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Eristic Architecture for AI

kyleyeats — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:27:19 +0000

Article URL: https://rexriepe.com/ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44380418

Points: 1

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New comment by kyleyeats in "2024 YR4"

kyleyeats — Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:53 +0000

The story of this asteroid having a ~3% chance to hit Earth was huge, but I never heard about it being ruled out shortly afterward. It still has a 4% to hit the Moon.

2024 YR4

kyleyeats — Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:53 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_YR4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910901

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:01:05 +0000

Atomic CSS is great. It does abuse class="" in the same way style="" was abused. It's counter-intuitive but the obvious code smells produced here are better than the non-obvious code smells created by other style architecture approaches.

I've always now-and-then packaged up and open-sourced the pattern I use for CSS. The projects have gotten smaller and smaller. This reflects well on CSS as a technology.

I think class="" has more to offer in an information density sense. There's more potential there than style="" had. Instantly lumping them together was my first response too, but I was wrong. The in-the-HTML shorthand of frameworks like Bootstrap/Tailwind/CASS is insanely useful in a way that inline styles never were.

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:29:16 +0000

It's easy to mock people who've had a failed project. I wish you success with yours.

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:12:25 +0000

Yep, it's weird and controversial. That's why I wrote a book explaining it and used a pseudonym.

Now: ~60% of devs know some CSS, rest feel guilty

YSAC's pitch: ~10% of devs know lots of CSS, rest avoid it without guilt (they suck and that's okay)

I guess 0% would mean a dead CSS, so it's closer to dead, sure.

If you get a more powerful saw, you can either cut down more trees or you can spend less time cutting down trees. CSS is a more powerful saw now. I'm suggesting spending less time cutting down trees instead of cutting down more trees.

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 01:55:50 +0000

Basically the same idea, yep. CASS doesn't use abbreviations or numerals though.

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:52:21 +0000

The argument I make in the book is that the last 5% of CSS/design should be written by people who can write CSS. Nobody else should even be writing CSS because it turns into a huge mess when everyone jumps in.

I mothballed this project because people were so incredibly cruel about it (a CSS project!). Remember that people who work on this stuff are people, and we're just trying to make things better. Also, you can pry .vertical-center from my cold, dead hands.

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:35:52 +0000

Thanks! Lists were the bane of my existence with this project. I could never make all the browsers happy.

This is a #wontfix (sorry), but I might fork it into a new, LLM-oriented CSS project. Fonts and lists will be the first things I look at.

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:52:49 +0000

It's true. Between atomic CSS libraries and LLMs, there's almost no reason to write CSS nowadays.

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS (and that's okay)[2022]"

kyleyeats — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:34:12 +0000

The predecessor to this project was a Bootstrap 3 theme: https://rriepe.github.io/1pxdeep/

The book has a lot of content over what to make pretty and what not to make pretty. I think knowing what not to bother with is an underrated skill. A lot of what inspired me to write it was backenders handing off markup that they tried to make semi-passable. Unstyled HTML, please!

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:28:55 +0000

I agree. CASS (the library this book was promoting) is actually really great paired with LLMs. If I revisit this project, it'll be along the lines of using it with LLMs.

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:25:32 +0000

The perfection should be downstream of the project's coded standards, not downstream of the faithful implementation of the designer's work. Some designers are really good about maintaining standards-- but the book would argue all that effort should be spent elsewhere.

It's basically "the arbitrary padding the designer liked in the moment" vs. "the standard padding that's everywhere in the project." This book argues you should always use the standard padding. Your product should be pixel-perfect, just not in the PSD-to-HTML sense.

New comment by kyleyeats in "You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)"

kyleyeats — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:18:05 +0000

Edited the year into the title. CASS (the CSS library) and YSAC (this book) have been a huge marketing mess, to be honest. And yeah the substack was part of it-- I think the book came first though. Kyle Yeats (rhymes with stylesheets) was going to be a Youtube persona but I could never really get the feel of it right.

The book morphed into being more about project management. I think there's a lot of value in it still, in that respect, so I'm putting it all online for free.

You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)

kyleyeats — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:03:20 +0000

Article URL: https://rexriepe.com/yousuckatcss/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43327155

Points: 41

# Comments: 65

New comment by kyleyeats in "Boring tech is mature, not old"

kyleyeats — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:25:05 +0000

Old is actually good now because of LLMs. You want something old.

New comment by kyleyeats in "Tailwind CSS v4.0"

kyleyeats — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:41:04 +0000

As someone who made a competing product along these lines (that got no attention or traction): Tailwind gives CSS a "place" in the codebase. It benefits orgs, not necessarily apps. I didn't get it at first either. But it's very useful to the people to whom it's useful.

New comment by kyleyeats in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

kyleyeats — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:38:07 +0000

The seven offenses in question: distributing narcotics, distributing narcotics by means of the Internet, conspiring to distribute narcotics, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit computer hacking, conspiring to traffic in false identity documents, and conspiring to commit money laundering

New comment by kyleyeats in "Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens"

kyleyeats — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:33:44 +0000

They're buried in these offers right now.

New comment by kyleyeats in "[dead]"

kyleyeats — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:22:11 +0000

Bat Boy is making the announcement.