CSS, Clearly Explained

The eternal struggle of our people. Just like vampires hiss at sunlight and Superman cowers from kryptonite, programmers recoil in horror at light-themed IDEs. Twenty years in this industry and I've never met a senior dev who willingly uses light mode. Our eyes have evolved to thrive in the darkness of basement offices and midnight debugging sessions. White backgrounds? That's for interns and management who code once a year. The rest of us prefer our screens like our coffee - dark and keeping us alive through questionable life choices.

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That fleeting moment of joy when you find the perfect function in the docs, only to have your soul crushed in four stages of documentation grief. First comes hope, then the deprecation warning (which you ignore because it still works, right?), then the gut punch that it's completely gone, and finally the existential crisis when you realize the new API designers decided your use case wasn't worth supporting anymore. Nothing says "welcome to programming" like building your entire solution around a function that's secretly on death row.

CSS is out here flexing its versatility while simultaneously trolling itself! The comic shows CSS transforming into different styles - from vanilla to Batman-mode dark theme, from kawaii UwU to 3D with drop shadows that would make your GPU weep. The Halloween panel kills me though - CSS literally dressed up as JavaScript! That's the equivalent of your reliable accountant friend showing up at a party pretending to be a chaotic rockstar. And that cubist version? Pure Picasso-level CSS positioning nightmare where nothing aligns as expected. Every frontend dev knows the truth: CSS is both ridiculously simple ("just change the color!") and impossibly complex ("why is this div floating outside the universe?"). It's the language that can make your site look like a masterpiece or like it was designed by a raccoon smashing random keys.

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Content Simon Hiberg SimonHoiberg Why does '!important' override values in css? To me, it reads 'not important, and I would expect it to do the opposite