In this week’s newsletter, I share a ton of the stuff that’s inspiring me and, now that I am fully booked until 2026 (!!!!), reflect on 2025 as a sales year: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

View transitions are pretty neat, and I was fortunate enough to write a piece for @piccalil.li about putting them to work. They're such an exciting new part of the web platform, and I'm elated to see new and boundary-pushing effects making their way into production. #WebDev #ViewTransitions #CSS

Got my second video done! I can really see why people hire editors. Takes forever to edit this stuff. A Professional Web Designer Reviews YOUR Websites (Episode 2) youtu.be/VB7LTc8pmSA

Tinted Liquid Glass forever.

The latest update to Safari on macOS Sequoia is utterly broken. Does anybody know how I can fix this? Everything is slow. Even scrolling is juddery. Changing tabs is like sifting through molasses. nathansnelgrove.com/2025/10/the-...

This week in the studio, I launched a YouTube channel for BTS stuff. That plus a ton of interesting links and a brief status update on other projects: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

I launched a YouTube channel! In my first video, I reviewed three websites and shared practical tips anyone can apply to their own site. If you run a business or care about good design, you might find it useful (or entertaining). Blog post + video 👉 wildfirestudios.ca/blog/reviewi...

This week behind the scenes at the studio: I've discovered an interesting new-to-me e-commerce option for NPOs, and I attempted to record my first YouTube video for the studio. wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

This week in the studio, I’ve spent a lot of time looking for a replacement to Snipcart, the e-commerce tool I’ve used for nonprofits sites for half a decade. Here’s what I found: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

This week, I set up my studio for video recording. See a bit more BTS in the weekly newsletter: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-... (I mildly regret not detailing the whole signal chain, but another time.)

Inspired by @nickheer.com‘s review, I (finally) unpack my thoughts on Apple’s “Liquid Glass” UI. Why this? Why now? nathansnelgrove.com/2025/10/rega...

In this week's BTS at the studio, I share a few websites and CSS tricks that are inspiring me — and cross the finish line on a bunch of projects. wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

This week at the studio: I went on a business retreat and came back with a clear quarterly plan. And a cold. I also adopted a cold. wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

In my weekly BTS update from my studio, I share a few websites that are inspiring me and a look at a website design in progress. wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

The monitor situation at Apple is starting to make me grouchy. nathansnelgrove.com/2025/09/the-...

This week's update from my studio is about navigating burnout and creative lulls. In the words of Dory, just keep swimming, right? I don't know. I'm learning and sharing as I go. wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

In which I continue to rant and rave about how awful Safari is in iOS 26 (and share a few things that are inspiring this week): wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

iOS 26 has been such a nightmare to work with, even for websites and web apps. I cannot tell you how many hours I have spent with clients whose websites are going to be affected in major and minor ways by Apple's design changes to Safari.

@moodsoup.bsky.social creates awesome and bold p5 typographic experiments. If I were you I’d press the follow button on his account!

In this week's Studio Missive, Wildfire Studio turns 12, and I share cool design from other folks in the industry: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-... It's really nice to share cool work other people are doing.

My independent design and front-end studio turns 12 today, and I've now been freelancing for a total of 14 years. I asked folks on social media and some friends and family if they had any retrospective questions for me. Today is a pretty good day. wildfirestudios.ca/blog/twelve-...

🤩 View Transitions excitement!

I guess now is a good time to finally play through Hollow Knight?

This is cool as heck. Can't wait for broader browser support and for people to update their browsers. CSS is awesome.

Pinging again. No interest so far. (I'm not concerned, but seriously, AMA.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s important that creative people like the tools they use, but I am also trying to talk myself out of buying a Pro Display XDR: nathansnelgrove.com/2025/08/its-...

My freelance studio turns 12 on Thursday (and I have now been freelancing for 14 years). I'm thinking of putting a Q&A up of some kind on my blog. Ask me any questions you want!

Here's what's happening in my studio this week: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

I reimagined the hero section of Time's website with modern CSS. I hope you like it! ishadeed.com/article/time...

I know this is the second post I've shared this morning, but I also wrote this over the weekend: "Doing the hard thing, even if it's working out in the morning before your first cup of coffee, and you would rather die." nathansnelgrove.com/2025/08/doin...

Exploring how vector-effect scales SVGs in Chrome and Safari: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/scaling... #css #webdev

Spotify is an ad platform, not a music service: nathansnelgrove.com/2025/08/spot...

In which I get way, way too passionate about Jurassic World Rebirth: nathansnelgrove.com/watching/202...

Got tired of staring at glare on my Studio Display, so ordered the nano-texture version after months of deliberation. Which is to say that now there will be an updated display released in a few weeks, and you can thank me for that.

Where is Masonry? How will `item-flow` be the new way to create masonry-style layouts in CSS? What decisions are still being debated about how it will work?? webkit.org/blog/17219/i... We’d love to hear what you think about the decisions still to be made… which do you want as a web developer?

I actually burst out laughing at least four times.

This week at the studio: we're all a little crazy. wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

That little crazy train on google.com when you search Ozzy Osbourne.

Press X to doubt

I recently had to redesign part of a web app to accommodate iOS 26. It was challenging because it's a *web* app. Whatever redesign I make will end up on every platform. So just adopting Liquid Glass wasn't an option. I wrote a short case study about what the fix: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/redesig...

Published my second weekly studio missive this morning. In this one, I write about getting inspired by Nike and CSS, and I share some stylescapes I made for a client: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-...

They really shouldn’t be allowed to call it the World Series until they make it truly international and combine baseball and cricket.

Just published my first "studio missive," which probably needs a name that sounds less highfalutin: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/studio-... Read about what's been inspiring me this week and what I've been working on. Really excited to put these out every week!

Looks like a really good implementation so far!

Just prepped my first studio missive newsletter to go out tomorrow morning. Inside each newsletter are a few inspiring things from the design and development world, and a peek at what I’m working on. Sign up here: wildfirestudios.kit.com/signup

I've set up a newsletter for my design studio! Brief notes about what's inspiring me and what I'm working on, published every Friday. Sign up here to get the first issue this week: wildfirestudios.kit.com/30f8a06835

I accidentally redesigned my portfolio when I just wanted to write a blog post: wildfirestudios.ca/blog/2025-po...

I've spent a lot of time in my career thinking about how our tools influence what we make, and AI is no different. Some recent thoughts on the matter (influenced by Shane Parrish's great book, *Clear Thinking*): nathansnelgrove.com/2025/07/arti...

Found a (very minor) leak in our house this morning, which is now obviously all I can think about. Hard to remember to have perspective: many homes have flooded before (including ours!), and this is much easier to fix.

Stumbled on to a new-to-me part of the CSS spec that helped me solve a common problem in a simple, easy way. Fix grid and flexbox layout problems with display:contents: nathansnelgrove.com/2025/07/fix-...