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.
Maggie Appleton thinks there should be Speculative Calendar Events. I don’t want to add them as real events. Because they are not real events. They are speculative possibilities of events. The majority of them won’t be filled, and having both speculative and real events looking and behaving like the same type of thing is messy […]
I live in the Awbrey Butte neighborhood of Bend, Oregon. Say I was going to move to Butte, Montana. I could plug those into this app and get neighborhood comparisons. Much like Awbrey Butte in Bend with its hillside views and upscale homes, Butte’s Uptown also features prominent landmarks and historic architecture. Butte’s Uptown is […]
Robin: A writing tip for myself in the future, if I may (and I do): delete every use of “…for me…,” “in my opinion,” “some might disagree,” “I think,” etc. etc. These snippets are a bad habit and make your writing fragile, lacking any conviction, with one eye always over your shoulder. After a while […]
Just finished Fractal Noise. There was a bunch of controversy about that cover, apparently, which I was only aware of now in Googling around about the book to find the image. I don’t know what to say about all that, but I can say that the cover is extremely distracting. The entire book is about […]
