Lea Verou (@LeaVerou) and Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) discuss the creative process behind her CSS Secrets series and the book of the same name she is writing for O’Reilly; loving JavaScript and math; Lea’s professional path, beginning with coding Visual Basic at age twelve; using CSS to layout a print book about CSS; creating popular Open Source projects like Dabblet, Prism, and CSS3 Test; the case for progressive enhancement; earning a living doing your own thing; leaving her job at the W3C (announced today); and much more.

Links for this episode:

• http://lea.verou.me
  
• http://prismjs.com
  
• http://dabblet.com
  
• http://css3test.com
  
• http://lea.verou.me/writing/
  
• https://github.com/LeaVerou
  
• http://dribbble.com/LeaVerou
  
• https://twitter.com/leaverou
  
• https://www.facebook.com/leaverou
  
• http://alistapart.com/article/every-time-you-call-a-proprietary-feature-css3-a-kitten-dies
  
• http://lea.verou.me/2013/07/leaving-w3c/
  

This episode of The Big Web Show is sponsored by Lynda.com.