Weekly newsletter, where I talk about tangentially-related front-end development topics and share what I've been up to in the last week, plus any cool/fun/interesting/useful links I come across as well.
Nesting crash course, a fun gradient trick and a really hard quiz
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Hi! I'm Kevin
Weekly newsletter, where I talk about tangentially-related front-end development topics and share what I've been up to in the last week, plus any cool/fun/interesting/useful links I come across as well.
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...
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...
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...