Iām 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. š«¶
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 
I built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022.
Iām big on the power of writing as a way to think better and improve yourself.
Doing it all for my daughter Ruby š.
I like old time music šŖ and try to play it as often as I can manage.
My grandfather and great-grandfather were plumbers, and my uncles on that side grew up working for the family plumbing shop. One of my uncles took over that business and runs it to this day. I came across this letter that one of those uncles wrote when they came by my parents house to fix a […]
Check out this layout I wanted to pull off on the current design of this site: See how just the first two boxes in the “sidebar” of the homepage are set side-by-side on narrow (mobile) layouts. One way I could have done that is to target the sidebar, and turn it into a grid at […]
I tried to get into Glass, but it didn’t stick for me. It’s partially because I don’t have many friends on it, and the fact that it’s paid-only means I probably never will. But also because it seems like the community spirit there is: only post really excellent photos. That’s neat but that makes it […]
Listen to Jim: Get a personal domain and start all your side projects as a subdomain of that top-level domain. Do not buy a custom domain for every little idea you have. Save your money, give your project the longevity it deserves, and show off who made the dang thing implicitly. Your personal domain is […]
