Hello Reader,
On Saturday morning, I passed 1 million subscribers on YouTube.
I created my channel over 9 years ago.
Around 5 months in, I hit 100 subscribers, and at the time, I was blown away that so many people liked my videos enough to bother subscribing.
Three years later, I'd passed 100,000 subscribers, which I honestly didn't think was possible for a channel dedicated to vanilla HTML & CSS.
And now it's one million.
For a long time, I stopped caring about my subscriber count.
It's very much a vanity stat, and for the past ~2 years I've known I'd eventually hit 1 million. As the number slowly ticked up, it felt less like an achievement and more like something that momentum would eventually take care of.
But on Thursday, when I was under 100 subs away, I started to get nervous about it all for some reason.
This was never meant to be a thing.
I started my channel as a hobby project. It was an excuse to explore things outside of what I talked about every day as part of my job.
In a lot of ways, it still feels like a hobby project where I get to play around with CSS all day long and share some of what I'm learning along the way.
Without you, this never would have happened.
This hobby project would have eventually become like all my other hobby projects, fading off as I turned my interest to other things. I don't know where my life would be right now, but I'm in a very privileged place where I get to nerd out about CSS all day long, and it's all thanks to you.
So a million thanks for watching, sharing, and supporting me, whether you're a newer follower or have been around since the start.
This wouldn't have been possible without your support.
🙋♂️ What I’ve been up to this week
📺1,000,000
 I was originally planning to do a live stream today, but on Saturday morning when I realized I was about to hit the 1 million mark, I decided to jump on right away.
📺 Create a reflective glow effect with CSS
 I saw a Dribbble post that had a subtle glow on a button, but the glow was also reflecting on a border above and below it, and I wanted to see if I could replicate that effect 😊.
You can find the finished code here.
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⚡ Shorts
I’m doing a bit of an experiment with Shorts over the next few months.
I’ll be putting more of them out and mixing things up a bit, too. At least one each week will still be a quick tip like I usually do, while the others are me trying new things to see if anything sticks.
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🎙️ Podcast
Too many tools
This week I talk about the challenges of content planning and scheduling, and my preference for simple tools like pen-and-paper calendars over an excess of apps.
LISTEN ON: APPLE | SPOTIFY | YOUTUBE | RSS
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🔗 Other awesome stuff from around the web
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🏁
I've mentioned this a couple of times, but it's coming up quickly, so a quick reminder that I’ll be in Amsterdam for Smashing Conf from April 13th to the 16th, where I’ll be giving a talk, as well as hosting a full-day in-person workshop.
They have a bunch of ticket options, including student pricing. If you aren’t in Amsterdam, there is an online ticket option as well, and you can use this link to get a decent discount.
Have a fantastic week!
Kevin
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