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.
This is a little negative-nancy-ish, so if you aren’t feeling that right now — just close this tab 😜. It struck me recently how this list of plugins I saw in the 2023 Annual WordPress Survey wasn’t full of fun and interesting plugins that do interesting and unique things, they mostly just fix boring problems […]
I know a guy who doesn’t like electronic instrument tuners. He just uses whatever device is in front of him, goes to YouTube, and plays “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica. The guitar is in a standard E-A-D-G-B-E tuning and the beginning of the song has lots of those open strings being played. That’s all.
RenderATL (back in June) was a great time this year! The official video of me there is up, but the video just follows me on stage walking around, and you can’t really see the slides, which is where most of the real content is. I asked the video team if I could do a new […]
“Search Engine Optimization” Blech. I hate it. This is what SEO should be: And to be fair, that does work. That’s all I did at CSS-Tricks and was rewarded with decent traffic from Google for quite a long time. It was something like 75% of all traffic, so it was something I thought a lot […]
