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Life
Born in Madison, WI at St. Mary’s Hospital
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School
First day of Kindergarten at Huegel Elementary
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Life
Moved to Verona, WI (start of 5th grade)
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School
Graduated Verona Area High School
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Work
Start work at American Family Insurance (software testing)
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School
Started at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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Life
Attended my first Graves Mountain Bluegrass Festival
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Life
Help found Whitewater United for Peace
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Work
Started work at The Brass Rail Saloon (after going to court to get them to approve a bartending license after being initially denied for possession of marijuana prior)
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Life
Bought my first car, 2002 Saturn L200 (mostly so I’d have a reliable car for delivering pizzas, miraculously found a company to let me finance it myself: $10,000)
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School
Graduated University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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Work
Started work at American (prepress & print design) (American, or “American TV” as it was originally, closed all 11 locations permanently in 2014 after 60 years)
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School
Peak summer of The Missing String Band (My bluegrass/Americana band. Regular gig at The Grumpy Troll in Mt. Horeb among many others)
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Work
Started work at Suttle-Strauss (prepress)
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Life
Released album with side project band The Groggers
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Life
Started work at Chatman Design (web design)
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Work
CSS-Tricks launched
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Life
Moved to Portland, OR
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Life
Moved to Chicago, IL
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Project
Launched Are My Sites Up
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Project
Launched Digging Into WordPress (the blog)
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Project
Initial publishing of Digging Into WordPress (the book)
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Project
Digging Into WordPress (the book) v2
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Work
Start working at Wufoo (web design)
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Project
Digging Into WordPress (the book) v3
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Life
Moved to Tampa, FL
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Life
Got my first dog: Digby!
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Work
SurveyMonkey acquired Wufoo
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Life
Moved to Palo Alto, CA / Sold Saturn / Bought 2011 Toyota Tacoma
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Project
Launched ShopTalk Show
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Life
Sold Volkswagon Westfalia / Bought Jayco camper trailer
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Life
Last day at Wufoo/SurveyMonkey – Trip around the U.S.
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Project
Launched CodePen
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Project
Launched v10 of CSS-Tricks after a successful Kickstarter
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Project
Launched CodePen PRO
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Life
Moved to Milwaukee, WI
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Work
Went full-time on CodePen with Tim Sabat and Alex Vazquez
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Life
Sold Jayco Camper / Entered Land Contract to buy house in Milwaukee
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Life
Bought SylvanSport GO Camper Trailer right before first MerleFest (where we made the front page of the paper pickin’ in the campground)
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Work
Staffed up a bit at CSS-Tricks hiring part time writers/editors/developers/etc.
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Life
Completed land contract / Bought same house in Milwaukee
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Work
CodePen receives seed funding from Chris Campbell, Ryan Campbell, and Chris Sabat
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Work
CodePen hires first employee (Marie Mosley)
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Life
Miranda moves in with me
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Life
Completed first major home renovation project: front and backyard landscaping
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Project
Published Practical SVG (a book)
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Life
Moved to Miami with Miranda “for the winter”
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Life
We moved back to Milwaukee
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Life
Gettin’ married!
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Life
Moved to Bend, Oregon
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Work
CodePen gets new office in downtown Bend, sharing with CraftCMS
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Life
Me and Miranda’s daughter Ruby is born! (Also bought a 2018 Chevy Tahoe so we had a safe 4WD winter car for Ruby)
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Life
Bought a house in Bend
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Project
Launched microsites. One for listing conferences. One for serverless.
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Life
RIP Digby. Had to put the ol’ girl down. She got bitey even with children.
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Life
Broke both arms mountain biking
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Life
Traded in the Toyota Tacoma for a three-year lease on a Toyota Tundra.
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Life
COVID ruins life (for everyone, for years)
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Life
Hit by a van (turned in front of me) while riding my bike. Broke foot and got pretty banged up.
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Work
Moved to a new office (St. Claire Building)
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Project
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Life
Vaccinated!
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Project
Half a million followers on CSS-Tricks
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Work
Sold CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean
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Life
Sold Chevy Tahoe / Bought Tesla X
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Life
The three-year lease on my Toyota Tundra was up, so traded it in and purchased the new version: 2022 Toyota Tundra Platinum.
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Life
Probable death due to meteor apocalypse