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  • First full module of the CSS course: fully drafted 💪

    It's all principles to help you become a better CSS developer, like communication, feedback, being the browser's mentor, not it's micromanger, fluid type and space, flexible layout, organsing code and progressive enhancement.

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  • alright where are all the new british people at?

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  • just heard a corker on the radio: “tweet us on X”

    I think that’s worse than “X, formerly Twitter” still being uttered, 12 months after a “full rebrand” (read: cultural vandalism)

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  • me seeing a picture of a cup of weak tea on the internet

    The italian dude being forced to look at someone putting a pineapple ring on a pizza meme https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2131299-pizza-crimes

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  • I honestly can't recommend getting into a flow with writing. Start small and just post https://andy-bell.co.uk/just-post/

    If you wanna get a lot of writing done (which I'm in the depths of lol) then having that momentum from Writing A Lot™️ is super helpful

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  • i wish this app had high mode which is it just scrolling for you at a comfortable reading speed

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  • Sure, I'm teaching a lot of CSS in my, um, CSS course, but lessons like this one is where I hope you're going to get the most value.

    Why am I telling you all of this? I want you to learn from my mistakes. The reason I am teaching the material that I am teaching in this course is because I have experienced a lot of bad, working in this industry and the vast majority of that *bad* was entirely avoidable by taking just one step back, slowing the process down and making *better* decisions with a clearer mind. We’re moving into some coding principles next which I know, that’s what most of you are here for. But, if you take even a *pinch* of value from the core skills material of this course, I promise, technical debt, complexity and stress will reduce, resulting in the quality of the CSS that you author almost certainly sky rocketing. Let’s get into some CSS.

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  • I don't get to use 11ty much for work stuff, but I love how I can spin something quick and dirty up in literal seconds

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  • i am v much enjoying writing words at the moment which is useful, needing to write lots of words

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  • hello how are people doing cable management for their studio display i cannot stand seeing even a millimeter of cable thanks

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  • my brain is like a box of cables. there's some useful stuff in there but it's mostly useless

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  • not many worse feelings that referral traffic coming from “hacker” “news”

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  • i told my partner the course writing is well under way and there was a sadness in her eyes as she knows — now I'm on the third time — that my descent into a husk of a person is imminent

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  • Now bluesky supports Buffer, should I create an @piccalil.li account?

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  • After months of planning and preparation, my upcoming CSS course writing has officially started!

    We're looking at a November release ⏱️

    So, you want to get better at writing CSS, right? How do you go about it? Reading the specs? Doing tutorials? Coding challenges? Building websites? Sure, all of the above are *very good things to do*, but let me throw a curve ball into the mix for you. The path to becoming a truly great CSS developer — in fact, a truly great overall front-end developer is down to more than coding. It comes down to how you approach everything else like communication, giving and receiving feedback, finding a pragmatic solution and planning. I’ve been working with CSS for over 15 years at this point and a lot has changed in its capabilities. What hasn’t changed though is the core skills — often called “soft skills” — that are required to push you to the next level. I’ve spent a large chunk of those 15 years as a consultant, helping organisations — both global corporations and small startups — write better CSS. In **almost every single case** an improvement of the organisation’s core skills were the over

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  • not much in css makes me want to punch my screen but stacking contexts unlock a rage inside me

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  • i thought us brits did a great job of humiliating rishi sunak but the jd vance couch thing is applaudable

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  • we’re lucky that just the way bologna is pronounced in america hasn’t caused a world war

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  • Hi everyone I messed up my social accounts again

    https://andy-bell.co.uk/hi-everyone-i-messed-up-my-social-accounts-again/

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  • safari’s a great browser tho, remember

    An in app browser on iOS, viewing the Apple Maps web beta. There’s an “open in app” banner, prompting me to open the app at the top. The page says that this browser is not supported

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