The real question is who was still buying this type of book in the last decade or two? What value were they getting out of it? Was it being used as reference or training or what?
If you haven‘t been paying attention you will off course miss the good stuff out there.
Rachel Andrew’s (mentioned in TFA) for example has The New CSS Layout (2017) <a href="https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout.html" rel="nofollow">https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout.html an excellent book I still recommend for anybody who want to learn about modern CSS layout.
But if you are this dismissive of the field of course you will fail to see the value of them.
A lot of people also took a lot of pride in not knowing their editors very well, and just the very basics of git. It's no wonder LLMs are so popular.
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Rachel Andrew’s (mentioned in TFA) for example has The New CSS Layout (2017) <a href="https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout.html" rel="nofollow">https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout.html an excellent book I still recommend for anybody who want to learn about modern CSS layout.
But if you are this dismissive of the field of course you will fail to see the value of them.
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I’ve never understood that but for some reason it is a thing
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