miniblog.

← Back to all posts
Dec 5, 2019 at 04:25
Purgecss is a really cool tool for removing unused CSS based on an analysis of your HTML. For example, unused classes. https://www.purgecss.com/ This gives CSS libraries much more scope to add features without hurting bundle size!
PurgeCSS - Remove unused CSS | PurgeCSS
PurgeCSS is a tool to remove unused CSS from your project

Related Posts

Jan 22, 2026 at 20:11
10
The vast majority of libraries have a single maintainer. Even if you weight by downloads, roughly half of downloaded libraries have a single maintainer too.
Open Source is one person
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re not real smrt, it seems like pointing out an open source project is written by one person in a country you don’t like is a bad thing. It could be. But it also could be the software running THE WHOLE F*CKING PLANET is written by one person. In a country. But we have no idea which country. It’s not the same person mind you, but it’s one person.
Jan 15, 2026 at 20:06
2
My default assumption is that external libraries are better than what I (or an LLM) would write in a v1. The extra effort to publish a project generally signifies that the author has spent a good amount of time on the problem. I end up prompting LLMs to prefer external code.
Jul 6, 2024 at 07:09
Coming from JS or Python, imports in Rust feel weird. They're entirely optional aliases for fully qualified symbols, which are always available. I don't know of many other languages where you can just start using libraries. Java is the only one I can think of.