The challenges of maintaining CSS over years and years of developer turnover

theguardian.com/info/2019/apr/04… by @asanders

I’ve been thinking a lot about coupling styles with components and only sending the CSS needed for a given page. When the template needs to be deleted the CSS can safely be discarded as well.

@morganknutson I nominate @mattcampux who said this today

twitter.com/mattcampux/status/11…

@mattcampux Awesome for

1) asking about the weather
2) setting alarms/timers
3) playing music
4) entertaining kids

I think we have 5 in our house

@morganknutson Sweet

Zadie had really been into The Lion Sleeps Tonight by The Tokens lately.

@ambrwlsn90 A List Apart’s YouTube channel youtube.com/channel/UC45yZ-KWbxP…

@MikeNGarrett ** Turns phone upside down **
** Runs Speed Test **

Technically yes but it’s very small difference. The biggest effect would be pointing your phone away from your radio source antenna

@mr_suh

[closes book, slowly removes glasses, and thoughtfully cleans them with a small cloth] I honestly don’t think Waldo is in there

Who wore it better?

They arrested Santa Claus

@redcrew Mine are always websites

@kentcdodds I only managed to choreograph a rousing air hockey game with myself m.youtube.com/watch?v=zih7uRaRWg…

I mean look at what we can do on the web today:
– run a spreadsheet application
– watch TV
– aggregate thousands of 280 character messages from around the world in real time

These are highly complicated things that we have dreamed up for the web to do

You can still write some markup and serve it up from a webserver just like @timberners_lee did 30 years ago. What has changed is our expectations of the modern web and that has required more and more technical complications to push the web forward.

“I firmly believe that, as Tim Berners-Lee put it, “this is for everyone.” And I don’t just mean it’s for everyone to use—I believe it’s for everyone to make as well.”

The web has always had a high technical barrier to entry but it is also resilient and backwards compatible

“The people who make the web vs. the people who are excluded from making the web.”

adactio.com/journal/15050

@sf_tristanb Speaking of personal preferences I wrote my own barebones plugin for making Twig work with WordPress github.com/kingkool68/sprig

It works just the way I like it.

@sf_tristanb I do like using Twig. Took me a little bit for it to click as I kept seeing examples of it being used with a lot of effort making PHP things available in Twig. I use it to purely render HTML with the data that is passed to it.