Normally I like to work or read on planes, but on a return home flight yesterday I was exhausted to the point that movies sounded best. Four (!) movies on Netflix:
My Work Identity
I’m a web designer, developer, educator, and business owner.
My Career
So far, the arc has been about running profitable companies that help you get better at web design and development. 🫶
Things I'm Doing
With Alex Vazquez, I’m the co-founder of
, a social front-end web development environment.
With Dave Rupert, I’m the co-founder of a podcast called 
A Thing I Did
I built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022.
My Motivation
I’m big on the power of writing as a way to think better and improve yourself.
Doing it all for my daughter Ruby 💜.
For Fun
I like old time music 🪕 and try to play it as often as I can manage.
Jeremy: The common belief is that nobody uses RSS feeds these days. And while it’s true that I wish more people used feed readers—the perfect antidote to being fed from an algorithm—the truth is that millions of people use RSS feeds every time they listen to a podcast. That’s what a podcast is: an RSS […]
Quite a lovely essay from Henry: When those promises of exorbitant wealth and a life of decadence through per-click monetization ultimately dry up (or come with a steep moral or creative cost), creators and learners must look for new solutions for how educational content is shared on the Internet. The most self-evident, convivial answer is an old […]
Default Apps Early 2026
It’s a time of slow change for me when it comes to the apps I use most regularly. I also maintain my subscription to SetApp, because I use a handful of things it offers that makes it super worth it: TablePlus, Typeface, Paste, CleanMyMac, Bartender, etc.