View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) 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...

Hello Reader, Sometimes you run into a CSS problem, and you do everything right, but still can't figure out what is going on. You don’t pile on Band-Aids. You stop and think about why it’s happening. You narrow it down to a specific question. You search for an answer. And you get nothing. This happened to one of my students a while back. They added padding to an element, and that padding covered the text of the paragraph above it. They played around with it and tried a few different things....

Hello Reader, Yesterday I told you about the mindset shift that changed everything for me, and how I started working with the browser instead of against it. I’ve spent a long time figuring out how to pass that same shift on to others, and that’s why I created CSS Demystified, which is now open for enrollment. Before I get into the details, I want to tell you why I built it the way I did. I spent five years teaching in a classroom before I moved to online education full-time. And the thing...