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St. Patrick

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, y’all. Like St. Nicholas, I absolutely revel in the stories of St. Patrick.

St. Patrick

St. Patrick was tremendously effective and saw many pagans turn to put their faith in Christ. Despite how his extant writings testify to how much he missed his homeland, he chose to live and serve among the Irish he grew to love. He even suffered imprisonment and persecution at the hands of the Druids. But his dedicated and tireless evangelistic efforts, according to tradition, resulted in his baptizing 120,000 new believers and building over 300 churches in Ireland. He served and worked among the people for 30 years before he died on March 17, 461, and was buried in Ireland.

Answers in Genesis

Love the story of St. Patrick, a man after God’s heart, sharing the Gospel to the natives of a dark land. Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Stay safe.

It Has Gotten Worse

Wrote this five years ago. Then it was Bootstrap and a bunch of JavaScript ninjas that didn’t know HTML/CSS. Now it’s Tailwind and a bunch of React ninjas that see HTML as an implementation detail and CSS as fundamentally broken.

Between the various CSS-in-JS solutions and the use of massive UI frameworks— looking at you MUI— we have taken frontends that could be lightweight, fast-loading, and enjoyable and made them into monstrosities of slowness.

I was looking at a website for a development agency in Atlanta last night and my 8 year old laptop got so hot the fans had to spin up. The website wasn’t even doing much beyond showing some content with some simple animations. I could understand not being able to run the latest games on my laptop but content-centered websites shouldn’t be doing this.

Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?

When every new website on the internet has perfect, semantic, accessible HTML and exceptionally executed, accessible CSS that works on every device and browser, then you can tell me that these languages are not valuable on their own. Until then we need to stop devaluing CSS and HTML.

Mandy Michael

Preach! It’s all I see these days in job descriptions. JAVASCRIPT! Ninja preferred. Rockstar acceptable. And then they produce crap frontend code. Their HTML and CSS is restricted to Bootstrap at best, custom crap with style attributes all over the place at worst. When I was their age, the emphasis of frontend was on the other side of the triangle: HTML and CSS. Without these, your JavaScript means nothing. Even if you are embedding your CSS and HTML in your JavaScript. Shudder.

Cash

I was looking back over some of my older posts— I imported 8 years of history into Astro—, found, and rewatched this. Some great covers and history about Johnny Cash, who is one of my favorite artists.