General Musings with Kevin Powell

Apr 21 2024 37

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I have a newsletter where I usually start things off with pretty long general musings before I share the content I've created in the previous week, as well as any interesting articles I've stumbled across in the last week. Not everyone likes reading or having more emails in their inbox, though, so this podcast is an audio version of my newsletters. They aren't tutorials or technical explorations like my regular videos are, but instead tend to talk about a wide range of different topics, though they're generally at least somewhat related to front-end development in some way.

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A conversation with Una Kravets: The rapid evolution of CSS and hobbies outside of work

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Answering your questions - Mailbag episode

Apr 14 2024 29 mins

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How teaching helped me become a better developer

Apr 07 2024 13 mins

In this episode, Kevin discusses the benefits of teaching as a way to enhance your learning. He shares his personal experience of teaching and how it helped him deepen his understanding of CSS. Kevin emphasizes the importance of building a strong foundation and filling in knowledge gaps through teaching. He encourages listeners to start a blog or any public-facing platform to share

Is HTML the easiest or hardest to get right?

Mar 31 2024 13 mins

The podcast is back! And in this episode, I talked about how the difficulties of semantic HTML. If you ask any front-end developer what the easiest language is between HTML, CSS, and JS, and everyone is going to say HTML, right? It's funny though, because most of the things I hem and haw over the longest are often related to how to mark something up in my HTML. Links * My newslette

Taking a short break

Jan 16 2024 2 mins

The year in review: https://kevin-powell.ck.page/posts/year-in-review-and-my-plans-for-2024 I should be back by March 😊

Quick one as we head into the holidays!

Dec 24 2023 2 mins

A shorter episode than normal as we head into the holidays. Other awesome stuff around the web: * Stephanie Eckles 12-days of Web [https://12daysofweb.dev/] * Oh No, Overflow! [https://css-irl.info/oh-no-overflow/] * Observation: color-mix and currentColor [https://blog.kizu.dev/color-mix-current-color/] * Elevate your CSS debugging skills with these Chrome DevTools tricks in 2024

Don't rely on this non-existent optimization

Dec 17 2023 11 mins

A recent video of mine has made me realize that a lot of people don't realize that cross-site caching isn't a thing anymore, so in this episode, I talk about that, as well as how we do still need to optimize things, how great CSS is becoming, and more. Other awesome stuff around the web: * The hanging-punctuation property by Chris Coyier [https://chriscoyier.net/2023/11/27/the-hang

It took me 6 years to realize I had a great idea

Dec 10 2023 11 mins

Today is a bit of a story about how sometimes it can take a really long time to realize that you've actually had a really good idea. Or, well, that's the case for me, at least. You see, I recently have become so excited about how we can use a CSS feature that I'm changing my approach to creating the core structure for websites going forward. The sort of final version of this idea I

Two important dev skills that don't get enough attention

Dec 03 2023 14 mins

This week, I focus on two of the most important skills a developer can have, which also happen to be two of the hardest ones to teach: * The thought process to break down more complex problems. * Being able to dive into existing code and quickly make sense of it. These are probably two of the most important skills you can have as a developer, but they don't get much attention becau

Is 54 units too many units, or not enough?

Nov 26 2023 7 mins

This week, I'm going to be talking a lot about CSS length units because one of the complaints I hear about CSS is the number of length units it has, with a total of 54 (not all of them are supported yet, though). That is a lot of units. But this is a feature and not a bug. Other awesome stuff around the web:z * Sara Soueidan's article on setting up screen readers [https://www.saras