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Unpopular opinion: the word 'just' in CSS advice is doing more harm than good
My coworker Dana pulled up my screen after lunch on Tuesday and said, "dude, every note on this file starts with 'just." She was right, I had 23 comments on one stylesheet like "just add flex here" or "just bump the margin down." The funny part is I wrote most of that at 5pm over three days and half of it was dead wrong when I came back to it. Calling a fix easy in a comment made me skip re-reading the actual element and I stacked a float clear on top of a grid by mistake. Now I write what the bug looks like first and it takes longer but the fix sticks. Anyone else catch themselves writing comments like they're talking to a genie instead of their own future self?
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