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The web taught a generation of us by being readable and I'm not sure the thing replacing it has that property, which might matter more than it sounds like it does.
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IE8 is a client, not a browser
Browser support looks like a technical decision and gets argued as one, but it's a commercial decision with a number attached, and the number is usually available if you go and ask for it.
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Six breakpoints and a prayer
Device breakpoints go stale the moment a new phone comes out. We can do better than yet another list of numbers.
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@extend considered harmful
The Sass feature that looks like it saves you bytes will quietly rewrite the order of your selectors, move your rules to a part of the file you didn't write them in, and refuse to work inside a media query.
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float: left is a layout system
We are building every grid on the web out of a property invented to wrap text around a picture, and the pile of workarounds we've grown on top of it has stopped looking like workarounds.
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Everything is a div
Div soup is what you write before you learn what the other hundred elements are for. The argument for fixing it isn't screenreaders or SEO, it's the next person who opens the file.