I Just Wanna Write CSS

A whirlwind tour through the history of CSS, where it's landed today, and the myriad of goodies we can expect in the very near future. And do we still need pre/post-processors in this day and age, or can we just, like, y'know, write vanilla CSS?! Also, shockingly, Roy Kent makes an appearance on the show with an epic rant about Tailwind CSS. You're not gonna want to miss this!

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush

Show Notes:

• Zach Leatherman: Pay HTML/CSS devs what they deserve
• A Brief History of CSS until 2016
• Sass - Wikipedia
  • Sass and Native Nesting
• CSS Specificity Wars Over? All Hail Cascade Layers (video)
• The CSS Podcast with Una Kravets and Adam Argyle
• Container Style Queries
• CSS HD Gradients
• Classless CSS
• The Three Laws of Utility Classes

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:43 We have a website now! Yada yada yada
• 2:15 CSS class is now in session 🎓
• 9:58 Then there was Sass…
• 17:47 An "aha!" moment for native CSS variables
• 19:55 The PostCSS era
• 23:40 But, like, can't we just write CSS man? 😂
• 25:24 New stuff: Cascade Layers
• 26:14 :has (the "parent" selector)
• 28:33 Container queries
• 30:10 New color spaces, OKLCH
• 33:10 Classless CSS? Atomic CSS? What's going on?
• 35:25 Suddenly, Roy Kent appears with thoughts on Tailwind!
• 43:31 Always bet on open web standards
• 47:32 Well, that came out weird… ;-P
• 48:07 Outro