Hacking UI – Harry Roberts (CSS Wizardry)
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Hacking UI – Harry Roberts (CSS Wizardry) launched on November 10, 2016 with 61 votes, #972 of 3,636 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
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Today we had the pleasure of talking to Harry Roberts, the founder of the well-known blog, CSS Wizardry . Harry started his career as a web developer at a very young age and has become one of the world’s most well-known experts in CSS. He was named young developer of the year in 2014 by Net Magazine, and now runs workshops all across the world in large companies such as BBC, Google, The Financial Times and The United Nations. Harry has built an incredible personal brand and we’ve been following CSS Wizardry for years. We discussed with him exactly how he got started, what made him successful, and what he thinks is the best way to blog, build a personal brand and start a side project today.…from hackingui.com
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