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It is interesting that this uses a podcast + text rather than what would have been a more conventional video based tutorial. The use of a podcast for describing something so fundamentally visual as CSS looks really unusual. I just started going through and came back here to note that it somehow seems to work well!

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I wonder if videos are a little overused as tutorials. Videos aren't very searchable (yet), and they are unreliable to scan through (in most scrubbing implementations I've seen), so while they are nice to get started, they are hard to return to later to brush up on something.

I love this podcast + text approach in theory. A podcast to talk through the material, and a really well written page to reference. The CSS Grid page is a great example of this.

Aside: As someone who has been in web dev for a while, sometimes I feel like what I need is an "unlearn CSS" tutorial, to erase some old habits.

Yes, I found that odd as well, no plan to listen to 15 min podcast on a web-page when Im just trying to quickly learn something I need to know to fix my code. Though overall the aesthetics of the site are nice, very clean look and nicely organized.

Content designed to answer individual questions (eg StackOverflow) is often different in form than content designed to provide comprehensive education like college classes.

That's poor strategy when creating developer docs, no one wants to listen to a 15 min podcast when they come to a page to learn something or find an answer to their question. Most people on website are scanning for relevant information and they don't want to spend more time than needed, that is how good content should be presented.

These are not developer docs first. There are plenty of wonderful other resources that serve as CSS dev docs as a primary resource.

Are you not aware that just because a certain piece of content doesn't suit you at this moment, doesn't mean that the content is bad?

In addition to yourself, there are other people in other situations who are looking for different kinds of content.

I've listened to some of the podcast and it is really good, even in the car where you're highly unlikely to have devtools open.

At first blush, I like it a lot, and am eager to give it a try. I'm busy, and, no matter how much more efficient videos would be in an ideal world, I just don't have a lot of time to sit down and watch them. I also like to get away from the screen and go see what the outside world looks like every so often, y'know?

With a podcast, though, I can listen while I do dishes or whatever, and hopefully that will at least give me enough background information that I can understand the written parts more quickly.

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