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.

It’s not the app it’s the apptitude

Casey Newton: … it is probably a mistake, in the end, to ask software to improve our thinking. Even if you can rescue your attention from the acid bath of the internet; even if you can gather the most interesting data and observations into the app of your choosing; even if you revisit that data […]

Being Picky about a CSS Reset for Fun & Pleasure

Just days before Andy revamped his (more) Modern CSS Reset, Dave and I were line-by-lining it on ShopTalk Show. Mouthblogging is fun and all, but so is Writemouthblogging, known colloquially as “blogging”. Allow me to do it again with my fingers on this new version. Obviously this is all subjective and you can and should […]

Dan Mall — Answers to Common Design Questions

Dave, on ShopTalk Show lately, has been in favor of reducing nuance when it comes to discussing and deciding on web stuff. Do this. No, don’t use that. Put this here. There is already so much it depends stuff, you can get lost. Can we get some answers around here, please? That’s a reason I […]

Kagi Small Web

I’ve been clicking the Next Post button on Kagi Small Web quite a bit. It’s like the StumbleUpon of yore (a “bar” across the top and randomized <iframe>d websites below) except all the websites it brings you to are people’s personal blogs. It’s just a charming experience because you land on websites that you’d very […]