It's even worse than it appears..
Thursday, December 21, 2023
This is the time of year every day feels like Saturday.#
ChatGPT is my CSS advisor#
  • People who don't program must not have any idea how much of a boon ChatGPT is to us programmers. #
  • I am doing CSS coding far in advance of my previous capability. When I know something is possible, but I haven't the slightest idea how to specify it, I just ask, in my own words. #
  • For example, a very common thing to want to do is to put a : after the text in the first column every row of a table. #
  • So I asked ChatGPT how to do it, in English, as I did above. This is what it came up with:#
    • tr td:first-child::after {content: ":";}#
  • When you see it like that you can almost figure out what's going on if you squint and close one eye. #
  • And it works. I literally shrieked when it did. #
  • Now I am the boss of CSS.. #
  • Nice.#
If FeedLand were from Disney#
  • A beautiful and weird visualization of FeedLand.#

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Last update: Thursday December 21, 2023; 9:08 PM EST.

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