Just another grumpy dev blog.
My last post went more viral than I could have expected! I got a lot of emails from people saying how much they appreciated my thoughts on the subject. I hope I made some people feel like they were not falling behind. Ed Zitron (host of Better Offline and writer for Where's Your Ed At ) invited me onto Better Offline to talk more about what AI is and isn't in coding. Pop over there to hear me yap…
A few months ago I went through a bit of a mental slump. I've always been confident of my abilities as an engineer, but I couldn't help but feel like my skills were falling hopelessly behind as I scrolled places like LinkedIn and Twitter. If these sources were to be believed, engineering had moved on from the medieval practice of typing code into an editor. Real engineers were now 10-100x more…
Tailwind is the worst of all worlds. It is a regrettable step backwards that takes everything bad about CSS and modern web development and brings it all together in one library. CSS's Successes and Failures Of all the web technologies that underlie the modern web, the one that has received the fewest fundamental changes is CSS. We've gotten amazing things like flexbox, grid, container queries, and…