Post AbYZfWQ2EdGu34ARX6 by rml@functional.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #AbYWgOkjvHo4hRZuG8 by rml@functional.cafe
       2023-11-07T07:10:04Z
       
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       I'm a book learner. I feel like I can learn anything that there is at least one incredible book dedicated to, but without literature I can sink my teeth into, I will never succeed in picking up a new skill distinct from those I already possess.TLDR: looking for a genuinely good #CSS book that gets into the meaty bits and doesn't treat the reader like toddler.Around the time of covid, I decided I was going to tear down my react website that I hated ever since it went up, and build it with just HTML & CSS. So I did what any yak shaver would do, and built an ad-hoc CSS preprocessor in #Scheme, without knowing anything about modern CSS. And it worked well enough at first, but in the process I started to learn about all the new features of CSS (I'm not a webdev), and so I figured I should first dive in and then design a DSL that enables "Graphic Design By Wishful Thinkful", originally intending to use #miniKanren for relational styling & generative design patterns. But every CSS book I tried was simply "do this example and another one, and another, accumulate lots of examples without any insight into CSS design strategy", and my AuDHD can't handle that — I need something worth fixating on or I'm doomed. And thus I've gone without a website for years, and accumulated lots of blog entries in my zettlekasten which I still have yet to share.But I also can't let go of the idea of creating a system that would make a JS-free website enjoyable for *me* to maintain, and I've always found writing CSS to be painfully tedious and time consuming, a google oriented configuration process, while I also recognize how powerful it is.And I also have genuine aesthetic/design skills! I've been hired to create installations for Hermes, Adidas, Nike, and countless others, all around the world. My "art" has been shown at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, and countless major venues from Pioneer Works to the Brooklyn Museum (before public funds became illegal to grant to BDS activists, and I subsequently dropped out of an art world that will readily obey and tally the State's red lines we cross and work to keep us in check, excluding not only BDS activists but also Marxist-Leninists, Korean unification activists and other uncompromising dissidents). But I havent found any good book that makes CSS interesting, although I believe that it genuinely is.So what is the best resource for getting deep with modern CSS? Does it even exist?! I feel like it must.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbYYFwnhQTn2O1TfXs by screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-11-07T07:15:28Z
       
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       @rml I vote that it doesn't exist. About a decade ago I looked into it, and I never encountered a book that I didn't regret opening as it went on and it becomes clear the author is just sharing penny-for-your-thoughts ideas about an arbitrary set of things Google and Mozilla copied each other in implementing over time.Dude like, what if the web page was a table.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbYYFxo5gVhHVWfUnI by lispi314@udongein.xyz
       2023-11-07T07:25:56.112945Z
       
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       @screwtape @rml @iska I feel that it is likely the only text that even remotely approaches what you're looking for would be the spec itself.Which is probably a bit drier than the average book, but at least it won't oversimplify things. It quite simply can't without defeating its purpose for existing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbYZfWQ2EdGu34ARX6 by rml@functional.cafe
       2023-11-07T07:49:43Z
       
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       @lispi314 @iska @screwtape Yeah good point, I need to try the spec.