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5y

Okay so even at my advance 52 years of age, I still pull all nighters to handle emergency remediation projects, and clean up other peoples messes. I don't mind, I'm a geek, I get high on the challenge of fixing shit that is broken all to hell.

But tonight was different. Tonight has me raging.

I am tasked with renovating a website, and building a sister site to that main site as well. no bother, I haven't done any web dev in 15 years but I'll power through pulling 18 to 20 hours a day for a couple of weeks to get in the groove...

Little did I know... CSS is a pain in the ass to be sure, but FLEXBOX is total and complete bullshit.

I don't give to shits about all the fancy shit it can do, it can't do simple shit worth a damn. Fuck Flexbox, and anyone involved in producing that useless layout model.

The sheer number of idiots promoting that hunk of shit a solution that is to be applied to any task other than wiping my ass is astounding.

Fuck all you jerk offs out there posting your shitty mark up turds as if they are gold, when you know better than anyone it works, sometimes, then doesn't, and is so easy to break it may as well be called "Web Design Jenga".

I'm still tired as hell, and tomorrow I will go back to slogging through CSS as the layout method, but at least I feel a little better now.

Oh and before I forget FUCK YOU FLEXBOX you piece of shit.

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flex 1 0 auto my ass
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  • 5
    5y
    Not gonna lie, you had my at

    "flexbox is a total and complete bulshit."

    Have my ++!!!

    You're still going at 50? Kudos, glad to know I just might keep going for another 20 years.
  • 3
    5y
    Web Design Jenga 🤣🤣
  • 2
    5y
    Ain't gonna lie, flexbox is crap and I'm a front-end dev... Grid layout for the win!
  • 8
    5y
    If you didn't do web for 15 years you just skipped all the crap before flexbox so you cannot understand why people think flexbox is such a saviour. Grid is the next step in evolution though
  • 2
    5y
    I deal with flexbox almost daily, what's your grievance about it? 🤔
  • 3
    5y
    IMHO flexbox is the very best thing that has happened to CSS ever since float-based layouts.
  • 2
    5y
    Flexbox might be bad, but not using it might be a thousand times worse, literally the greatest pain in the ass of all the pains in the ass ever existed, because after all, it's always CSS (so glad I switched to back end).

    You might try to have a look at CSS Grid, it is newer so still not well supported by older browsers like Flexbox but if that's not a concern it might be worth trying
  • 2
    5y
    Play flexbox froggy
  • 1
    5y
    @noneshallpass Or Flexbox defense, or Flexbox Flow
  • 1
    5y
    In UK accent `Foking flexbox`
  • 3
    5y
    - Why do I call myself a backend developer?
    - CSS

    When asked by a recruiter I have a nicely prepared lie about career focus or whatever, but deep inside I have to admit that CSS is the real reason I don’t want to touch the web.
  • 1
    5y
    I remember fighting floats and clears. It was unpleasant.

    Now, pixel positioning in WinForms. Happy times. Drop it on, move it into position and there it stays---forever.

    To paraphrase Churchill---Flex box is the worst, apart from the alternatives.
  • 3
    5y
    LOL what? Try doing one tenth the shit that flexbox lets you do, without flexbox. It'll make you wanna kill yourself getting it right cross-browser and at different resolutions. The other 9/10 will simply not be possible. Flexbox is the only reason I even agree to occasionally help with the CSS these days.
  • 0
    5y
    Seems to that the issue here isn't flex box, but more an issue with the person trying to use it. Sure, its not perfect and it does take some fiddling around to get things right. That being said, I haven't seen anything that is a significant improvement over flex.

    CSS Grid is great, but the browser support still isn't all that amazing. If you're developing for maximum compatibility it is an absolute goddamn nightmare.

    I do think once IE 11 is dead and buried, and Edge is running on Chromium grid will be a more viable option. Until then, flex box all the things.
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