Things I’ve Learned About CSS
summary
Claims that a UI can live in about 20 kilobytes of minified gzipped CSS and still cover common needs, and that namespacing single-purpose classes for three breakpoints only grows it to ~42 kilobytes. Built a site analysis tool, cssstats.com, to measure real code bases (example: Kickstarter at ~793 kilobytes). Notes a production win where CSS performance changes save hundreds of thousands of dollars in print cost and stresses every millisecond matters.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45Amusement Parks
- 2:35Print Platform
- 4:14Dave Copeland
- 6:26Empathy
- 6:47Frustration
- 7:05Veil of Ignorance
- 8:38Meditation
- 8:51Feedback loops
- 10:40Performance
- 11:51One Job
- 12:10What is Good CSS
- 13:50Im Lazy
- 14:13Internal Catalog
- 14:32Textalign
- 14:48How big is CSS
- 15:25Happy cafes
- 15:44Finite
- 17:35Happy Cat
- 17:45Media Breakpoints
- 18:10React
- 18:50CSS Stats
- 19:23Call to Arms
