Hello Reader,

I’m writing this from the airport, a few hours into a nine-hour layover. When I booked the flight, I knew this would be a long one, but I have a pile of work to get through, so it’s been a surprisingly productive Saturday.

I normally try to avoid working on weekends, but over the last two months, it’s been more the norm than the exception. The launch of CSS Demystified, which just wrapped up, followed by my talk and workshop at Smashing in a few days (you can still get a ticket!), has been a pretty brutal combination.

But I’m very much looking forward to spending the next few days in Amsterdam before the conference kicks off, and then once it wraps up and I get back home, I can take it a little easier again.

There are times when some work just needs to get done, and we have to put the time in like I have been doing, both on nights and weekends of late, but for me, the important thing is that it isn’t the norm, and for the most part I’m privileged enough to be able to have a decent work/life balance most of the time.

I think a lot of us normalize doing way too much work without questioning it. I did for a long time, working full-time during the day, making videos at night, and also doing freelance work in there too. There’s always another thing to ship, another deadline, or another opportunity. It's easy to keep saying "yes" and keep doing way too much work.

But I’ve learned that I do better work, and more importantly for those who are close to me, I’m a better person to be around when I’m not running on empty.

This last sprint was something I had to do, and it was worth it… or well, it’s been a bit more than a sprint at this point, but you know what I mean.

Soon, it’s time to recover a little bit. And that doesn’t mean taking a few weeks off, but it does mean slowing things back down to a more long-term, manageable workload.

🙋‍♂️ What I’ve been up to the last few weeks 📺 Can I code up this UI in 10 minutes? ​ CSS Daily now has daily UI challenges, with a ten-minute timer. I recorded this one quite a while ago, so I was doing their challenge from March 13th in this one and yeah, 10-minutes isn’t very long 😆. 📺 3 modern CSS features to add to your reset ​ A look at scrollbar-gutter: stable, min-block-size: 100svb, and interpolate-size: allow-keywords.

Quick tips ⚡ CSS one-liner to improve form elements ​ A quick look at accent-color. ⚡ I’m a CSS Noob ​ A snippet from my talk at CSS Day a few years ago. You can see the full talk here, and I’ll be speaking at CSS Day again this year, with a talk on how CSS is eating JavaScript.

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Have a fantastic week!
Kevin

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