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Quoting Julia Evans

The article summarizes Julia Evans' perspective on CSS, where she explains that she chose to respect and master the technology rather than dismiss it as difficult. She discovered that many long-standing frustrations, like centering, had already been solved in CSS, and that the complexity of CSS stems from the inherently challenging problems it addresses.

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[...] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology. So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously as a technology, instead of devaluing it. Doing that changed everything for me: I learned that so many of my frustrations (“centering is impossible”) had been addressed in CSS a long time ago, and that also what “centering” means is not always straightforward and it makes sense that there are many ways to do it. CSS is hard because it’s solving a hard problem! — Julia Evans, Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS Tags: css, julia-evans

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