A while back I saw the Trello CSS Guide swim around my Twitter timeline. I’ve been using that style of writing CSS ever since, I’ve even started to introduce it ever so slightly in the Bloglovin CSS (although converting a two year old project is not something you do in one go). I’ve found the guide to result in very maintainable CSS code. It’s even possible to make changes without being scared of breaking stuff, because it’s all so neatly namespaced.

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I’ve been spending an unreasonable amount of time thinking about CSS and all the various preprocessors lately. Working on a large project like Bloglovin has given me some perspective. I used to work on smaller “content sites” powered by Drupal where the complexity and number of pages where a lot less significant. I also used to be the sole person writing CSS for any one project. Watch out, I’m not really sure where I’m about to take this article.

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