#64

31 January 2025

Is CSS nesting an exciting new feature or a potential disaster waiting to happen? I note down my worries and prior experience with one of it predecessors: Sass nesting, along with some gotchas native CSS brings with it.

A real eye-opener to the complexity of a front-end system in a high security environment.

⚠️ Video warning. This is really well done and actually quite funny.

“The snake eats its own tail. And we scramble a whole generation’s understanding of history, tearing at our already threadbare epistemological fabric.”

These tips are pure gold. I had long put CSS-based validation responses in the bin, but this + :has() might be a power couple 👀

P.S. this is a good demo.

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Andy