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 šŸ’œ.

For Fun

I like old time music šŸŖ• and try to play it as often as I can manage.

A Good, Paywalled Article

The story The Town With a Song in Its Heart in the New York Times (warning: probably paywalled, but I did try to use a “gift link”) is one of those articles that is made for me. It’s a story about some little town I’ve never heard of, beautiful and full of charm, that takes […]

Questions for Conversation

A friend has a go-to question for a conversation starter, particularly among business colleagues: What’s a business you admire? He runs Frontend Masters and without blowing smoke, I’d put that on the list. They run a good ship over there. Let’s see what else. I’m a Kwik Trip guy for sure. I hate to make […]

A Digital Color’s Journey

Let’s say you were looking at a sunset with your eyeballs. You loved all the shades of orange that were happening. So orange! You took a photo with your modern digital camera. Later, you get the photo off your digital camera on your computer. You like post-processing your photos, so you used Adobe Lightroom to […]

Arc Usage Update

Much to my surprise, I’m still using Arc as my daily driver browser. I really respect how big of a swing this is for that team. It’s honest-to-god browser UI/UX innovation, in a way that it feels like bigger established browsers could never would never. It’s just fun to watch their journey. Browser engines are […]