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Why I Still Hand-Write CSS in 2026

Tailwind is great. UnoCSS is blazing fast. Yet every few months I come back to hand-writing CSS variables, custom properties, and good old :root experiments…

Maybe it’s the illusion of control. Or maybe I just enjoy suffering 3-pixel alignment battles at 2:37 AM.

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Letter to 2025 Me (Arrived Very Late)

Dear past self,

You thought you were already quite behind. Turns out 2026 me is even more spectacularly behind. Congrats.

But hey — at least that side project you procrastinated on for 28 months is finally… done. And absolutely no one is using it. Classic.

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Coffee Prices Are Testing My Dignity

$5.80 for black coffee. $7.20 for oat-milk flat white. $8.90 if you want it “dirty”.

I stood at the counter doing mental math: is my self-respect worth more or less than this cup?

Ended up ordering the cheapest iced americano and sitting in the corner pretending I’m deep in thought.

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