About This Site
CSSquirrel is the personal website of Kyle Weems, where he waxes eloquently about the things he is passionate about, which mostly is the world of web standards, design and development. These thoughtful essays are accompanied by a weekly web comic that details his views of the web world from the point of view of a small red squirrel.
Additionally, you can check out Kyle’s babbled one-liners on his Twitter feed, or pictures of his cats on his Flickr photostream. He works at Mindfly Web Studio as an Interactive Designer and Humorist, based out of Bellingham, WA. It’s a gorgeous Pacific Northwest town that is about as far north as you can travel without being Canadian or Alaskan.
About Kyle Weems
Robbed of the title ‘firstborn’ by the birth of his brother a mere nineteen minutes earlier, Kyle Weems had to rely on cheap laughs to get through school when his plans of being ‘heroic’ were brought low by the realization in the first grade that his voice was too high-pitched to be properly recorded for his role of Robin Hood (in the play of the same name).
Although his voice has suitably deepened since (watch out ladies), he’s maintained that his failure to be taken seriously by his peers was intentional. After his bid to take over the world stalled from inadequate funding (the same issue that also tanked his participation in a cable station startup), and his various pizza-related stints failed to convince him that his future was in food preparation, Kyle begged his way into the world of web design via Mindfly, a Bellingham, WA, design studio.
After learning tables were bad, bad things, Kyle has embraced the worlds of CSS and web standards, and has proceeded to make an annoyance of himself by spouting off his opinions on the subject. In addition to his posts at CSSquirrel, Kyle frequently contributes to Mindfly’s web design blog.
Professionally…
Kyle is a Front End Developer & Humorist at Mindfly Web Design Studio, where he feverishly tries to get JavaScript and CSS to do things that’d make your mother blush and grandmother reach for a shotgun. He is also a developer for Boogaloo, an open source .NET-based CMS.
Press And Other Cool Things
January 2010 – SitePoint Podcast #44 “HTML5 is a (Beautiful) Mess”: I joined Kevin Yank of SitePoint, Bruce Lawson of Opera and SitePoint author Ian Lloyd in a discussion on HTML5’s recent messy politics, and whether that was negatively impacting the standard.
December 2009 – Refresh Bellingham Presentation: I spoke at Refresh Bellingham in a presentation entitled “The Ghosts of Web Standards Present: CSS, HTML5 and Mobile”.
August 2009 – An Event Apart Interview: I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the awesome Eric Meyer over at An Event Apart. It was a lot of fun.