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 πŸ’œ.

For Fun

I like old time music πŸͺ• and try to play it as often as I can manage.

AI & Alignment

Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you’re using AI to code, maybe you’re feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other developers are doing that too. But software doesn’t seem to be exploding in quantity or […]

Stories from Alaska Folk Fest 2026

[Folk Fest] is not an intellectual experience, it’s an emotional experience. Bob Banghart Visiting Alaska gives me the feeling that people are chasing after when they travel: a little taste of what it’s like to be a part of another world. To live another version of life. Not just looking at it or fantasizing about […]

Just have such strong nostalgia for this song. Still slaps. Close second from MC Chris. Curious, this record isn’t streaming anywhere, and he just makes the album available as downloadable MP3’s in a Google Drive.