I made good progress last week on several projects that will launch at the end of the week. I tried out Memento Mori as a way to say a stand alone archive of my Instagram photos.

Perfect for your workshop or garage, this handmade poster is a playful reminder to check one's accuracy before making a mistake. The birth of this print was kismet. Letterpress printing requires an un...

I would love to build the LEGO Sagrada Família set. I visited the church in 2024 and it is one of my favorite pieces of architecture. (I got my bachelor degree in architecture.)

I attended Front End Study Hall on Thursday. Continued work on three major projects. I was bummed to hear that CSS Tricks has gone quiet for a second time in four years.

I added a “copy to clipboard” button to my site’s code blocks back in February. It works as you’d expect, except for one detail.

I thought about dropping an addendum into my last post to say just how overwhelmed I am, in the best possible way, by the way all of you in the front-end community have shown up to show support, both for me and for CSS-Tricks. I started to do that but then felt a new post...

My computer welcomed me this morning with this picture on my desktop. It brings back a lot of good memories of walking from my fraternity house on the edge of campus to Marvin Hall early in the morning.

I had most of this one written on Monday. Slower week but I found some things to talk about. Enjoyed seeing my youngest again as we traveled to east TN on Saturday.

YouTube video by General Musings with Kevin Powell

YouTube video by Kevin Powell

It started with a question: should a hero be contained within a main HTML element. And like many questions of this nature with HTML, it's never clear cut and certainly not simple.

Front End Study Hall I attended Front End Study Hall this week. I participated more in the discussion this week. Joe kicked us off talking about HTML email and he mentioned MJML. I mentioned that MJML delivered on its promise to "make responsive email easy." I started using it six years ago and instantly hated...

I had a more normal work week after a crazy month of jury duty and moving two of our kids. But it was also a difficult week as I miss having our kids at home.

The highlight of the week was a roadtrip to Eastern Tennessee to move my youngest into her dorm. We also visited the Tennessee Aquarium.

Last week, Kevin Powell posted on Bluesky about the most common typo you make when writing CSS. I share my top two typos.

I had several adventures this week–traveling and in Chattanooga. I read a lot of AI focused articles this week that I resonated with.

Around the workshop My team launched two migrations from WordPress to Django this week. We moved our German and South African sites. The project started back in February. I had a part in building new pages in Django, adding hero images to several sections, and other odds and ends. My teammate Nicholas did most of...

I said goodbye to him a couple of hours ago. I have said goodbye to him a lot over the past four years. I said goodbye each year after I helped him move into his dorm at Murray State. I said goodbye the numerous times that I visited him in Murray. I said goodbye after...

I attended Front End Study Hall on Thursday. I discovered a new interface when I opened up Instapaper this week and I am not a big fan.

I was excited to find out that flex-wrap: balance dropped in Chrome last month. I added it to several layouts on the Revive Our Hearts site.

Last Thursday, I made a trek to St. Pete for the Front-End Design Conference.  Dan and Cherrie Denney are a class act and do an awesome job of hosting this event each year. It is a small, yet top shel...

I took advantage of a slower time at work to apply what I had learned from Chris Coyier about animating dialogs by refactoring some recent projects.

This week saw the launch of several projects I worked on in June. I started working on a major project that will launch in January.

I revisited a solution from three years ago where I used pseudo elements to add borders to a Flexbox layout. Now I can do it with gap decorations.

Learn about the new values of the background-clip property

It was a slower week. I enjoyed catching up with new CSS features through reading articles, watching videos, and working through a tutorial.

Over two months ago, I launched an update to my site. I would feel uncomfortable using the word redesign. Most of the work was behind the scenes.

I revisited a problem I tried to solve the previous week and came up with a solution by approaching it differently.

The Pastry Box Project

I noticed some recent changes to the YouTube player UI that affects using their embeds for solutions like video backgrounds.

I enjoyed working on a new project but was frustrated by an allusive solution to one of my ideas.

Learn Grid Lanes to create masonry layouts in pure CSS. Absorb the possibilities with the Field Guide’s interactive playground. Return to the cheat sheet. Get inspired by six real examples with dozens...