Josh Comeau writes excellently on the mental model shift that enables you to understand CSS better: A few years ago, I had a Eureka! moment with CSS. Up until that moment, I had been learning CSS by focusing on the properties and values we write, things like z-index: 10 or justify-content: center. I figured that if I understood broadly what each property did, I’d have a deep understanding of the language as a whole. ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year’s! Here’s to another year of coding, gaming, and pursuing all that is Good, Beautiful, and True. I’m not one for new year resolutions, but since it’s something that got brought to my attention, I figure I share my own mid-term goals that I’ve been striving for and hope to strive for in the future (and this to give me a sense of accountability): Read through the rest of the Apocrypha and 1 Enoch Finish my Algo/Data Structures course Plow through Advent of Code 2023 (I initially started it with Zig but utterly procrastinated. Will “cheat” by knocking it out in JS!) Finish the initial version of my minimalist pure CSS framework “for backend devs” Continue to do at least 3 blog entries per week Learn Go Make more headway in Godot The more ambiguous the goal, the further back it is in the priority queue. ...

(Emphases mine) In holy things may be unholy greed. Thou giv’st a glimpse of many a lovely thing Not to be stored for use in any mind, But only for the present spiritual need. The holiest bread, if hoarded, soon will breed The mammon-moth, the having pride…. – George MacDonald, pg. 158 Had he had more of the wisdom of the serpent…he would perhaps have known that to try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse; that the only way to make them good is to be good–remembering well the beam and the mote; that the time for speaking comes rarely, the time for being never departs. ...

When you’re a newcomer to a group or a hobby, perhaps one of the first things you start to think of is, “What are the rules? What’s the stuff that I need to avoid saying or doing?” These aren’t bad questions in themeselves as it shows a sense of wanting to be part of the in-group and conforming to the rules and standards set by the group; you want to be an asset to the team, not a liability. ...

For the few of you wondering, yep, even though I’ve revamped the site, the Alpha Game Plan Blog by one Vox Day as a PDF can still be downloaded/viewed here!