That dude who told me my CSS grid was 'too academic'

I was at a meetup in Denver about 8 months ago showing off this complex card layout I built with CSS grid. Some younger guy just walked up and said 'You know this could be like 40 lines shorter if you stopped over-engineering it.' I argued with him for 20 minutes about semantic correctness and clean code. Finally he threw his laptop on the table and rewrote the whole thing with flexbox and gap in under 60 seconds. Hated admitting he was right but that conversation completely changed how I approach layouts. Has anyone else had a random stranger at a meetup completely bust your coding ego?

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zara_allen6d ago

Man that story hits home. Had something similar happen at a meetup in Portland a couple years back and it still stings when I think about it.

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jade6186d ago

Bet that was the same organizer pretending to be different people.