--- title: Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls | daily.dev description: The post introduces the lobotomized owl selector in CSS as a way to automate the layout of flow content, reduce bloat, and speed up development. It discusses... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls-9mritwq2e twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls | daily.dev og:description: The post introduces the lobotomized owl selector in CSS as a way to automate the layout of flow content, reduce bloat, and speed up development. It discusses... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls-9mritwq2e og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9mRitWq2E.png og:image:alt: Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 9 min read · 15 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary The post introduces the lobotomized owl selector in CSS as a way to automate the layout of flow content, reduce bloat, and speed up development. It discusses the use of class selectors, the issue of bloat, the performance of CSS selectors, and the concept of exception-driven design. The post explains how contextual awareness and using the * selector can help achieve more efficient and maintainable styling. It highlights the benefits of using em units for margins and the inheritability of the owl selector's style declaration. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@eduplessis** · 4 upvotes > Has a suggestion, can we provide some kind of tag for link. Like `Latest`, `Worth Reading`, `Old but gold`. > > And put some comments after the link? **@eduplessis** · 1 upvotes > Ok... when I first saw this post on daily.dev, I thought it was a retake or the person has made I second thought on that old article (2014). But no it's just a link to a old article. Don't know if it was on purpose to have some click, but damn I use daily.dev to get fresh news from the tech industrie not the archive. **@anthony404** · 1 upvotes > idk why but lobotomized owl is the funniest thing i've heard today ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls-9mritwq2e) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls-9mritwq2e","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls-9mritwq2e"},"datePublished":"2023-02-09T10:43:09.522Z","dateModified":"2024-04-08T09:58:01.360Z","description":"The post introduces the lobotomized owl selector in CSS as a way to automate the layout of flow content, reduce bloat, and speed up development. 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Don’t know if it was on purpose to have some click, but damn I use daily.dev to get fresh news from the tech industrie not the archive.","datePublished":"2023-02-14T15:19:10.489Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/9mRitWq2E#c-Dr-UrdF9s","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Edouard Duplessis","url":"https://daily.dev/eduplessis","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/398245?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"idk why but lobotomized owl is the funniest thing i’ve heard today","datePublished":"2023-02-25T06:18:13.042Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/9mRitWq2E#c-aWCdVrPbp","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"anthony valdes","url":"https://daily.dev/anthony404","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/83556946?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```