
So far, the arc has been about running profitable companies that help you get better at web design and development. 🫶
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 
I built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022.
I’m big on the power of writing as a way to think better and improve yourself.
Doing it all for my daughter Ruby 💜.
I like old time music 🪕 and try to play it as often as I can manage.
Dave Rupert: Talk to any guitarist you know who has been playing awhile and they’ll have a story about a $200 Yamaha and how good it sounds relative to the price. Boy do I. I own a $5,000 guitar (what I originally paid for straight-grain Brazilian Rosewood Martin replica by Dennis Overton) and I didn’t […]
Wes on Syntax: I write content. That content is consumed by people. But a lot of it has been used to train AIs for people to get a very quick answer. You can see the amount of bots visiting websites has been going up significantly. You ask a question about JavaScript and they go suck […]
I saw that screencasting.com launched recently. It’s training courses all about building high-quality screencasts. Seemed like a great idea to me with the perfect domain name. There is so much video lately in today’s media and plenty of it involves editing together camera footage, stock clips, screen recordings, etc. The learning curve on doing all […]
John Allsopp has a new platform Conffab that is for livestreaming conferences as well as providing on-demand access to past recorded conference presentations. Some of which are behind a paywall. He’s got good reason to productize this. It boils down to incentives. If it all works, it’s a better place for all: presenters, organizers, and […]
