Need a history lesson of CSS and web design? Take a long journey with Eevee on the subject…

I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff and put it online where other people could see it was pretty slick, but we did not have very much to work with.

I’ve been taking for granted that most folks doing web stuff still remember those days, or at least the decade that followed, but I think that assumption might be a wee bit out of date. Some time ago I encountered a tweet marvelling at what we had to do without border-radius. I still remember waiting with bated breath for it to be unprefixed!

I recently ported some math code from C++ to Rust in an attempt to do a cool thing with Doom. Here is my story.

Buckle up, because this a #longread. However, it’s worth it because you will be entertained while wading through the mucky-muck of solving what sounds like a simple problem (but isn’t): I have some shapes. I want to find their intersection. Who knows, you might even learn some Rust along the way…

A somewhat #longread on what “elegance” means when it comes to code:

I get a gut feeling when something is elegant, and a different gut feeling altogether when something is hacky; I suspect most programmers experience the same. The strongest pattern I’ve found is this:

Elegance is about expressing exactly what you mean — no more, no less.

Conversely, I could define a hack as something that doesn’t remotely express what you mean, but happens to have a close-enough effect.

Eevee goes on to disect some code examples. Thankfully, most of them are from video games. 😅