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Kevin Powell
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Kevin Powell
@KevinJPowell
CSS Evangelist
Helping people fall in love with CSS:
YT: YouTube.com/kevinpowell
Twitch: twitch.tv/kevinpowellcss
Courses: kevinpowell.co/courses
- Modern CSS can make a lot of impossible things possible, but it also simplifies some things as well. One use case that I have on pretty much every project these days is setting up a container/wrapper width with min() and margin-inline.
- 14 years married! We both forgot yesterday was our anniversary, lol. Good thing one of our moms reminds us each year 😅
- If you had a friend who was about to sit down and start learning CSS for the very first time, what advice would you give them before they started?
- While it isn't fully supported yet, we're getting very close to the dialog element being in all modern browsers! What is dialog? It's a native HTML element that is basically everything you've wanted to create a modal! If you want to know more, 🧵 time!
- Added a meme channel to my Discord yesterday... so far this is my favourite. Anyone else have fun CSS memes that don't 💩 on it?
- Nesting has come to native CSS, and if you're coming from Sass or Less, you might feel like you already know how it works, but there are some key differences! First up, if you are nesting an element selector, you must use an & before the selector or it's invalid!
- Was answering some comments on my latest video and had the thumbnail on screen for a bit and it got me wondering about making it with CSS... With it being "3d rotated", it just seemed appropriate to have it follow the mouse around 😁 Worth making a tutorial around?
GIF - Course launch 🚀 I've teamed up with @scrimba and @frontendmentor to give you a FREE course on how to build a space travel site 🪐 To celebrate, we’ll give away an annual subscription to both Scrimba & Frontend Mentor (worth $250+) to 3 lucky retweeters of this tweet! 🎁
- I'm launching a new FREE course in collaboration with @frontendmentor and @scrimba! We'll be: ✅ Creating a CSS design system ✅ Exploring flexbox and grid ✅ Talking responsiveness ✅ Making it interactive with JS ✅ Digging into accessibility 🚀 Launches tomorrow!
- A lot of people like to complain about CSS. Let's drop the negativity! What is your favourite thing about CSS?
- If you write CSS and aren't using Firefox as your dev browser, you're making your own life more difficult than it has to be. Their dev tools for CSS are 🔥
