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Over the last 2 years I’ve gone from “CSS is a nightmare of unintuitive incantations” to “CSS is one of my favourite technologies.” I still don’t feel like I understand it as well as I’d like, but I’m so much more comfortable and feel so much less lost using it.

Until about 2012 I really *knew* css, but then flexbox and grid happed, along with other new stuff. Life got busy. And I felt like I didn't know it any more. But I the last few years I feel like I'm back on it, I know flexbox now, and loving that it's caught up with SASS with nested selectors/rules.

Sadly I can’t use native nested CSS yet. I used it in a post and a reader got in touch to say the post looked weird to them. Debugged it and figured out the browser they’re using (Floorp, never heard of it before) was using an older Firefox-based renderer that didn’t support nested CSS 🫠

Should be able to run a PostCSS plugin over it for polyfill, surely? You can’t hold everything back for one obscure browser edge case…

*CSS build. Today I literally ship a vanilla CSS file and I like it that way.

Yeah, that has a certain appeal for sure! Depends if you already have a build step anyway, I suppose. Just seems cleaner to add, then remove that, than rewrite all the CSS down the line…