Kevin Powell

Helping people fall in love with CSS

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2025-10-02 14:08:59 GMT

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The full episode with @npub1jpy…yfwv is out now 😊
On YouTube: https://youtu.be/lm68alCJI50
Audio-only version: https://zencastr.com/General-Musings-with-Kevin-Powell

2025-09-18 21:39:34 GMT

Had a great conversation with @npub1jpy…yfwv today. We both toyed around with the web as a hobby in the late 90s before eventually turning it into a career much later on.
We talked a lot about that, but then got into accessibility. I just loved how she referred to it as "a heart thing" 😊
Full conversation will be up on the second channel in a few weeks (I actually have a backlog over there now!), but you can always subscribe so you don't miss out 😉
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@GeneralMusings
🎙️ https://zencastr.com/General-Musings-with-Kevin-Powell
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/115/227/457/297/771/167/original/e11fac6591241097.mp4

2025-08-11 15:17:12 GMT

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I prefer consuming written content most of the time too, but much prefer making video vs. writing... and luckily enough people seem to like it, lol.
I do find it strange they dropped that from the survey as well though.

2025-01-15 13:43:59 GMT

Caught something over the holidays that gave me a cough. I even lost my voice at one point.
Been feeling fine for the past ~4 days, though, so figured it's time to get back on track with my recordings!
Hit record, say like four words and then I start coughing like crazy and it just won't stop 🙃

2025-01-11 13:49:04 GMT

I was going to hold off until Monday, but I got all the thumbnails, end screens, and whatnot finished, so figured there was no reason to wait :)
New, free course: HTML & CSS for Absolute Beginners https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4-IK0AVhVjOJs_UjdQeyEZ_cmEV3uJvx

2025-01-06 19:19:18 GMT

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yeah that totally makes sense! I was thinking of a single error box, but only because I had a very simple form.
With multiple inputs, should they use aria-invalid on the element, and aria-errormessage for the error itself?

2025-01-06 14:03:51 GMT

a11y question: Is there a situation where you wouldn't want to use a `role="alert"` on error messages for form submissions?

2024-12-11 20:30:02 GMT

I'm working on a new free course to replace my HTML & CSS for beginners playlist which is now 8 years old. Figured it could use an update!
That old playlist has 25 videos in it... I've managed to record over 60 for the new version. Seemed like a great idea until it came time to edit them, lol

2024-12-10 14:04:06 GMT

Last week I had some high-ish priority things on my to do list, so naturally I ended up working on a side-project instead.
I told myself I'd get to the important things this week... instead, I started a new side-project.

2024-11-24 19:18:01 GMT

In this week's newsletter, I talk about how teaching CSS broke my habit of chasing quick wins, and manage to compare my journey in CSS to my days of avoiding the grind in World of Warcraft 😊
You can read it here, and if you like it, sign up so you don't miss any of them: https://kevin-powell.kit.com/

2024-11-22 23:47:12 GMT

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I mean, it looks like they tried to wipe it off at least. Mine would have just left a giant glob on there, and then blamed someone else, even if they're the only ones who use that toothpaste

2024-11-22 19:02:09 GMT

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other than that early of a morning, that sounds a lot like my schedule 😅
I read instead of YT to sleep, but that also means I often take *a long* time to get through books, because I doze off pretty fast.

2024-11-21 16:35:00 GMT

So many amazing things coming to CSS these days, but I have a feeling anchor positioning is going to be one that gains traction pretty quickly because it solves such a big pain point and is pretty easy to use.
Explored it in this video: https://youtu.be/DNXEORSk4GUit
Browser support is far from perfect atm, but as I show in the video the polyfill is great. https://github.com/oddbird/css-anchor-positioning

2024-10-23 12:55:50 GMT

One thing with native CSS nesting that is constantly catching me off-guard is that you can't nest inside of pseudo-classes/elements.
Was playing with popovers and you can't put a @starting-style inside of :popover-open... took me way to long to realize what was wrong.
I knew this was a limitation of how it works with pseudo-elements, so I should have realized it sooner... so I'm partially writing this to let others know, and also hoping it helps me remember 😆
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/356/836/448/148/958/original/32117d75bf71118e.png

2024-07-02 12:17:34 GMT

Someone posted about a layout they were having issues with in my Discord community. When someone suggested they use Grid, they replied saying they were told by an experienced dev not to bother learning Grid.
I *hate* when I hear stories like this.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/112/716/848/807/772/143/original/b801966d97801e48.png

2024-06-14 18:16:17 GMT

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Publishing something there has made me want to do a redesign now, lol.

2024-06-14 18:15:14 GMT

Put out an article on my site (for the first time in 3 years!) going over my experience talking at #CSSDay
I'll have another one next week somtime going over all the other parts of attending, other than speaking 🙂
https://www.kevinpowell.co/article/my-experience-talking-at-css-day-2024/