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.
Shaw with some helpful advice on live audio: A friend explained it to me like water. Gain is controlling how much water to let in, and Level is controlling how much water to let out. Lower gain means less sound picked up overall (which helps with feedback) and the level will control how much you […]
This all started here. Where that ended was ordering new gear that seemed better suited to this recurring gig than what I was doing. All that gear has arrived and I’ve used it now, and I’m happy to report it was a good improvement. The setup is: Those five inputs to to a Mackie ProFX12v3 […]
Brad follows up on some some of the chatter and happenings since the big Global Design System concept dropped. In addition to many of the positive responses, I heard plenty of skepticism, open questions, and apprehension. So much of it is valid and shared by me! Chris Coyier published a great post that sums up a lot […]
Great story from Chris Zacharias about slipping a browser support banner into production on YouTube that probably did more to drive down usage of that browser than the collective public whining of web developers at conferences. Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to? How would users react? Would they revolt […]
