Sadly, http://giveupandusetables.com is no longer up, because I always liked pointing to that.

The amount of time we spend fighting with CSS to do things that are simple is insane.

The web is not a well-designed platform. It grew organically out of a document system under the stewardship of a million browser developers with no leadership, and it shows. It's a series of hacks upon hacks upon hacks that only make a reasonable, decent computing platform by the combined might of the entire software industry making tools and frameworks and JavaScript optimizing compilers and whatnot for it.