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by GhostVII 3382 days ago
> Its adepts don’t succeed through technical skill so much as a kind of web whispering: feeling, rather than thinking, their way through a tangle of competing styles – in other words, those soft fuzzy things that women are supposed to excel at. That’s not true, of course; nothing on a computer is any more or less logical than anything else.

Front end CSS is definitely less 'logical' than backend, in the sense that for backend you need to ensure that your code is very structured, and you have to think through your program logic a lot more, but in front end, you do a lot more messing around with styles until things look good. There's still logic there, but to say that nothing on a computer is more or less logical than anything else doesn't really seem true once you are dealing with other libraries and frameworks.