Non Breaking Space Show № 82: Rachel Andrew — The Future of CSS Layouts

Today’s Non Breaking Space Show guest is Rachel Andrew. Rachel Andrew returns as our guest. She’s an author, international speaker, product is a web developer, speaker, co-founder of CMS Perch. She’s recently been writing and speaking about the future of web design layouts: CSS Grids and Flexbox.

Topics discussed with Rachel Andrew:

• 1:00 → Sponsors: CSS Summit, Uber, CSS Dev Conf, Feed.Press
• 3:05 → What book was that? What’s the title?
• 3:24 → How is the process for writing a book?
• 4:00 → What updates were needed?
• 4:40 → Bringing it up to date, HTML5 is old, but it holds up
• 5:24 → Perch, Perch Summit; how is it since we last spoke
• 5:56 → Perch Shop
• 6:22 → Perch allows you to drop CMS into HTML sites
• 7:05 → Features in Perch Shop
• 10:00 → Keeping up with VAT taxes
• 11:40 → What are the digital pieces of proof of location for purchases in Europe?
• 14:15 → UK voting on leaving the EU
• 14:40 → Small business struggle with the record keeping aimed at big business
• 16:33 → Christopher’s boring city tax story
• 22:30 → Speaking schedule
• 24:30 → How is flying in and out of the US?
• 26:15 → Are you a die-hard Omnifocus user?
• 28:25 → How do you have your projects set up? At home? Hobbies?
• 29:30 → I like the idea of context. Context should be a priority
• 30:10 → “Brain-dead option” in Omnifocus
• 31:50 → Talking CSS layouts
• 33:52 → What is the difference between CSS grids and Flexbox?
• 37:56 → Does Flexbox solve the problem of positioning elements?
• 38:40 → Is there a far less reliant on media queries?
• 41:00 → Layout at the moment is really hard
• 42:00 → As an author, how do you handle browsers and updates?
• 43:18 → When do you think CSS grids will be stable?
• 44:11 → Is feature browser flag the replacement for browser vendor prefixes?
• 48:30 → Rachel’s books about grids and layouts
• 50:10 → How did you get into running?

Non Break­ing Space Show is still free of charge to owners of Steph Curry’s dad shoes along with the show notes and resources: Non Breaking Space Show № 82: Rachel Andrew — The Future of CSS Layouts

Originally published at http://christopher.org/non-breaking-space-show-№-82-rachel-andrew-the-future-of-css-layouts/.