I’m going to leave the title off this post and see what happens. Titles are a lot of pressure! I think there is a reason that the big text-based social networking sites (Mastodon, X, Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn, Bluesky, etc.) don’t have titles. Especially for short posts, the title just isn’t necessary. Just say the thing. […]
My Work Identity
Iām 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. š«¶
Things I'm Doing
With Alex Vazquez, Iām the co-founder of
, a social front-end web development environment.
With Dave Rupert, Iām 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
Iām big on the power of writing as a way to think better and improve yourself.
Doing it all for my daughter Ruby š.
For Fun
I like old time music šŖ and try to play it as often as I can manage.
Avatar: The Latest Live Action Version of the Beloved Series Avatar: The Last Airbender
I friggin’ love Avatar: The Last Airbender, the classic three-season Nickelodeon cartoon. I watched it only by chance. I had found out one of my uncle’s was called on to create some of the prop stone weaponry for the M. Night live-action movie version. When I found that out, the movie wasn’t released yet, so […]
Where I’m at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing
It was March 2022 when I sold CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean. So it’s been just about 2 years now. This was me and my wife’s thinking: After the sale, things seemed kinda fine for a bit, and that was encouraging. It was cool seeing new voices publishing new work I had nothing to do with. Then […]
Cops & Computers
I watched the Netflix Documentary American Nightmare. It feels like standard fare at this point, where we dip back a decade or two to some crime story that had a few twists and turns in it and make it freshly popcorn worthy again. This was the “is this the real life Gone Girl?” case. Denise […]