We Are Programmers

Building websites is programming. Writing HTML and CSS is programming. I am a programmer, and if you’re here, reading CSS-Tricks, chances are you’re a programmer, too.

The thing is, the details in programming layout with CSS are different, for example, …

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The New Good Ol’ Days

Eighteen years into this game, I love to reminisce back to the good ol’ days of the early to mid-2000s when there was an explosion of creativity on the web. It felt fresh and unbridled, with boundaries expected to be …

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Everything and Nothing

I’ve been thinking about the question for a solid month now. What about building websites has you interested this year? The question pervaded my solitary thoughts and played in the background during my conversations. I’d love to just tell you …

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Smarter Design Systems Tools

What has me really excited about building websites is largely around design systems and the design tools we use to build them. Though, design systems are certainly not limited to websites.…

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Embrace the Political

The tech industry has long held the belief that technology is apolitical. People are flawed, but the machines? They are neutral. They are pure.

This is ridiculous, of course. People make the machines. We write the algorithms that can’t recognize

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What the Web Still Is

Being a pessimist is an easy thing to fall back on, and I’m trying to be better about it. As we close the year out, I thought it would be a good exercise to take stock of the state of …

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