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		icedchai on Jan 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big ol’ ball o’ JavaScript As a mostly back end dev, I am always in awe of CSS/HTML wizards. I grew up in the "tables and font tags" era of the mid 90's, and CSS has never quite made sense to me...

dsego on Jan 4, 2019 [–]

CSS doesn't make sense to any sane person, kinda like makefiles. But everyone doing it is a little bit insane after being at the deep end for so long, that doing things any differently seems impossible.

icedchai on Jan 4, 2019 | [–]

Sadly, Makefiles make a lot more sense to me than CSS.

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