Learning CSS in 2023

KBall interviews CSS instructor & YouTuber extraordinaire Kevin Powell in a wide ranging discussion about CSS and how to learn it - what to start with, what to ignore, and various topics in between.

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Featuring

• Kevin Powell – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Notes and Links

• Take the State of JS survey!
• Kevin Powell website
• Kevin’s Youtube Channel
• Flexbox Froggy
• Flexbox Zombies
• Grid Garden
• Grid Critters
• Designing Intrinsic Layouts
• CSS Stats
• MJML (for emails)
• Utopia.fyi
• CSS-Tricks
• Smashing Magazine
• Josh Comeau)
• ModernCSS
• SmolCSS
• I am not a fan of what React has done to the web, but it’s VERY nice

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