You might be wasting your time. Time wasters disguised as time

You might be wasting your time. Time wasters disguised as time savers.

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There are so many things we spend time on thinking they'll save us more in the long run but really, do they? Today on Bad at CSS we're going to dive into a list of things we think are Time Wasters disguised as Time Savers. 0:00 - Is the juice worth the squeeze? 0:50 - Tests 6:07 - CI/CD* 13:37 - Build systems 16:02 - Rewrites 22:42 - Note taking apps 31:27 - Courses 38:37 - A tangent on Objective-C and fixing squiggles 41:37 - More CI/CD problems 44:07 - Append Only 46:07 - Color and Dark Mode 56:28 - Designing with constraint 60:00 - Not engagement farming… tell us your time wasters Links Bad at CSS — https://x.com/badatcss Adam Argyle — https://x.com/argyleink David East — https://x.com/_davideast

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