Welcome to Syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about mix-ins and functions in CSS. That's right. There is a new proposal for mix-ins and functions to be coming to CSS just like we did in many of the

CSS pre-processors that's going to lead to an explosion of new ideas in CSS.

My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver with me as always is West Boss.

Hey, I am super stoked about this. It seems like CSS is working on a whole bunch of really interesting things in this

Mixins and functions proposal was accepted which means that it's now in the drafting stage to figure out what does it actually look like before it gets implemented in the

browsers but that means that we're gonna get it you know I'm pretty excited about it and we're gonna talk today about

what do they do what are they useful for, what are the ideas behind it, and just kind of what to look forward to.

Yeah, totally. And one of the reasons why I'm confident that we're going to get it, right?

Is that Miriam Suzanne is behind this, who, you know, core contributor to SAS, but she's also

the one who took the reins on container queries. And like that was something we felt like we were never going to get.

And sure enough, with her push, those ended up arriving

in the CSS platform and man, we're using them today and in addition to that hey

stuff that we're using today we're using Century we're using Century we're using

Century on our site in fact CJ just the other day he posted this morning that he was getting a lot of alerts for some errors and used our century to track down and that it was, hey what, guess what, a caching issue?

What was it? Oh, of course. It was a caching issue. What was it?

Oh, of course.

It was a caching issue.

So he was seeing some

uh, some uh, uh,

that was trying to load some data that wasn't there,

the data wasn't there because the old data was cached in our

Reddis, he dumped the cash, fixed the bugs, well at least fixed the errors from happening,

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