Easy: Created with minimal effort Simple: Understood with minimal effort The problem with most software? People optimize for "easy" over "simple," making it harder to maintain in the long run.

Inline styles not being the default is the biggest web flaw.

Noticed something a little strange... 🧐 Bundlephobia reports the bundle size for the CSS Hooks core library as 861 B while bundlejs has it at 779 B. Which one is right? 🤔

Just migrated my site to React Router v7! Configurable routes are a game-changer, and I was finally able to scrap my custom prerendering solution. Huge thanks to the React Router team! 🙌 Please take a look at issue 12495 though. 😉

Just finished migrating the CSS Hooks website over to React Router v7. Really loving the new SSG capabilities!

In my first blog post of 2025, I explore a few reasons why the CSS cascade is generally something to avoid and what you can use instead. Please let me know what you think! nsaunders.dev/posts/cascade-…

quick update regarding CSS Hooks NO, it's not dead. a lot of people are wondering why it doesn't receive daily updates like all the other styling solutions out there... simple - because it "just works". no need to mess with it.

no css no jsx no idea why y'all make it so hard

just found a new pattern for polymorphic components that doesn't compromise on type safety _or_ convenience

TIL Pigment CSS is on ice because extra build steps are too much of a burden. Wishing MUI org the best in their search for a low-friction styling solution with RSC support.

The Remix 💿 team gets it: "Designing for bundlers/compilers/typegen (and any pre-runtime static analysis) leads to poor API design that eventually pollutes the entire system." Can't wait to check out v3!

jsx is great until you hit a .map()

New framework strategy: "We've fixed all of React's problems! But to make sure you feel at home, we're keeping JSX." What nobody realizes is that JSX is an anchor, not a lure.

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