Need to chuck a quick SVG drawing into some content?
Here are some options. tldraw https://www.tldraw.com/ Perfect Freehand https://www.perfect-freehand.com/ Concepts (iPad) https://concepts.app/en/
My Work Identity
Iām 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. š«¶
Things I'm Doing
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 
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
Iām big on the power of writing as a way to think better and improve yourself.
Doing it all for my daughter Ruby š.
For Fun
I like old time music šŖ and try to play it as often as I can manage.
Finding a Moment in a Podcast
I just blogged about a little moment in a podcast that stuck with me. I remembered a little micro comment about how rabbits eat their young sometimes. I wanted to listen to it again. How do I find it? Their podcast page/notes don’t have “jump links” of any sort. They don’t do transcripts, so I […]
The Pick & Choose
Great episode of You’re Wrong About: Lesbian Seagulls. It’s this look at ā not just Seagulls ā but the history of science observing same-sex pairings in nature. You’d think, because of the nature of science, people would just observe and report things as they happen. Like, what good is science if you don’t do that? […]
How have you stayed motivated to work on the same thing in the same space?
A friend asked me that recently, adding: “Do you ever just wake up and think wow I just truly don’t care?” I like the question because, frankly, I do have a decent tenacity for my projects. CSS-Tricks was about 15 years old when I sold it. It’s been almost 12 years since I started working […]