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CUBE CSS

A CSS methodology oriented towards simplicity and consistency with a heavy dosage of pragmatism. If there’s one thing you can guarantee in tech, it’s that someone, somewhere, will declare that CSS isn’t up to the job of “big projects” and what will undoubtedly be recommended by those same people will be either a JavaScript-heavy approach […]

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26th May 2020 at 11:24

I’m re-working a section of my talk “Keeping It Simple With CSS That Scales” today. C-BEUT is gone and instead replaced with CUBE CSS – Composition Utility Block Exception. I see composition as a really important aspect of keeping things simple. Micro-optimisation in my experience, has usually resulted in fragile re-inventions of core language capabilities […]

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24th May 2020 at 16:52

One thing I’m getting sick of hearing is "the government did a good job with the hand they were dealt". They didn’t. They fucked up. Every other government around the globe got dealt a similar hand, yet we’re only just behind America in deaths.

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27th April 2020 at 08:33

‪If you write to get lots of views, your posts will probably never be great.‬ ‪If you write really good content, though, you’ll achieve the former by proxy. ‬ ‪It’s all about patience. So many of my old articles did nothing, but I’m a completely different and much better writer now for persisting.‬ ‪I can […]

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