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by yosito 10d ago
My approach is more "ship fast, iterate later". Your criticism of AI slop is valid and I share it. I've manually re-written the post today, no more AI slop. Of course, that came with the opportunity cost of not spending time
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by yosito 10d ago
You're partially correct, in the sense that agentic software development means that exact tech stack choices no longer restrict what's possible or easy to quickly achieve. But having well designed technologies and design systems i
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by yosito 10d ago
Thanks for your kind words. Luckily, I thrive on criticism of my work, and don't take negativity personally. Working with the team at Mozilla on this truly felt really great!
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by yosito 10d ago
Your frustrations with the state of CSS 2.0 at the time were quite common, and part of what CSS Zen Garden aimed to inspire people to transcend. Now, CSS has evolved to the point where none of these hacks are necessary. You can now write pu
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by yosito 10d ago
I've unslopped it now. Thanks for the feedback.
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by yosito 10d ago
I used AI to get the post out quickly, but I've gone through and manually re-written it today.
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by yosito 10d ago
I appreciate the feedback. I did use AI to help me put this post together quickly. I've gone through today and manually re-written it. No more AI slop.
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by yosito 10d ago
Absolutely. When I first started building websites in the early 2000s, I was building site networks, where individuals would want their own themable websites quickly spun up. They all used the same backend system and components, each with u
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by yosito 10d ago
Contributions are welcome :) https://github.com/mozmeao/springfield
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by yosito 10d ago
Yes, not only this, but in my experience, several older browsers actually crash or freeze with too many @import statements in the CSS. While those browsers weren't necessarily a priority to support with modern styles, they styles they
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by yosito 10d ago
> The CSS Zen Garden worked because everyone was using a single markup file. CSS Zen Garden was a proof of concept built around a single markup file. But if you extend that concept to hundreds of dynamic pages and a well built CSS design
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by yosito 10d ago
Personally, I love the current Firefox.com design and see the simplicity as a feature. And it's designed to be responsive to any screen size. A design like this would have been incredibly challenging to build with CSS 2.0 in 2008. That
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by yosito 10d ago
This is a reasonable reaction. Thank you for pointing that out. I've updated the post with some thoughts on this. Basically, think the radically different styles part of the CSS Zen Garden was only how the dream was shown, but it was
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by yosito 10d ago
I agree completely. Personally, Tailwind never really resonated with me, though I've used it several times, and we did even briefly consider it for this project. I always felt that it was an approach created by people who never underst
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by yosito 10d ago
I appreciate the feedback. I did use AI to help me put this post together quickly. I've gone through today and manually re-written it. No more AI slop.
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by yosito 10d ago
Correct, it's not part of Protocol. It's in this repo: https://github.com/mozmeao/springfield
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by yosito 10d ago
Mostly, I have other, more important stuff going in my life. I did write a lot of this post myself, but used AI to flesh out some of the details because otherwise between my perfectionism and tendency to overthink blog posts, I would have n
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by yosito 10d ago
Yes, you'll find it in this repo: https://github.com/mozmeao/springfield Search for "flare" if you're looking for the CSS.
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by yosito 11d ago
Yes! Thank you. I linked to the site from my post as well. This is a great resource for anyone currently learning CSS.
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The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped(josprague.com)
131 points by yosito 11d ago|70 comments
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by yosito 11d ago
Author here. Like a lot of people on HN, Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden is how I learned CSS in the first place. Building stylesheets for that one HTML file taught me to think about CSS as a system, and it stuck. Nearly two decades later I
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by yosito 6mo ago
In my extensive travel experience, more than half the time the boarding time listed at the gate isn't even correct.
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by yosito 7mo ago
"Anthropic had built its brand around promoting AI safety, emphasizing red lines it said it wouldn’t cross. Its usage guidelines contain strict limitations that prohibit Claude from facilitating violence, developing or designing weapon
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by yosito 7mo ago
You're right. And it's also important to be mindful that the LLMs can also translate between human intent and formal queries incorrectly, so they still shouldn't be fully trusted even when integrated with a more deterministic
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by yosito 8mo ago
Yeah, really dumb move on the part of Chase bank. They'd previously marketed their accounts as being geared towards international travelers, but now their cards can't be used in much of the world.
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by yosito 8mo ago
US "freedom" is more propaganda than reality, and that's becoming more and more apparent.
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by yosito 8mo ago
I'm very skeptical of using AI in this way. I've given Claude access to calendars and travel plans and asked it to do similar analytical tasks cross referencing documents that would take days for me to do manually. Since it was ab
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by yosito 9mo ago
TLDR: You can invite people to do stuff.
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by yosito 9mo ago
It would be really interesting if we find out that a simple 10 minute daily massage of the lymph nodes in the neck significantly prevents Alzheimer's.
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by yosito 10mo ago
This has been my experience with almost everything I've tried to create with generative AI, from apps and websites, to photos and videos, to text and even simple sentences. At first glance, it looks impressive, but as soon as you look

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