View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) PRE-S: Sending this week’s newsletter out early this week, which I’ll talk about more of why a little further down. Hello Reader, I’m so curious about how some of the new CSS features that are coming out now are going to impact how we author our stylesheets in the years to come. I think the one that might have the biggest singular impact might be the advanced attr() function, which finally allows us to use the values of data...
15 days ago • 5 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, I have two sons, who are now 10 and 13 years old now (time flies!). Raising them is surprisingly a lot like writing CSS, where something works when you try it in one situation, only to be frustrated when you try it again somewhere else and it no longer works the same. Like, I can get one of my kids to clean their room, including doing a great job dusting it and wiping everything down with just a small amount of...
20 days ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Last week, I talked about how CSS is like a strange puzzle. Like a regular puzzle, when we write CSS, we need to figure out how to fit all the pieces together properly. But it’s made more complicated because each piece can change it’s size and position. Despite that, we still need everything to fit together. There are so many variables at play at any given time that it sometimes feels like we’re just hoping for the...
27 days ago • 3 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, A few weeks ago, my dad and my 10-year-old son were working on a puzzle together. My dad mentioned that it was a pretty hard puzzle for a kid, and he was impressed with my son's patience with it (he isn’t always the most patient type 😆). The reason I bring this up at all is because one of the reasons that I often tell people I like CSS is because it’s like a puzzle. Just like with a real puzzle, where you do have a...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Another shorter email than usual this week. We’ll be back to the regular ones starting next week 🙂. 🙋♂️ What I’ve been up to this week Create a fun, quick text flip effect Not sure about the name and thumbnail that I made for this one, as the text doesn’t flip, so much as, slide in and out. I don’t know what else to call this effect, or how to make a good thumbnail to illustrate what's going on, so this is it 😆. I took...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, You may have noticed that I didn’t send out an email last week. This week’s email is going to be a short one as well. I have some personal matters that I’m taking care of at the moment, so I may miss sending one out next week as well; we'll have to see, but things will be back to normal here in another week or two. And because this section is shorter than normal, an apology to everyone who voted for the musings at the...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, My newsletter has evolved over the last few years to have a few distinct sections it and it got me thinking… what is it that keeps people signed up for my newsletter? Luckily, I have a way to find out! So, what part of this newsletter gets you opening them each week? What is your favorite part of my newsletter? The first part where I ramble about stuff What I've been up to this week Other awesome links from around the...
2 months ago • 2 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, As you might expect, I get a lot of emails. A large majority of them are from people who follow me, and fall into a few general categories: Replies to something I mention in a newsletter. Asking a question or looking for guidance. People simply letting me know they appreciate what I do. I like all of those emails, even if I have a hard time keeping up with them and don’t always have a chance to reply to everyone. Then,...
2 months ago • 7 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Today's newsletter is a bit of a different format. First up is a video I put out this week because I think it's one of the most important videos I've ever put on my channel. That's followed up by a story of how I got nerd-sniped by a perfectly fine solution to a problem I wanted to try and improve on, before we get back into the regular format. What if you suddenly couldn't type anymore? Salma Alam-Naylor, who you...
3 months ago • 5 min read