๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป"> Chris Coyier – Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.

My Work Identity

Iโ€™m a web designer, developer, educator, and business owner.

My Career

So far, the arc has been about running profitable companies that help you get better at web design and development. ๐Ÿซถ

Things I'm Doing

With Alex Vazquez, Iโ€™m the co-founder of , a social front-end web development environment.

With Dave Rupert, Iโ€™m the co-founder of a podcast called .

A Thing I Did

I built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022.

My Motivation

Iโ€™m big on the power of writing as a way to think better and improve yourself.

Doing it all for my daughter Ruby ๐Ÿ’œ.

For Fun

I like old time music ๐Ÿช• and try to play it as often as I can manage.

Flies

Listen, I had some flies in the house. I had a party, it was nice having the doors open, some flies got in, and they apparently set up shop. You can’t just wait them out. They live like a month. Too long. Not to mention I gotta imagine they were having fly sex in their […]

Trump says: With this order, I am announcing โ€œAmerica by Design,โ€ a national initiative to improve experiences for Americans, starting by breathing new life into the design of sites where people interface with their Government. It is time to update the Governmentโ€™s design language to be both usable and beautiful. This effort will be facilitated […]

Centralia Old-Time Campout 2025

My buddy Jason Chinchen made this highlight reel of the Centralia Old-Time Campout above. As Jason writes: The 2025 PNW gathering of old-time musicians in Centralia Washington. Appalachian fiddle music and other genres of old-time and folk music being passed down by ear as originally done. The Centralia Campout occurs every year on the sheep […]

Chalk Font Kid

I used to be able to indentify typefaces in use around in the real world as a kid. My mom would get a kick out of me noticing the same typefaces used by different brands on billboards and stuff as we drove around, as I recall. Nothing like this kid though, jeepers.