Smashing Conf, CSS Day, and a special annoucement

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Hello Reader,

Looks like I’ll be in Amsterdam a lot this year!

First, I’m heading there in less than a month from now for Smashing Conf, where I’m giving a talk and an in-person workshop (I've got a link with a discount below if you are able to make it).

And, if you can’t make it to that, I’m happy to announce I’ll be back in Amsterdam in June for CSS Day!

I’m so excited to be going back to CSS Day again. Speaking there in 2024 was a career highlight for me, and I’m pumped to be heading there again, in what's shaping up to be a great lineup.

And if you can make it to both, I will be giving a different talk at each 😅 (not that either isn’t worth it for all the other speakers as well!).

Of course, I realize that attending conferences like these is out of budget for a lot of people. Smashing does have a "convince your boss" PDF, as well as a template email, and it’s always worth asking (and, of course, you could modify the email template for CSS Day).

You can save a bit of money right now though, as CSS Day's tickets are still in early bird pricing, and you can use this link to get a bit of a discount for Smashing Conf tickets, including the workshop.

And for those who can’t make it, I will be making some behind-the-scenes videos for both events, similar to what I did for my experience in creating a Frontend Masters course.

And if you’d like to watch my previous talks, here is my CSS Day one, and here is my one from Smashing New York. And if you watch them, yes, I was incredibly nervous being on stage… hoping to be a bit calmer this time 😂.

🙋‍♂️ What I’ve been up to this week

📺 Simplifying CSS animations

As the name implies, in this one I take a look at a few ways we can simplify CSS animations.

⚡ Shorts

Two new lines for your CSS reset (quick tutorial)
When tech interview tests are broken (snippet from my chat with Adam Argyle about finding a new job)
This blew my mind (snippet from my Smashing Conf talk from 2024)

🔗 Other awesome stuff from around the web

Dave Rupurt explore how people are not friction.
And a nice follow-up of that by Matthias Ott, on why friction is a good thing, not something we should try to avoid.
Chris Coyier has a couple of reasons to put a width (and height!) on images.
Speaking of images, Bramus looks at how light-dark() is about to support images!
Salma Alam-Naylor with a look at how to make your first contribution to an open source project

🏁

Before I let you go, I wanted to let you know the new version of CSS Demystified is going to launch in just over a week from now.

I've had people asking about what's covered, so you can now find the table of content here. There are a few other lessons that still need to be added, but that is what will be there at launch.

I will be adding new modules over time as well, with the next one being "Writing Resilliant CSS", which will be later this year.

Cheers,
Kevin

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