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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

16 pointsby 17h agogithub.blog
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1h agoHN ↗

Sometimes, [GitHub] posts a [blog post in which they move away from] some terrible [way of doing things] I've never heard before, and it's a weird indirect way to learn how awful their other [design choices] must be.

https://xkcd.com/2071/

10m agoHN ↗

Once (like a year ago or so) stumbled upon some person's post asking for someone to help them to "fix" some section at their website. It was done !important over !important over !important over !important. Said person was really convinced all it needed was another bunch of !important because apparently that was what ai spit for them, at least at that time

5m agoHN ↗

And yet, there's been a glaring overflow bug on every repo page if the repo has a sponsor button on Firefox Android for months.