--- title: Fall In Love With CSS - Piper Thunstrom | daily.dev description: CSS is an ancillary technology for many software developers, similar to other declarative languages used for specific tasks. Historically there's been a deep... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fall-in-love-with-css---piper-thunstrom-sm7t0qyzn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Fall In Love With CSS - Piper Thunstrom | daily.dev og:description: CSS is an ancillary technology for many software developers, similar to other declarative languages used for specific tasks. Historically there's been a deep... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fall-in-love-with-css---piper-thunstrom-sm7t0qyzn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sm7T0QYzn.png og:image:alt: Fall In Love With CSS - Piper Thunstrom 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. # Fall In Love With CSS - Piper Thunstrom **[PyCon US](https://daily.dev/sources/pyconus)** · 32 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CSS is an ancillary technology for many software developers, similar to other declarative languages used for specific tasks. Historically there's been a deep mistrust of the language, embedded in jokes and so many projects that try to remove the need to write any CSS. Let me show you how to think about CSS. 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