"value":"\n <p>Yesterday, I was investigating a CSS issue.<\/p>\n\n<p>It's a known issue due to some legacy code in the website's CSS that I'd fixed before but now needed to extend.<\/p>\n\n<p>Instead of blindly following the same path and extending my previous fix, I decided to rethink the problem and my approach.<\/p>\n\n<p>I re-read my documentation and re-reviewed potential solutions I'd evaluated previously.<\/p>\n\n<p>I decided to take a different approach to solving the problem and found an open-source plugin that someone else had written that gave me the functionality I needed instead of writing it from scratch.<\/p>\n\n<p>I read the code and did a short spike to see if it worked with the existing configuration.<\/p>\n\n<p>After some experimentation, I got it to work and added it to the project.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"here%27s-the-thing\">Here's the Thing<\/h2>\n\n<p>The plugin I used was only 34 lines of code, but these are lines I didn't need to write or will need to maintain.<\/p>\n\n<p>If it works, why would I write it myself?<\/p>\n\n<p>I'd rather use what someone else has written and contribute if I find a bug or need a new feature.<\/p>\n\n<p>That's the benefit of open-source software, and why I use Drupal, PHP, Sculpin, Tailwind CSS, Nix, and others.<\/p>\n\n ",
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