To me, CSS is probably the most "artistic" kind of work I do, so a good CSS writing session involves being in the right artistic headspace. The work is a lot l

To me, CSS is probably the most "artistic" kind of work I do, so a good CSS writing session involves being in the right artistic headspace. The work is a lot like shaping clay--a little padding here, some flexbox there. I use classes scoped to components and avoid global styles, lessens the blast radius. I also leverage CSS variables in lieu of SASS and friends to keep things vanilla. Once it's done, like playing with clay, I couldn't really describe the process of getting to the final product, it just materializes over the iterations.