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by commandlinefan 3021 days ago
Well, I liked it. I had never heard of BEM before, either, so I'll definitely take a look at that. What gets me about CSS is that, in spite of having used it now for about 20 years, I still don't have an intuitive feel for it. With everything else I work with, I start out with an experimental approach: if I change this, I see this, if I change that, I see this other thing; after usually a few weeks of experimentation, I develop an intuition for it so that I can usually predict what it's going to do before I have to see it do it (admittedly it took more than a few weeks to get to that point with Lisp and assembler). CSS, though, just seems to deny intuition; even after reading the O'Reilly "CSS: The Definitive Guide" book, I don't have the faintest clue what my CSS is going to do until I try it out.
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interfixus 3021 days ago
Hear, hear! Working exclusively in scss, maintaining orderliness and decent discipline, and having - like you - been at it for close on twenty years, I still keep a constant wary eye on my output screen, I still get regular surprises there, I still rely on the browser dev-tools, and I sorely miss the 3d representations they used to have, at least in Firefox.

I have learned to simply accept css for what it is: An unholy legacy kludge we have to live with. Just don't let's speculate on the millions and millions of wasted man-hours over the years.

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RobertRoberts 3021 days ago
>I had never heard of BEM before...

Welcome to css-tricks.com [0], where you will learn all the current trends. I am a regular reader for things just like this. Where you just want to know what's new and where things are going. Plus they have an amazing stockpile of CSS examples.

Second only to Mozilla Developer Network. [1]

[0] https://css-tricks.com/

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/

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pg_bot 3021 days ago
It's getting better as of late. I would spend some time reading up on flexbox and css grid if you haven't.
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