It took me 6 years to realize I had a great idea

Today is a bit of a story about how sometimes it can take a really long time to realize that you've actually had a really good idea. Or, well, that's the case for me, at least. You see, I recently have become so excited about how we can use a CSS feature that I'm changing my approach to creating the core structure for websites going forward. The sort of final version of this idea I'm talking about is something that I posted about this week on my main channel, but in reality, it's something I figured out over five years ago, and I just never realized how great it was at the time. Or rather, I realized I was onto something, and then, for reasons we'll get to later, I stopped bothering with it and eventually totally forgot about it. Other awesome stuff around the web: * CSS Wrapped: 2023 on the Chrome for Developers blog [https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-wrapped-2023] * A few ways CSS is easier to write in 2023 by Geoff Graham [https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/11/few-ways-css-easier-write-2023] What I've been up to this week (and other links of mine that I mentioned): * My first video on Grid [https://youtu.be/plRcoRqLriw] * My video from 2018 on grid as a container replacement [https://youtu.be/eC2v0v229Ec] * My recent video on using grid as a container replacement [https://youtu.be/eC2v0v229Ec] * My video from this week that expands on that idea [https://youtu.be/cf-J4ffMBfo] * I ranked the CSS units into different tiers [https://youtu.be/S0wilV67hjQ]

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I have a newsletter where I usually start things off with pretty long general musings before I share the content I've created in the previous week, as well as any interesting articles I've stumbled across in the last week.  Not everyone likes reading or having more emails in their inbox, though, so this podcast is an audio version of my newsletters. They aren't tutorials or technical explorations like my regular videos are, but instead tend to talk about a wide range of different topics, though they're generally at least somewhat related to front-end development in some way.