"CSS Algorithms" by Lara Schenck

Strange Loop Conference
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Lara Schenck's Strange Loop 2019 talk on CSS and the algorithms behind it. She looks at CSS as a real language with its own logic, and at how programmers talk about it and the people who work in it.

HN people submitted it as a talk worth watching on CSS, and one commenter cites it, with strong objection, as an example of how CSS dislike gets discussed.

“Seriously, watch the video, it’s outrageous.”
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@tosh2021 · in “CSS Algorithms (2019)”
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@subjectsigma2024 · in “Hardest problem in computer science: centering things”
If you Google “Why is CSS terrible?” you will get dozens of questions on SO or Reddit about noobs complaining about CSS and how it is outrageously hard to understand and use. Nearly every one of those threads has at least one comment that reads like, “Well I’m a senior web developer and if you don’t like CSS it’s probably because you’re a fucking idiot!” Some will go so far as to say if you don’t like CSS and you’re a man, it’s probably because you’re a misogynist: ▶ this video (Seriously, watch the video, it’s outrageous.) Meanwhile, more than one web developer has communicated to me in private that they hate CSS and barely understand it after years of using it professionally to make money.
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