First conference of 2018 was Smashing Conference in London. I had a new talk to present and was also doing a one day workshop. I find workshops exhausting, although I love the immediate feedback and the chance to see people get concepts right there in the room. The Smashing Conference videos are already online, you … Weeknotes 5
Slides, slides and more slides. That really is what I’ve been working on this week, getting all these talks and workshops sorted out. I’ve also written three, as yet unpublished articles, and started work on some examples for the MDN Web Docs. Ran over 30 miles this week, half of that as a long run … Weeknotes 4
I am well into conference preparation now. Smashing Conf London is just over a week away, and I’ll be presenting a new talk and updated CSS Layout workshop. I’m also working on a new talk for designers on Grid and other new layout methods. I’ll be presenting that at UX Immersion: Interactions. CSS Layout News … Weeknotes 3
This week Widget the cat had to go to the vet hospital for an operation. He is home now, quite angry at us, but seems to be a lot better than he was before the op. No flying lessons due to the continued suboptimal weather, but I’ve been to Cross Fit twice and run a … Weeknotes 2
I have something of a tendency to do stuff and move on, straight into whatever is next. I thought in 2018 I would have a bit of an experiment and write these weekly notes. Here is the first one, covering a little more than a week due to the weird Christmas getting back to work … Weeknotes 1
Time for another of these roundup posts where I look back, baffled at how quickly time has passed. TripIt tells me that I spent 158 days on the road last year, visiting 56 cities in 16 countries and travelled 184,988 km. That did include a holiday in Nice, but otherwise my travel was conference or … So that was 2017
The CSS Working Group would like your opinion. There is a longstanding issue in both the CSS Grid Layout and Flexbox specifications. From the CSS Grid specification: Percentage margins and paddings on grid items can be resolved against either: their own axis (left/right percentages resolve against width, top/bottom resolve against height), or, the inline axis … How should we resolve percentage margins and padding on grid and flex items?
As part of preparing for the An Event Apart talk that I’m giving for the next few shows, I published a survey. I wanted to have some more data on how people were using CSS and how they felt about new CSS features. This post is an initial roundup of some of the things I … CSS Survey Roundup
I am author or co-author of 22 books, book number 22 is The New CSS Layout, published by my good friends over at A Book Apart, and launching today. Book number 22 only happens because 15 years ago I said yes to book number 1. It was 2002, and I was approached to write a … Launching today: The New CSS Layout
As you might have noticed, I speak at quite a few conferences. For each event I create a page on this site linking to the slides, code and some other resources. I pull those together on my speaking page, which lists my upcoming and past events. I created the pages on this site using our … Announcing Notist