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On today's episode, we're sharing a story from Miriam Suzanne. Miriam is the author of Riding SideSaddle, a novel written on 250 shuffleable notecards, and a musician in the band Teacup Gorilla. She's also a performer, designer, web developer and so much more. Miriam told this story in front of a live audience at Buntport Theater in June 2019. The theme of the evening was “Framed.” Special thanks to Miriam's band Teacup Gorilla for today's outro music! Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Join our mailing list or visit our website for archives, info about live events, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Key Points From This Episode: - Miriam’s advice for getting started in CSS, especially those coming from other languages. - How CSS provides the tools to deal with its inherent and absurd lack of control. - The history of browsers with style capabilities and how CSS was a response to that idea. - We learn why Miriam is ambivalent to tools like Tachyon or Tailwind. - What developing Sass helped Miriam learn about CSS, and why Sass can’t contextualize the complexity of CSS for users. - The design systems approach Miriam chooses, depending on the client, and she loves Sass. - Addressing scoping – Miriam describes how her preferred tool, View Solution works. - Some common scoping or CSS patterns that Miriam disagrees with, and the patterns or paradigms she thinks deserve more attention. - Miriam talks about the CSS spec work she is doing and why she felt the need to do it. - Problem-solving when debugging – Miriam suggests looking at browser dev tools and property when inspecting an element. - Miriam explains the layout models in CSS, and how others can understand them better. - CSS is communicating meaningfully to the browser, how to make smart decisions for us. - Masonry layout – what it is, why it’s considered the holy grail layout, why it’s tough to build. - CSS, specs, browser implementation, and rules – Miriam lays out what CSS actually is. - Which of the things that are broken or unintuitive in CSS Miriam would like to change. - The panel shares the worst thing they have done in CSS and the thing they are proudest of. - Miriam shares her worst CSS experience, which was during the height of maintaining Susy. - Tessa’s picks include Mozilla Developer videos and CSS The Card Game. - Ben’s picks this week involve fixing back pain with a massage gun and a song called Funny. - Miriam shares her picks, including A CSS showcase called Style Stage, the Layout Land videos, and an ASL dictionary. - To close the show is Ari’s pick, which is simply Queen by Perfume Genius. Tweetables: - “[CSS is] a collaboration with browsers and with users, everything is contextual, it's meant to be that way. Browser differences are a feature, your code breaking is a feature… That’s just the way it is. It’s one weird big performance art.” — @mirisuzanne [0:02:36] - “CSS is all about communicating meaningfully to the browser how to make smart decisions for us. Telling it this is a flex situation, or this is a grid situation, or this is a float situation is meaningful information that the browser can use to make decisions on our behalf in contexts we haven't thought about.” — @mirisuzanne [0:34:18] - “My key to writing CSS is always try to convey as much information as we can to the browser in small ways.” — @mirisuzanne [0:34:28] - “Responsive web design taught us to remove all intrinsic sizes and put a percentage on everything, everything is fluid. If you’ve ever heard Jen Simmons talk about intrinsic design, she's trying to push back on that one aspect of responsive.” — @mirisuzanne [0:47:44] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: - Miriam Suzanne on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mirisuzanne) - Miriam Suzanne on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirisuzanne/) - Miriam Suzanne on GitHub (https://github.com/mirisuzanne) - Miriam Suzanne (https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/) - OddBird (https://www.oddbird.net/) - Teacup Gorilla (https://www.teacupgorilla.com/) - Grapefruit Lab (https://www.grapefruitlab.com/) - Riding Sidesaddle* (http://www.springgunpress.com/riding-sidesaddle-miriam-suzanne/) - The Post-Obsolete Book (http://www.post-obsolete.com/) - Why is CSS So Weird? (https://youtu.be/aHUtMbJw8iA) - Storybook (https://storybook.js.org/) - Mozilla Developer on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh5UlGiu9d6LegIeUCW4N1w) - CSS The Card Game (https://github.com/hanilim/css-the-card-game) - Tierney's gist for playing Among Us "locally" (https://gist.github.com/bnb/b3775122759fe22c9628ac284bd96bfb) - Theragun (https://www.theragun.com/) - Funny (https://youtu.be/uDE5ygucFyY) - Style Stages by Stephanie Eckles (https://stylestage.dev/) - Layout Land on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/LayoutLand) - ASLU Dictionary by Bill Vicars (https://www.lifeprint.com/)Freedom is a Constant Struggle (https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Constant-Struggle-Palestine-Foundations/dp/1608465640) - Queen (https://youtu.be/Z7OSSUwPVM4) - Enjoy the Vue on Twitter (https://twitter.com/enjoythevuecast?lang=en) - Enjoy the Vue (https://enjoythevue.io/) Special Guest: Miriam Suzanne.

Tonight, Christie talks to Josie Cool about how she is coping during quarantine. We discuss how her partner has become her coworker, we reminisce about our friend Jordan, and we talk about our hope that this isolation will help people have more empathy for the LGBTQ community. Nothing to plug. At least the world isn't burning. Art by Geoff Tice Theme Song by Spanish Loves Songs Featured music by Teacup Gorilla    

Episode 13 is the second part of my interview with Josie Cool. In the first episode we talked about the death of her father and grandmother, her decision to transition, and her life as a trans woman. In this episode, we talk about her thoughts of suicide, self-destructive stage antics, and trying to live a life of self-acceptance.   You can hear Teacup Gorilla here:  https://teacupgorilla.bandcamp.com/releases   Ersatz Robots Bandcamp page is here:  https://ersatzrobots.bandcamp.com/releases   Great American Housefire:  https://greatamericanhousefire.bandcamp.com/

Episode 12 is part 1 of my interview with Josie Cool. Josie is a trans musician from Denver, Colorado. Josie is the guitarist in Teacup Gorilla and a brand new band called Altar Girls. She's also the drummer in the all-trans band Ersatz Robots. She is formerly the guitarist in Great American Housefire.   We covered so much ground in our interview that I decided to break it into two parts! Part 2 will be released at 12:01AM on June 2nd, 2019!   You can hear Teacup Gorilla here: https://teacupgorilla.bandcamp.com/releases   Ersatz Robots Bandcamp page is here: https://ersatzrobots.bandcamp.com/releases   Great American Housefire: https://greatamericanhousefire.bandcamp.com/

Episode 188: It's graduation season, so today we're sharing a story from first-time storyteller Lisa Jerez Artus. Lisa told her story—while dressed in full cap and gown regalia—on 15 May 2019 at Buntport Theater in Denver, Colorado. The theme of the show was "Alter Egos." A very special thanks to Teacup Gorilla, who provided the outro music for this episode. As always, you can subscribe, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts. For the latest information about our live shows or special events, please check our Facebook page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 181: Today's story comes from one of our long-time favorites, Colleen Leggett. She shared this story about fitting in, fundamentalist Christian summer camp, and middle-school dating at our January 2019 show. Colleen's story was recorded live at Buntport Theater in Denver, Colorado; the theme of the evening was "Habit." Special thanks to Teacup Gorilla, who provided the outro music for today's episode! As always, you can subscribe, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts. For the latest information about our live shows or special events, please check our Facebook page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 174: Today's story comes from our own Erin Rollman. Erin is a founding member of Buntport Theater and the co-host of The Narrators. Erin originally told this story on 17 October 2018 at Buntport Theater in Denver, Colorado. The theme of the evening was "Guts." A very special thanks to Teacup Gorilla, who provided the outro music for today's episode. As always, you can subscribe, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts. For the latest information about our live shows or special events, please check our Facebook page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josselyn Cool (Great American Housefire, Teacup Gorilla) "I remember like it being my birthday and I'd blow out the birthday candles and I'd wish that I'd wake up a girl the next morning and like, ya know, it'd have to be a thing where...where everyone always knew that I was a girl not that like I instantly changed into being a girl." On this episode of Behind The Scene: Guest: Josselyn Cool (Great American House Fire, Teacup Gorilla) Official Site: facebook.com/GreatAmericanHouseFire The song for this episode is called 'Molotov Coctail Hobbyist' and is a new track off the coming album from Great American House Fire. Listen above and as always, subscribe direct on iTunes and Google This episode brought to you by Breckenridge Brewery and A Small Print Shop

Christie Buchele (Comedian) "I do have a disability so a lot of people might assume that I was maybe picked on and needed humor to like combat the bullies but I wasn't really made fun of too much...I do think that people kind of just avoid you though so humor was more of a way of like them not being afraid to talk to me or be around me." On this episode of Behind The Scene: Guest: Christie Buchele (Comedian) Official Site: christiebuchele.rocks The song for this episode is called "Just Like That" from the Denver band Teacup Gorilla, one of Christie's favorite Denver bands. Listen above and as always, subscribe direct on iTunes and Google This episode brought to you by Breckenridge Brewery