You follow a few tutorials and feel pretty good with the small projects you’ve been able to build. Then you have a cool idea for your own project, you open up VS Code, and you have no idea where to start.

This is a common problem, and it happens because understanding something is not the same thing as being able to do something.

Other awesome stuff around the web:

• Naming Variables in CSS by Jonathan Dallas

What I’ve been up to this week:

• How to create and style lists with HTML & CSS
• Simplify your code with this underused pseudo-class
• Using CSS custom properties like this is a waste

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