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Finished: CSS for JavaScript Developers

I finally finished Josh Comeau’s CSS for JavaScript Developers course 🎉🎉

   Edit Profile  Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social 25 followers 104 following 30 posts Designer, developer. Organizer of chaos, lover of dogs.      ‪Max Taylor‬  ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ · 11m Just 4 short years after purchasing it, I've finally finished  @joshwcomeau.com 's CSS for JavaScript Developers course 🎉🎉🎉  A splash screen with fireworks and a message that reads "Woohoo!! You've done it!  Congratulations! You’ve just reached 100% completion of CSS for JavaScript Developers. It's been quite a journey, over 200 lessons, and you've made it right to the end. Thanks so much for going through this course! You deserve a high five and a pat on the back. Take a moment to celebrate, and appreciate how far you've come!" ALT        ‪Max Taylor‬  ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ · 13h My biggest takeaway after a week in Japan: America needs to up its toilet game. I miss those heated seats!       Reposted by you  ‪Dave Levitan‬  ‪@davelevitan.bsky.social‬ · 2d Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea  294  3.5K      ‪Max Taylor‬  ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ · 2d Me: I need to stop taking online courses and actually start building projects Every online course creator: ok, but here’s our Black Friday sale        ‪Max Taylor‬  ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ · 14d This is fine 🫠🫠🫠 www.authoritarian-stack.info  The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next www.authoritarian-stack.info        ‪Max Taylor‬  ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ · 14d Finally feeling ready to get out of tutorial hell and start building projects. Which probably means I should've started building a few months ago 😅 madebymax.dev/blog/2025-11... Breaking free from tutorial hell madebymax.dev       Reposted by you  ‪Adam Serwer‬  ‪@adamserwer.bsky.social‬ · 8mo American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.  1.4K  14K      ‪Max Taylor‬  ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ · 17d Were democrats just not paying attention on Tuesday, or….       Reposted by you  ‪Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‬  ‪@aoc.bsky.social‬ · 17d The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.  The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.  People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.  And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.  2K  15K     Reposted by you  ‪Jules Suzdaltsev‬  ‪@jules.su‬ · 17d Replied to  Jules Suzdaltsev Call them:  Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542  Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224  King (ME) 202 224-5344  Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324  Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152  Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521  Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841  Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451  Masto (NV) 202 224-3542  Warner (VA) 202 224-2023  Fetterman (PA) No Point  Show More  48  558     Reposted by you  ‪Jonathan Cohn‬  ‪@jonathancohn.bsky.social‬ · 20d I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.  www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...  ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit. www.cnn.com  151  2.7K     Reposted by you  ‪Archai‬  ‪@archai.bsky.social‬ · 22d This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.  Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor. ALT  58  4.3K     Reposted by you  ‪jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️‬  ‪@jennschiffer.com‬ · 22d i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up  1  1.4K     Reposted by you  ‪Zohran Kwame Mamdani‬  ‪@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social‬ · 22d  3.2K  20K     Reposted by you  ‪C. Robert Cargill‬  ‪@crobertcargill.bsky.social‬ · 22d As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.  The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.  41  3.1K     Reposted by you  ‪Janel Comeau 🍁‬  ‪@verybadllama.bsky.social‬ · 22d well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy  30  679     Reposted by you  ‪Jon of The North‬  ‪@krauza.bsky.social‬ · 26d ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences.  You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.  1  141     Reposted by you  ‪Accessibility Awareness‬  ‪@a11yawareness.bsky.social‬ · 26d Sharing Halloween pictures today? Don't forget to add alt text.  Photo of your kid's great candy haul? Needs alt text.  Photo of your kid' cute costume? Needs alt text.  Photo of your neighbor's rad yard decorations? Needs alt text.  Don't be a goblin. Add alt text.  1  56     Reposted by you  ‪Comfortably Numb‬  ‪@numb.comfortab.ly‬ · 28d If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.  ‪Matt Novak‬  ‪@paleofuture.bsky.social‬ · 28d California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits  California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits www.foxla.com  125  1.9K     Reposted by you  ‪Una Kravets‬  ‪@una.im‬ · 1mo We stopped shipping new JavaScript frameworks every week so now I guess we're shipping new AI browsers every week.  9  16     Reposted by you  ‪red aka cpu bronson aka brutus computus aka johnny cache‬  ‪@likethecolour.red‬ · 1mo the cool zone: 'let's put the book store online' eventually morphed into 'the online book store controls 40% of the computers on the internet and has broken them'  1  24     Reposted by you  ‪Ingrid Burrington‬  ‪@lifewinning.com‬ · 1mo the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist  211  4.2K      ‪Max Taylor‬  ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ · 1mo #nokings Portland  A crowd of people marching across the Hawthorne bridge on No Kings day ALT        ‪Max Taylor‬  ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ · 1mo AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/15/a...  AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats Some AI papers have a finding so good you just want to quote it everywhere. But many turn out to be trash. They’ve got bad statistics, they’ve got bad methodology, they’re really sales pieces, or t… pivot-to-ai.com   3      ‪Max Taylor‬  ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ · 1mo Love it  A cookie consent pop up blocking a politico article about the poor experience of cookie consent  ALT  ‪Piccalilli‬  ‪@piccalil.li‬ · 1mo Forced cookie banners really are a pain for everyone, so this is good news.   www.politico.eu/article/euro...  Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it. The European Commission wants to take a bite out of privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners. www.politico.eu       Reposted by you  ‪Sara Joy ☠️‬  ‪@sjoy.lol‬ · 1mo bros: we have made AI   nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it’s got anxiety  ‪Ed Zitron‬  ‪@edzitron.com‬ · 1mo Had a really good time with Peter talking about the AI bubble, and said the following, which i stand by:  "I don't do this because I'm like "I'm going to be nasty." No, I do it because I'm pissed off at the way they fucked up the computer."   4     Reposted by you  ‪Anindita Basu Sempere‬  ‪@anindita.org‬ · 2mo This is excellent.   “…the technology’s real value isn’t improving productivity, or even in improving products. Rather, it’s a social mechanism employed to ensure compliance in the workplace, and to weaken worker power.”  ‪mandy brown‬  ‪@aworkinglibrary.com‬ · 2mo We are well past the point at which talking uncritically about AI should be seen as deeply embarrassing. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...  Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com “Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way. ethanmarcotte.com   3     Reposted by you  ‪Kory Bing 🔜 MFF O8‬  ‪@korybing.bsky.social‬ · 1mo Love that we all know this is going to happen and have known it since this shit was introduced yet all we can do is wait for the dumbest and most easily avoidable economy crash of all time.  ‪Unusual Whales‬  ‪@unusualwhales.bsky.social‬ · 1mo AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW  5  112     Reposted by you  ‪Kashana‬  ‪@kashana.blacksky.app‬ · 1mo Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.  127  928     Reposted by you  ‪Django Wexler‬  ‪@djangowexler.bsky.social‬ · 1mo My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?  Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but  140  4.5K       Max Taylor ‪@madebymax.bsky.social‬ Home Explore Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Saved Profile Settings  New Post Search Discover Following CSS Feed More feeds Trending  National Guard Shooting SEGA Criticism Hong Kong Fire Fani Willis Case Kristi Noem Rachel Reeves Feedback • Privacy • Terms • Help  A splash screen with fireworks and a message that reads "Woohoo!! You've done it!  Congratulations! You’ve just reached 100% completion of CSS for JavaScript Developers. It's been quite a journey, over 200 lessons, and you've made it right to the end. Thanks so much for going through this course! You deserve a high five and a pat on the back. Take a moment to celebrate, and appreciate how far you've come!" A splash screen with fireworks and a message that reads "Woohoo!! You've done it!  Congratulations! You’ve just reached 100% completion of CSS for JavaScript Developers. It's been quite a journey, over 200 lessons, and you've made it right to the end. Thanks so much for going through this course! You deserve a high five and a pat on the back. Take a moment to celebrate, and appreciate how far you've come!"

I originally purchased the course during the pre-release period about 4 years ago, but never got around to working on it (that’s a pretty common theme).

After doing his Whimsical Animations course earlier this fall I was finally inspired to go back and work on the CSS one. It’s actually probably a good thing I didn’t do it until now because it required a decent amount of React knowledge that I definitely didn’t have when I first bought it.

Overall I thought it was a really great course. A lot of it was theoretically things I already knew, but Josh goes into such incredible depth on all the topics that I learned a ton! Highly recommended.

Working on both courses was starting to make me wish I’d signed up for his Joy of React course at the pre-release price when it first came out. I couldn’t quite justify paying full price for it with all the other courses I’ve bought lately, but wouldn’t you know it - he has a Black Friday sale going on now. So…yeah. I’m doing Joy of React now.