Bette Midler sings Woodie Guthrie
80 years old and killing it.
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.
AI & Alignment
Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you’re using AI to code, maybe you’re feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other developers are doing that too. But software doesn’t seem to be exploding in quantity or […]
It’s an assumed truth that Safari is better for battery life — without data to support it.
This pseudo-truth just bugs me. I hear it all the the time. People saying they choose Safari as a browser because it’s better for their battery. But there isn’t any data (that I know of) that proves that Safari is more efficient at battery usage than any other browser. I applaud Matt Birchler who did […]
Stories from Alaska Folk Fest 2026
[Folk Fest] is not an intellectual experience, it’s an emotional experience. Bob Banghart Visiting Alaska gives me the feeling that people are chasing after when they travel: a little taste of what it’s like to be a part of another world. To live another version of life. Not just looking at it or fantasizing about […]