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.
I’ve accepted an invitation to speak at Smashing’s (Online) Conference Meets Style Sheets. It’s free on Wednesday, May 6th. I named my talk In-N-Out Styling. Long time CSS evangelist Chris Coyier will talk about how you can style things on their way into view on a webpage, and on their way out. Of course, with […]
I was at a school function the other day where the 2nd graders performed a bunch of Aesop’s Fabels and it was great. It was a double-header with 3rd graders who then read prepared reports on famous people. It was cross-disciplinary thing as the kids brought props from design class, costumes from performing arts, and […]
I mean… it’s not really, of course. I just thought such a thing would start to trickle out to people’s minds as agentic workflows start to take hold. AI agents are already up in your codebase fingerbanging whole batches of files on command. What’s the difference between a CMS taking some content and smashing it […]
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.
