I’m Jens Oliver Meiert, and I’m an engineering lead, guerrilla philosopher, and indie publisher. I specialize in the craft of frontend development, write tech and non-tech books, and love trying things out. Follow my work on meiert.com.
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There’s an art and even a bit of magic around simple frontend code. Writing such code comes with a few preconditions: perhaps a firm understanding of core technologies, a lot of practice, public scrutiny, and then some. Thoughts.
Looking at data for some of the most popular websites, we repeat ourselves too much in CSS; using declarations just once is often one solid avenue to avoid repetition; together, we need to put more focus on style sheet optimization.