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It's posts like this that remind me why I force myself not to do front end. I always end up tweaking the same 10 lines of CSS until they're juuuuust right and n
by jagger27 5y ago
It's posts like this that remind me why I force myself not to do front end. I always end up tweaking the same 10 lines of CSS until they're juuuuust right and never get anything done.
Great article!
- dgb23 5y agoI call it “pushing pixels”. It’s incredibly time consuming, the devil is in the details.
- rambambram 5y agoIf it's "juuust right", I think you got something done. Don't be too harsh on yourself. ;)
- zxcvbn4038 5y agoI abandoned front end development long ago for the same reason - the endless rounds of people undoing each other’s changes and moving things one pixel here, one pixel there, make the blue more blue, make the blue less blue, add more white space, remove more white space, etc. Maddening. I know the couch looks good everywhere if my wife has to move it, too bad we can’t apply that same tactic to front end development.
- herodoturtle 5y agoI hear you - "pixel pushing" as it's called. It helps to think of it as an art. If you have the time to flesh it out, then enjoy the slow process. I find the work is more rewarding that way.
- duxup 5y agoI do front and back end work, I have a conversation like this a lot of folks: Rando Dev: "OMG CSS!" Me: "Bro if you just want to get the job done there's no shame in picking a CSS framework and getting it out the door. It will look nice and you're good to go." Rando Dev: "Yeah but then I wanted to tweak this and then I had to tweak this other thing and ..." Me: "Whose fault is that now?" You really don't need to get into the nitty gritty to do just fine in CSS land. The amount of give and take and work that goes into a good CSS framework is shockingly high / it's great that it is done for you. Be aware of that work if you decide to get into the details....