John Polacek

I attended the AWS Summit in Chicago this week. Like many other tech companies, we at Gesture use various AWS products so it was a nice opportunity to get exposed to what is becoming possible with their platform.

Over the weekend, I gave a talk titled Rethinking CSS - Go Functional for Scaling, Performance & Simplicity at Front End Camp Chicago. The event was organized by the folks at Chicago Camps who do a fantastic job of putting on conferences for a great price.

Just published a couple articles, Kiss My Classname, A Counterpoint on Medium, and Build a Custom CMS for a Serverless Static Site Generator on CSS Tricks.

When I published Expressive CSS a few months ago, I knew it would be controversial, and it was (as evidenced in the comments on my Content & Display Patterns with Expressive CSS post). In the time since, there have been many articles and projects published by others that also advocate lightweight, scalable CSS using utility classes that are easy to write and understand....

We’re hiring a new developer, and I tried to capture a little of the flavor of what it is I love about working at Gesture, and do it in a hopefully entertaining way.

It was a rainy day in Chicago yesterday, so it was a perfect time to spend inside at Columbia College for UX Camp Chicago. It was yet another great conference put on by the excellent Russ Unger and the excellent team at ChicagoCamps.org.