View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, A very short newsletter this week, as I was busy with a few things this week and didnāt have my normal time to work on this. Very quickly, the company I use for my merch, Cotton Bureau, is running a sale for Black Friday. If you use the coupon EXTRAGRAVY at checkout, if you're in the US, you'll get free shipping, and anywhere else in the world gets 50% off shipping. šāļø What Iāve been up to this week Can I clone this...
10 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Todayās newsletter is a bit different. It's almost like a journal entry. I started writing it to try and help me figure out how I ended up where I am today with this whole CSS thing. I've been thinking about that a lot lately. I'm often asked how this became my thing, and my usual answer is to talk about the meandering path that took me here. That doesn't explain the why, just the how. And that's because I never really...
17 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, The normal general musings I usually open this up with will follow, but CSS has a new logo. CSS Next opened up submissions a while back, and this was the eventual winner, with a nice touch in using rebeccapurple as the color for it. You can see the different submissions and progress that was made in this repo One of the reasons for needing a new logo is the upcoming new āversionsā of CSS that will be happening, with...
24 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Stores around where I live are in full Christmas/Holiday Season modeāsome had Christmas stuff going up before Halloween, but itās in full force nowāwhich is always a bit of a wake up call that the end of the year is fast approaching. Itās kind of crazy that 2024 is already starting to hit the āwinding downā phase, with just a couple of months left to go! Itās got me thinking about my plans for 2025 a little, and Iāve...
about 1 month agoĀ ā¢Ā 5 min read
Hello Reader, In a little under three weeks from now, Iāll be doing a two-day workshop with Frontend Masters which Iām super excited for. First, it will be great to do a live workshop with some in-person students (you can also attend remotely). One problem with teaching via YouTube, or even my courses, is the lack of immediate student feedback. Itās beneficial for the students when they can have questions answered on the spot, but there is a bit of a selfish motivation from me as well! For...
about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 2 min read
Hello Reader, A day late with my newsletter this week, mostly because I completely forgot to write it last week! I have a spot on my calendar for writing my newsletter, but I was really immersed in a project Iām working on and told myself that Iād do it later, and then I simply forgot š
. Iāll have some news on what that project is soon-ish, but since itās Monday morning and Iāve got a few other things that need doing as well, letās just jump into the main content! š
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about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hello Reader, I'm writing this while sitting at the airport waiting for my flight back home, after having an amazing time at Smashing Conference! Standing on stage with Vitaly Just like when I was at CSS Day, there were a few names that I was like "wait, I'm sharing a stage with them?!" One of those was Brad Frost, who I'm going to assume a lot of people reading this are aware of (he's the guy behind the concept of Atomic Design). The other was Jessica Hische, who isn't as well known in the...
about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 2 min read
Hello Reader, Lots to share this week, so weāre going to open with some quick hits! Iāll be speaking about smart layout patterns with modern CSS at Smashing Conf New York on Oct 6-10, and there are still a few tickets left if youāre interested, and this link gets you 15% off the regular price. If you canāt make it to that, on October 24th Iāll be talking at JetBrainās JavaScript Day, talking about how all the things you donāt need JavaScript for. This oneās remote and free! The State of HTML...
2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 3 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, A short newsletter this week as Iāve been spending almost all my time working on finishing my course Beyond CSS. The end is in sight, and itās been head down for me trying to get across the finish line. About two more weeks to go and I think that final module will be wrapping up. And if you're interested, the top tier is on sale, but that sale will end once it's finished! šāļø What Iāve been up to this week Outside of...
3 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 2 min read