On this week’s episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Kevin Powell. He’s a designer, a software engineer, and an expert in CSS. He’s runs a CSS-focused YouTube channel with nearly a million subscribers. There’s nothing sensational there – he literally just teaches people CSS.
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CORRECTION: I (Quincy) say during the interview that the Uber found a way to access microphones on iOS without users’ knowledge. There have been documented cases of malware doing this (like Pegasus) but Uber didn’t do this. They did do a lot of other shady things, like continue collecting data even after you deleted their app – but mic spying was not one of them. Yes, early Uber was an ethical tire fire. But it’s important to get facts right here.
We talk about:
Why you should still learn CSS in 2025
How teaching concepts improves your own understanding of them
How learning to skateboard helped Kevin escape Tutorial Hell
Massive improvements coming to CSS
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Links we talk about during our conversation:
Kevin’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/kevinpowell
Original Space Jam website Kevin mentions: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
The article that coined the term Responsive Design: https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/
Kevin’s freeCodeCamp article on how learning skateboarding helped him out of tutorial hell: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-learning-to-skateboard-helped-me-find-a-way-out-of-tutorial-hell/
Kevin’s freeCodeCamp course on building and deploying a portfolio page: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-portfolio-website-and-deploy-to-digital-ocean/
Playable Minesweeper in CSS that Quincy mentions: https://codepen.io/bali_balo/pen/BLJONZ
Acknowledged mistakes that are permanently coded into CSS: https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
Talk on why is CSS so weird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHUtMbJw8iA
Source: freeCodeCamp Programming Tutorials: Python, JavaScript, Git & MoreÂ
