A query I’ve been asking myself just lately is “What’s the objective of this weblog”? Once I began writing in 2018 it didn’t happen to me that I’d nonetheless be doing it 5 years later. I picked the title “CSS { In Actual Life }” as a result of I beloved CSS (I nonetheless do!), and that was what I used to be most inquisitive about studying and writing about. However over the course of the years I’ve discovered myself increasing my writing into totally different areas: internet sustainability, JS, dev ops, front-end basically, and work/life extra broadly.
In some way this weblog turned a revered supply of CSS articles, due to some well-known people sharing it on social media and thru newsletters. However it’s at the beginning a private weblog. The concept from the start was to doc my internet growth learnings, and now I’ve discovered that lots of the issues I’m studying that really feel necessary aren’t solely within the realm of internet growth. I wish to write extra personally occasionally, together with non-web subjects: guide critiques, ideas on parenting and work/life steadiness, tech basically, sustainability as a broad subject (past the online). A weblog looks like a pure match, particularly now that Twitter is now not a viable place to share ideas and have discussions. However I fear that guests coming alongside hoping for CSS content material can be disillusioned.
That’s to not say I received’t be writing about CSS anymore. However in my day-to-day work I don’t get to mess around with CSS fairly a lot now (it’s very JS and data-viz heavy), and my priorities in my private life have shifted off-screen. As a consequence I don’t at all times have as a lot to write down on experimental CSS or fascinating use circumstances for options as I as soon as did. There are a large number of great individuals writing in-depth CSS articles: Ahmad Shadeed, Stephanie Eckles, Temani Afif, Manuel Matuzović, Miriam Suzanne, Roma Komarov, the CSS crew at Google (Adam Argyle, Una Kravets and Bramus Van Damme), to call just some, and I take pleasure in studying and studying from their work. I wish to write about greater than CSS, however when the title of this weblog pertains to CSS, is it applicable?
I might begin a separate, private weblog over on my private web site. However I’m undecided I’ve the time to keep up two blogs, and if I saved this one solely for entrance finish content material I really feel like I’d find yourself posting right here rather a lot much less. Perhaps that’s wonderful although?
So I’m asking you, expensive reader: ought to I hold posting right here, even when the content material isn’t particularly CSS, and even entrance finish? Or ought to my private weblog have one other dwelling? I’m not going to go all Elon and abide by your choice it doesn’t matter what. However I’m genuinely to listen to your ideas 🙂
