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to be fair there is a whole spectrum between "chasing every new shiny that gets a blog post" vs. "I haven't changed my stack since 1998." there are certainly w
by bobthepanda 2y ago
to be fair there is a whole spectrum between "chasing every new shiny that gets a blog post" vs. "I haven't changed my stack since 1998."
there are certainly ways to get burned by adopting shiny new paradigms too quickly; one big example in web is the masonry layout that Pinterest made popular, which in practice is extremely complicated to the point where no browser has a full implementation of the CSS standard.
- mb2100 2y agoCSS Masonry is not even standardized yet. There is a draft spec: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_layout/Masonry_layout https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_la... and ongoing discussion whether it should be part of CSS grid or a new `display` property.