Post #2503728

2026-05-13 18:30 UTC

right now I&#39;m doing what I thought would be a very tedious task (moving a bunch of CSS from Tailwind to using vanilla CSS) and actually it&#39;s helping me learn me some things about structuring CSS that I&#39;ve wanted to learn for a long time. it&#39;s a lot of fun even though it does take time

Replies (8)

@mensrea@freeradical.zone 2026-05-13 18:42

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca ah yes. the zen of refactoring

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@ednl@mastodon.social 2026-05-13 18:43

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca Figuring out how to best organise the classes hierarchy, for instance? Yeah, I always found that fun work. Just like designing the perfect database scheme.

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@Jayenkai@mastodon.social 2026-05-13 19:07

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca It seems much more manageable, nowadays. Either that or I just didn't have a clue what I was doing with it, the last time I tried. ... .... .. probably the latter, if I'm honest!

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@dago@river.group.lt 2026-05-13 19:52

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca is that just for fun, or is there philosophical reason why no Tailwind? :D I kinda like it, because naming elements is paaaaaaaaaaain, even with BEM :D

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@mwop@phpc.social 2026-05-13 20:21

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I did that a couple years ago, and learned sooooo much! And brought my stylesheet and page sizes down a TON in the process as well.

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@ballyn@infosec.exchange 2026-05-13 20:58

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca sounds like purgatory tbh

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@evana@hachyderm.io 2026-05-13 21:51

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I'd love to read a summary of your lessons. I'm also a "prefer fewer tools" type, and I'd like to understand what the problems are as you scale up.

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@pierstoval@mastodon.social 2026-05-14 06:48

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca with component-based frontend tools, it's now easy to scope css for a single component with basic CSS classes, and just analyse potential double usage of certain rules in order to create one additional common CSS stylesheet. Been doing that for a while without tailwind and it's perfect (and I'm more of a Bootstrap old timer 🤣)

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