Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code

And what I’ve learned from teaching others

Before you learn to code, think about what you want to code

Stock photos that don’t suck

A list of places to find the best free stock photos

Don’t Fuck Up the Culture

On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in…

Responsive Design: Why and how we ditched the good old select element

How rethinking the way users…

Responsive Design: Getting Advanced Filtering Right

A practical example

Photoshop is Dead: How to use Keynote with Font Awesome

To rapidly prototype apps and websites

Designing User Interfaces for My Mother

Takeaways for keeping my interfaces friendly to the…

Coding in color

How to make syntax highlighting more useful

This is what syntax highlighting looks like for most of us.

Designing Mobile First

Build a responsive design that works across devices

CSS “background-overflow”

Looking behind the mask of CSS backgrounds.

If you’ve been developing modern websites for any length of time I’d be surprised if you hadn’t run into a little CSS1 property named ‘background’. In fact, it may have been the first…