What CSS taught me
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Reflecting on 20 years of web work, the claim lands: CSS taught risk taking, teaching while learning, and acceptance that pixels disappear. Specifics: first commercial site using CSS for layout (Wired News, 2002), a Fast Company redesign that used floats plus faux columns and hand-drawn corners, adoption of Sass incrementally, side projects like Dribbble and Foy, and a failed Odio pivot that led to Twitter people. Some projects succeed, some die, but tools and hacks (background images, nesting, variables) actually shaped careers.
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