CSS

topic on 13 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 13 times in 9 episodes since 2022

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Bryant Chou: Webflow was the first no-code application
“We created this visual interface over HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and it was sort of, you know, the first no-code application that was out there.”
Bryant Chou Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 22:32 The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
Slowe: CSS remains one of the worst toolkits imaginable
“You know, first discoveries of some of the new kids, the new things that come along with CSS, which, you know, to this day remains one of the worst toolkits imaginable.”
Chris Slowe Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 9:23 Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
Mikic: Webflow requires an understanding of CSS and front-end fundamentals
“You're actually going to need to know what every single CSS property is going to actually do before actually pulling the trigger. So it's going to require you to actually understand a little bit of how the front end works in the end.”
Uros Mikic Jun 30, 2022 ▶ 19:19 Webflow Calls Itself No-Code But Here Is What They Leave Out
Osborn: Pen-and-paper sketching iterates layouts faster than starting in CSS
“When you can work with just pen and paper and just sketch things out, you can play with more layouts faster than if you are going into CSS and trying to switch out where the columns were, where things are going to be. You're going to be a lot more constrained …”
Tracy Osborn Apr 13, 2021 ▶ 21:51 Episode 545 | The Value of Learning 80/20 Design Fundamentals
MAD Assertion Partly supported
Thomas Reardon co-founded W3C with Tim Berners-Lee and helped develop CSS
“I helped found the W-three-C with Tim Berners-Lee and kind of set up those initial web standards I, you know, I'm very proud of my work on CSS, if people know what that is.”
Thomas Reardon Sep 17, 2019 ▶ 19:00 Fireside Chat: Thomas Reardon, Founder & CEO, CTRL-Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mernit: Basic HTML and CSS will become essential skills for adults
“I think that everyone today more and more is going to need how to, need to know how to write basic HTML, to understand CSS, to have some of the tools to manipulate environments that they live in, and that includes different kinds of scripting. So whether it's …”
Susan Mernit Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:39 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

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