Why is this the top post of the front page? Is there a front-end dev that didn't see this when they were 15? Sure it's a nice demonstration of CSS but...
This gets posted every few months and the HN crowd loves it. Somehow all the technical geniuses here are still mesmerized by CSS from 20 years ago. Learning all the nuances of the Rust borrow checker doesn't leave any room for much else, except for HTML tables, that stuff got embedded too deep. Set a reminder, it's an easy way to reap the sweet karma.
Well said. I just wish the Zen Garden would put a big banner at the top that says "the cascade turned out to be a terrible idea, now all CSS is JS, and it's scoped to the component using exclusively single-class-selectors with non-deterministic names."
I see quaint selectors like `#main aside .wrapper .design-selection` and just hope jr devs aren't trying to emulate them.
> I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know things. Because for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time. Fraction who have heard of it at birth = 0% Fraction who have heard of it by 30 ~= 100% US birth rate ~= 4,000,000 year Number hearing about it for the first time ~= 10,000 day If I make fun of people, I train them not to tell me when they have those moments. And I miss out on the fun. Person #1, about to have a messy fun time: "Diet coke and mentos thing"? What's that? Person #2, in a delightfully pro-knowledge mood: Oh man! come on, we're going to the grocery store. Person #1: Why? Person #2: You're one of today's lucky 10,000. {{Title text: Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.}}
