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.
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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, 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...
Hello Reader, Creating websites was a hobby of mine for a long time. I started making my first sites in the late 90s with Photoshop slicing, table layouts, and image maps. I never thought writing HTML and CSS would become such an important part of my life. After a wandering path of unrelated degrees, I ended up as a graphic designer at a small agency. I loved it, but the pay was terrible, so I started freelancing on the side as well, mostly designing websites. After a few jobs, I figured that...
Hello Reader, A couple of days ago, I talked about how CSS is designed for uncertainty, meant to adapt to unknowns. When we don’t think about it that way, we fight it. And when we fight it, things get messy fast. We add what seems like an innocent enough property, but it doesn't quite fix things the way we wanted, so we add another. Then another. Then another. By the end of it, somehow, everything is worse than when we started. Once again, there's a meme that does a good job of showing how...