I got complimented at the grocery store by how quick and efficiently I bagged the stuff. Maybe I should leave software development and focus in my true calling: bagging groceries at the supermarket.
@alvaromontoro I also find it satisfying to perform well in life's many mini-games. That and packing a car for a trip or moving-truck for a move can be enjoyable as a seldom-done task, but I feel like it would get old pretty fast as a job.
"Did you know that with only 20 lines of JavaScript you can do [enter amazing thing that can't be done in 20 lines of JavaScript]? Step one: create a new project using this huge @$$ JS framework. Step two: download these dependencies (that will take 2GB in your hard drive). And step three: copy these 20 lines of JS code... And you are done! You built something amazing in just 20 lines of JS!"
Every time I post a comiCSS cartoon that mentions Tailwind, I get some push back and complains from people. I should have been the bigger man and not reply to this comment... But I did.
On the bright side, it gave me an idea for a new cartoon with Tailwind as main topic. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
I have nothing against people using Tailwind. That's their choice and a great one if it works on their project. But making it their whole personality or trying to shove it down people's throats? That is sad and incredibly annoying... And one of the reasons why I make those cartoons.
Because it is coded with HTML and CSS, updating the text and creating variations is super easy—just change the text inside a div! Here are some alternatives... of course, Tailwind had to be in one 😅
@alvaromontoro Great comics as always! On a related note, I started coding my new personal website last fall using a Hugo template which included Tailwind. I struggled but got pretty far along, though I had to take a break to work on a big project. Now, I really want to complete my site, but I'm sort of dreading getting back into it. I can find plenty of good resources on migrating TO Tailwind, but nothing on migrating FROM it. Please sensei, could you recommend a good way to go from here?
Last night, I was re-elected as Vice-President of the Patsy Sommer Elementary PTA. Working alongside the PTA to coordinate and participate in school events has been an incredibly fulfilling and enriching experience. I can't wait to see what this new year will bring for our school community.
Someone somewhere some time in the past: "Yeah, let's call this CSS concept 'specificity.' It's the perfect word: descriptive enough so people understand what it is; yet weird enough so that non-English speakers (and some native too) won't be able to pronounce it correctly."
[Probably followed by a loud "Mwahahahahahaha" and some more evil laughter over a background of a stormy night and lightning.]
@alvaromontoro In German it's "Spezifität". A word that is practically never used and it's hard to pronounce for pretty much everyone the first 10 times.
I guess they searched for a word that is terrible in as many languages as possible. 😁
Bootstrap may be considered bad now, but it has done more for web development and styling than Tailwind has done (and ever will?)
Bootstrap may be boring and all the sites look really similar, but it brought web styling to people that didn't know how to do it. Not only for developers, but for anyone building a website. People that didn't know much about web development could build nice-looking websites (something that is reflected in an estimated 20% of the web using Bootstrap).
Yesterday, I did a small workshop about drawing with CSS and my experience drawing a comic about CSS in CSS at the Nerdearla conference. As part of the workshop, I created a small meme for comiCSS: https://comicss.art/?id=132