 We're in the closet today, no homo, and I have a trip I have triple trouble for you today I have three mini boomer ants that I'm gonna give you okay mini boomer ants, and they're all on the same topic CSS actually we could call them minified boomer ants Hilarious joke for my redditor friends so Rant number one here's I'll explain if you're a normie and you don't know what CSS is I'll tell you what CSS is okay, but my first first rant. I'll go ahead and get into it my first rant is When people email me and this is something I will never understand when they email me and ask my permission to use my CSS style sheet my cascading CSS style sheet I do not Understand that now of course if you don't know what CSS is it literally it's basically the color scheme of your website Okay, it's a little file it has your color scheme has you know what floats weird has like rules for how things are shaped And where their borders are stuff like that. That's what CSS is okay now You can go to any website and get their CSS. I cannot understand why anyone Would think you need to ask permission to use CSS I mean it'd be like if you were asked if you if you see someone paint their house in a certain color scheme You as if you go to them and ask their permission for to use their intellectual property It's just so absurd to me. I cannot even imagine it Okay, like even even if you're simping for proprietary software, which I'm not but even if you are You might think that oh, okay. Well, that's a big program. It makes sense to have IP for that But for rules about like color schemes Ridiculous, I can't I can't even understand it. This is actually one thing That annoys me to no end like these people who ask you like you put something out there and they ask for They ask you to like put some kind of license on it Like so they expect that it's like you'll be offended if you use the script that you or the CSS that you uploaded Same thing when I use when I first put up all of my scripts on github, okay? My dot files on github people would absurd that this is just I don't know Maybe culture shock for me because like I'm not in this cuck to mindset of oh, I go to all intellectual property I gotta follow it But so many people would just email me and ask wow I really like this script Can I like use it dude and I'm just like what why do you think I put it on github, buddy? Okay, so here's actually here's my new license, okay? It's called. I don't know what it's called But here's how it works if you ask you can't use it, okay? If you even think you have to ask you can't use it everyone else can use it Okay, but that's the first thing that annoys me that happens in CSS when people ask you to use your colors thing No, no, no, no, and I've never responded to any any of those emails because it's just so ridiculous to me, okay number two a minified CSS cringe Now what is minified CSS? Okay now CSS usually when you make a style sheet In CSS you have formatting so you know you can clearly read everything. It's all oh it looks it looks nice You can go through it your code editor has everything highlighted stuff like that great, okay? Now there's this thing called Minification where what you do is you take your style sheet and then you run it through a script and what the script does is Deletes all the white space deletes all the unnecessary semicolons deletes all the blank blank lines the new lines everything So it's all just one giant jumble that you cannot read if you go on someone's minified CSS You will not be able to read it now in a lot of cases You can get rid of dot men and you'll redirect to the original page or something like that But I cannot stand minified CSS now. I understand the purpose of it. Okay, the purpose Allegedly is oh well, you know, we want to save bandwidth. Okay, so we're gonna get rid of these this white space or something like that Now people don't I don't really see people doing that with HTML, but they do it with CSS Maybe they do do it with HTML. I'm not quite sure, okay But here here is the thing that I find really ironic about this Okay, what I find ironic is 100% of the sites that I have run into that do minified CSS are all Overwhelmingly bloated that is oh wow we saved a couple maybe even a whole KB on my my minified CSS Oh well now I got a load two megabytes of ads a megabyte of trackers. We have diffs zooming all over the screen We have JavaScript running and like you're eating up your CPU like everything about the site is incredibly bloated and you You know minifying your CSS. It's just like putting Lipstick on a pig. Okay, that's what it is. Alright, what a waste of time. Oh Absolute waste of time people shouldn't be doing it. It's just a hassle. You know if I want to go into your style sheet Maybe I want to get something from it Maybe I want to change my own when if I'm using stylus or some add-on where I can modify CSS I want to be able to clearly see what's going on in your CSS Okay, I can wait the extra Microsecond for the full version of your CSS as if I can't even imagine it taking up that much space and again It's just I've it's the sites that use minified CSS are exactly the ones where it's not gonna do any good Okay, probably doesn't do much good anyway, but whatever. I'm not against the idea of it Just the fact I just find it ironic the sites that use minified CSS. Okay number three third minified boomerant also about CSS Sites about CSS Okay, so if you are let's say you're Do working on your website and you forget how to do something in CSS Oh, I want to oh, I want to have these divs next to each other unless there's not enough room Then I want them, you know in a row or something like that. Okay. I got to figure out how to do that Now you can't type in man CSS and you know get get an offline manual There's probably something for that someone in the comments is gonna say oh, you can just use this dude But normally what people do with pretty much everything else is they search How do I do this in CSS in your search engine? Okay, and you'll run across one of several sites You will run across a site called Excuse me, what is it CSS tricks tips something like that you'll run across something that's like w3 School, I forget exactly what they are who cares. I Find it and I another thing I find very ironic all of these sites dedicated to CSS web development. What do they all have in common? They're the worst sites Developed on the internet. They are by far the slowest to load the most difficult to use I mean CSS trips or tip tips whatever it is you go on the site the layout is very simple It just has a sidebar has a front bar or something. Why is it the slowest site on the internet? Okay? Here's what I'm thinking here's what in this actually I think happens a lot, okay What happens with people who use who know how to do all this cool stuff in CSS? They think that because they can they should okay, so they write all this junk like people out there There are people out there who have megabytes of CSS. Okay, maybe that's why they minify it, okay? I can't imagine I can't imagine having that much CSS Especially I mean if you if you have CSS that big just like use different sheets for different parts of your website Okay, clearly not all of that is being used on one page, right? I'm just like so I just find it very ironic that the literally worst design sites on the internet are exactly those on web design And that actually is a recurring theme. I just want people to to to notice this These these odys people called web devs. All right, you know, I remember Nassim Taleb. Okay, he talks about how modern architects That the problem with them is they build stuff to please other modern architects It's just like this incestuous community where they're constantly like That basically just like stroking their own egos, okay, and everyone else is like wow this stuff looks disgusting Why modern architecture is terrible exactly the same stuff with modern web development because these people do things because they Can because they think they're fun. Oh look at the nerdy things I'm doing and you get these massive websites They can't even like please if your website functions better if it's just plain text It should be a plain text website. Frankly. Okay, that's that's how it should be. Okay, and actually right now It isn't live yet, but I've actually been rewriting my own website because I think it's too big Okay, in fact, I'm getting rid of a common CSS style sheet Cascading CS sorry CSS style it stands for cascading style sheet So if you say CSS style sheet, which I everyone always always says technically it's redundant Who cares some redditors in the comment will comment section will say something about it, but who cares about them What was I saying? So I've been thinking about rewriting. Well, I've not been thinking about it. I've been doing it It's not live yet, but I've been rewriting my entire website without a style sheet whatsoever Okay, normally you have a style sheet in common with all your pages. Here's what I'm doing I'm right. I'm rewriting everything and bear HTML and then a little style tag where I have maybe one or two rules Okay, because frankly my view is the inner you know the internet It should be viewed in plain text and you should not style it that much and keep it simple Like when I look at the sites that I've actually gotten a lot from where there's good content where you read good content They all have simple layouts like I'm sorry this having diffs zoom across the your field of view is not gonna make your life Any better, okay? It's people are gonna get distracted. Maybe they'll click on other stuff But like if you want quality viewers, I want quality viewer to viewers. That's what I want You know, sometimes I think I have too many subscribers on YouTube Maybe I should minify my subscribers to get it get a smaller chunk of the high quality people But when you're looking for quality viewers text Just readable text is the ultimate way to get through to them You can have a little bit of styling, but if you're going over if you're having you know Megabytes if you have to minify your style sheet, you're probably doing something wrong And that's why I've been switching over just just as a ridiculous Crazy thing that I do I've been making a website without a style sheet where And guess the great thing about that is I don't I'm not tempted to do fancy stuff and fancy drop-down menus that I don't need Instead basically every page Maybe I'll change the background Maybe I'll add a little buffering on the bottom so you can scroll down a little bit Maybe I'll maybe I'll make the footer a little bigger if I want to put links in it, but aside from that That's really all you need like and the focus is on the content of the website And that's something you don't really see that much anymore, frankly So those are my minified boomerance on CSS. 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