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Rachel AndrewJul 20, 2026

I'm not someone who keeps a lot of memorabilia, but I do have a large collection of conference badges. Most of these are from events I spoke at, and a few from other memorable events. While decorating my new garden office I decided to pin them to a corkboard. It turned out that I had...

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Rachel AndrewMar 20, 2026

Look into the future of the web platform

Last week I spoke at the very lovely Web Day Out in Brighton. My talk was about browser support, based on the work I've done over the past almost five years on Baseline. I ran through the various things you need to consider when deciding whether to use features that don't meet your Baseline target....

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Rachel AndrewDec 31, 2024

Public speaking in 2024

In the before times—before COVID, before I was a Google employee, before the seismic shift my life took in 2020 and 2021—I travelled for around half of the year, speaking at conferences and leading workshops. These days, I don't do as much speaking, but I get to do some, and I've had some great opportunities...

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Todd LibbyDec 17, 2024

Networking

When I set out to give accessibility talks, I never thought I'd meet some of the best people ever

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Brittany EllichMay 29, 2024

Boise Code Camp 2024

My experience at BoiseCodeCamp 2024: talks on AI, OpenSCAD, and domain-specific languages, plus my first time speaking at a developer conference.

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Rachel AndrewDec 23, 2022

Thank you An Event Apart

With Eric Meyer at An Event Apart in 2016. Photo by Jeffrey Zeldman. It's Christmas Eve Eve, and I was adding the last of my expenses into Concur, when my work email account received a message. My colleagues, being more sensible than me, have vanished, so I checked just in case there was some actual...

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Todd LibbyMar 25, 2022

Give Us Some Space!

Conferences that jam accessibility talks together at the end of the day need to stop.

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Todd LibbyNov 14, 2021

ConnectTech 2021

Thoughts, takeaways from ConnectTech 2021.

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Rachel AndrewMar 10, 2021

Talk for axe-con: Grid, content re-ordering, and accessibility

It will soon be two years since I wrote about the issues around CSS Grid and content re-ordering on this site. We aren’t any further forward with a solution to that problem. With new ways to jumble up your layout such as Grid Layout Masonry, plus new tools which allow the visual generation of layout,...

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Scott SpenceFeb 16, 2021

Making Presentations with MDX

Ever since I first saw Sara Vieira’s slides form Vue London 2018 I’ve really liked the idea of writing a presentation in MDX. Sara used something called MDX Deck and it’s pretty dope! You write your slides in Markdown and sprinkle in other nice...

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Rachel AndrewJan 7, 2020

The CSS Layout Masterclass

I’ve got an all-new workshop for 2020, and so far I have bookings for SmashingConf in San Francisco, Austin, and New York. I’d love to see you there. I would also love to book some workshops in the UK and Europe. So, if you would like me to run a workshop at your conference, or...

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Rachel AndrewMar 12, 2019

Upcoming CSS Layout Workshops

I am increasingly spending my time giving CSS workshops, both in-house for teams and public ticketed workshops. I have a few planned over the next few months which still have availability, and would love to book in further workshops later in the year. Get in touch if you would like me to come to your...

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Rachel AndrewFeb 21, 2019

CSSconf EU, Grid Layout, and me

I don’t apply to many Call for Papers right now, because I just get so busy. If a CFP isn’t going to announce for a few months, I don’t want to apply and then have some other thing fill that gap before the decisions are made. One CFP I do tend to put an idea...

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Rachel AndrewJun 3, 2016

Creating an EPUB for Workshop Notes

I enjoy teaching people about CSS and in particular CSS Layout, over the last year I’ve developed a course which, in entirety, is about two full days worth of material if taught in person. As there is only one of me, and I can only take on a finite number of in-person engagements each year...

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Rachel AndrewMar 25, 2016

Making Sense of the New CSS Layout

At Fluent Conf in San Francisco I presented a fairly high-speed look at the latest modules for CSS Layout, demonstrating how they work together to form a new system for layout. O’Reilly recorded all of the sessions so I am able to share this video, with all of the slides embedded with you. See the...

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Rachel AndrewFeb 18, 2016

Learn CSS Layout with me – online or in person.

This week I have launched the first part of my online CSS Layout training course over at The CSS Workshop. The course is sold via our soon to be at version 1 Perch Shop. I like to add extra peril to my launches by launching them on our own beta e-commerce platform. As it happens...

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Rachel AndrewDec 31, 2015

2015 in Review

I turned 40 this year, my daughter turned 18. Some other statistics from a life tracked by SaaS applications. I have: run 1006 miles flown on 37 aeroplanes flown in 2 hot air balloons visited 7 countries delivered 26 presentations and 3 full-day workshops walked 4,786,447 steps posted 17 times to this blog written 17...

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Rachel AndrewNov 16, 2015

But What About Old Browsers?

I was very pleased to be asked to speak at Fronteers in Amsterdam earlier this year. The team put on a wonderful show and all of the videos are now online and worth watching. In my talk I covered Flexbox, Grid and the Box Alignment Module. I was aiming to demonstrate these as part of...

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Rachel AndrewNov 3, 2015

Three years with CSS Grid Layout

As I was updating my slides for An Event Apart in San Francisco, I realised how much complexity I was removing from the talk that I gave in May this year. I was able to remove this complexity based on changes to the specification itself, and it made me think about the journey this specification...

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Rachel AndrewJul 17, 2015

CSS Grid Layout at CSS Day

My presentation on CSS Grid Layout from the lovely CSS Day conference is now live on Vimeo. This is the most up to date version of fast changing material. Even so, since the conference on June 12th the specification has changed. One of the problems with Grid that I mention in the talk is the...

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Rachel AndrewJun 9, 2015

What does your audience need?

I speak at a lot of conferences, on topics as diverse as configuration management, business and front-end development. Rather than try and “build my brand” as a single domain specialist, I’ve decided just to embrace being a full-stack speaker. My daily work finds me in all of these areas, I speak about what I’ve learned,...

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Rachel AndrewJun 8, 2015

Development environments, configuration management and deployment

One of the things we have discovered while supporting Perch, is that many of the issues that come into support don’t have much to do with our software, and instead stem from development and deployment practices. Customers will develop sites in a way that doesn’t match the live environment, so on going live they are...

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Rachel AndrewApr 13, 2015

An oar, a cat, a bottle of wine and a chicken leg

When creating examples for books, articles and presentations I like to find bits of text from public domain books rather than using Lorem Ipsum. I particularly like Victorian books about cats or hot air balloons. I thought the following excerpt from The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation by John M. Bacon...

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Rachel AndrewNov 4, 2014

No Exit Plan

I’ve just returned from MicroConf Europe, an event I feel incredibly lucky to have been asked to speak at. An event where for the first time in a long time I really felt I was with “my people”. As Rob Walling said on Twitter, #MicroConf – one of the handful of days each year when...

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