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This little CSS experiment is usually the kind of irrelevant demonstration that is commonly frowned upon because it has no practical use.

But no matter how apparently futile this showcase can appear, it's still inherently valid because it maintains a clean separation between content (which in this case comprises 14 lines of HTML) and its representation (provided by its CSS styling).

I won't use it but I will learn from it.

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>This little CSS experiment is usually the kind of irrelevant demonstration that is commonly frowned upon because it has no practical use.

How does this not have a practical use? This isn't "I designed Twitter's icon with CSS", this is actual text styles.

Anybody doing an 80's style project, for example, could use those.

Who would frown upon such an awesome demonstration?

The awful HN crowd

Build anything and someone (usually the top comment on Hacker News) will dismiss it, mock you for wasting your time, and talk about how X was already solved years ago.

And then they'll link to their project after talking smack. I call it shark tank syndrome

See also: the engineering dance. When two engineers meet and shit test each other on their knowledge, until both are satisfied they are better than the other guy.

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