I’m 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. 🫶
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 
I built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022.
I’m big on the power of writing as a way to think better and improve yourself.
Doing it all for my daughter Ruby 💜.
I like old time music 🪕 and try to play it as often as I can manage.
Stock and flow is an old post from Robin at snarkmarket. This was the most challenging and most fun thing about back when I was running CSS-Tricks. There was always tension between two worlds. One: feeding the day-to-day machine. Be a magazine, a newspaper, or at least an industry rag. Offer something to everyone who […]
The Pudding digs into the rarity of hearing women on country radio. The data is clear, but it’s not random or some “well there is just fewer hits by women” excuse. It turns out it’s an edict. What does it matter? Sniping a great quote: I’m trying to picture in my head a 10-year-old girl […]
Websites used to go down with more regularity than they do now. Twitter famously had the fail whale. But I mean more like “normal” websites, like this one. If Daring Fireball linked to a site and it went down, that community called it getting “Fireballed” and there was exotic solutions. If Slashdot traffic took down […]
Have you ever found one of these? It’s a leveling shim. Restaurants use them to quickly slip under table legs to keep a table from wobbling. If you find one, it is your sacred duty to keep it on your person until you come across a wobbly table.
