View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, First up, make sure you update your browser, because there is a zero-day CSS vulnerability. In other news, one of the joys of being over forty is managing to throw out your back while you sleep. Luckily I already had a physio appointment lined up this week for another injury… so yeah, things are going great over here! Other than that, things are going well, though. I’ve made some good progress on my big update of CSS...
7 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Back in October, I travelled to Minneapolis to create a course with Frontend Masters, and while I was there, I recorded my experience so that I could share a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like. The first two videos in that series are now up on my second channel. This is something I’ve never done before, so there are some rough edges here and there, but I’m pretty happy with how they turned out! The final two episodes will come out this week. 🙋♂️ What I’ve been up to this...
14 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, When I first started teaching CSS, I quickly realized that while I could muck around and get a layout to come together, I didn't actually understand much about CSS. Students would ask questions about why something worked the way it did, and I wouldn't have an answer. I started looking for resources that explained why things behaved the way they did, so I could understand them better and, in turn, teach them better, but I struggled to find any that did. Everything would teach you...
19 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, First off, I completely forgot to send this newsletter last week, so this week’s has all my content from the past two weeks. As for the main topic of this week, after eight years, I’ve finally redesigned my homepage. For someone who talks about CSS all the time, I was a little embarrassed that I hadn’t redesigned it sooner. I think the old design was fine, and aged pretty well, but it wasn’t really anything great either. The new one is a bit more of a minimal approach, but where...
28 days ago • 5 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, First off, thanks to everyone who let me know my emails were being flagged as phishing. Apparently, Gmail (and maybe some others?) started flagging YouTube’s shortened links, which are the ones they give creators to copy/paste quickly… Gotta love big companies flagging their own shortened URLs, but whatever, hopefully this one gets through without any issue! As for the topic of this email, it’s become a tradition for...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Before we dive into the content of this one, I want to let you know that this will be the last newsletter of the year, and I’ll be back in your inboxes sometime in mid-January. I’ll still have YouTube videos coming out, so you can keep an eye out over there by making sure you’re subscribed (only like 4,000 away from 1 million!). I’ll also do a quick roundup of all the content I put out once the newsletter resumes. With...
2 months ago • 5 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, It’s hard to pick one thing because there is so much to pick from right now, but I think my favorite new CSS feature is anchor positioning. Check out this navigation that I’ve put together for a project I’m working on, where the underline and link highlight is all from a single pseudo-element. That’s all done with something like 20 lines of CSS! And, with a handful more, I created a decent fallback for browsers that...
3 months ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, A very short email this week, with a little less content than usual. Between the Black Friday Sale, my Smashing workshop, and a few other things, it’s been pretty hectic! Luckily I knew this was all coming and made some regular content for all of December already 😅. 🙋♂️ What I’ve been up to this week Getting started with CSS Nesting CSS Nesting is awesome, though there are a few important things to know about it, which...
3 months ago • 1 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, I hope all of my American readers had a fantastic Thanksgiving, and everyone else is having a nice weekend 😊. Every year, when we hit December (which is tomorrow!), I realize the end of the year is almost here and wonder how the heck it went so quickly! It always feels like there's still so much to do, and while I’ll be doing a proper year-in-review once we actually hit 2026, taking a quick stock of what I’ve done this...
3 months ago • 3 min read
