Sometimes in software design we get this idea, “We’ll make this a rule engine. Then the business can write the rules, and they’ll be able to change them without changing the code. That’ll make it more flexible.” 🤣 The rules are code; they change the behavior of the system. Rules interact in ways that are …
All I want is a web page. I want this one thing on the left and this other thing on the right — why is this so hard?? Can I just make a table in HTML like I used to do in the nineties? Why do I have to worry about stylesheets? and, why are …
I’ve been frustrated every time I try to grasp CSS for years. “I just want this on the left and this to be over here!” etc. Now I realize that CSS doesn’t work that way for very good reasons. In most programming, we give instructions for what we want to happen. But in CSS, it’s …