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.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable to want to use the JSX syntax but not need React. It’s a decent templating language that I bet a lot of people are quite comfortable with. Here’s a contrived example: If you were using React, you’d use ReactDOM: But that’s client-side. ReactDOM has a way to get it as […]
The wall art at my dentist is really straightforward: It’s not trying to be beautiful. It’s not funny. It’s not a metaphor. It’s not subversive. It’s not even a platitude, really. It’s just a reminder, I guess? Some words? The only thing it’s missing is a QR code that takes you to a website that […]
The cover image of my Facebook profile has looked like this since about a week after that photo was taken in 2015: I like that photo. It was taken in Haines, Alaska at Portage Cove State Recreation Site. I was younger then, so I suppose it’s unfair to keep that up forever. I’m older now. […]
I was at the airport the other day, and a guy who works for Delta told me he wants to use their website-based system to give a friend a flight voucher. He can’t do it from his phone, it just doesn’t work from phones (cool neat). He needs a laptop to do it, and asked […]
