#learning

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind . At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy to choose Tailwind. It helped me make a lot of tiny sites! I spent the last week or so migrating a couple of sites away from Tailwind and towards more semantic HTML + vanilla CSS, and it was SO fun and SO interesting, so here are some things I learned! As usual I’m not a full-time frontend developer and so all of my CSS learning has happened in fits and starts over many year

Julia Evans · EN

Learning a few things about running SQLite

Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about operating databases. So here are a couple of small things I’ve been learning about running SQLite. This is the 4th website I’ve used SQLite for, and I

Julia Evans · EN

Inside the quiet reinvention of corporate learning

Psychologist Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” to describe a grief with no clear boundaries, like that experienced by families whose loved ones were missing in action and who could neither grieve nor move on. Since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, I’ve seen a version of it every day in my work with people across companies. Nothing has been taken from us, and yet something has disappeared. Expertise works like territory. Being the person who can do a particular thing marks out our place, and who we are at work depends on holding on to it. So when AI produces the same output we do, it c

Big Think · EN