Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS
About 8 years ago, a colleague and I interviewed a nervous kid fresh from undergrad. He was applying for a junior front-end position at our fast-growing startup. Dressed in a shiny, double-breasted suit and wingtip shoes, he followed us into a tiny office (space was so limited) where we conducted interviews.<p>"Tell us about your CSS experience," we asked him.<p>"Ah, yes. I, well, haha, of course. The CSS is where you make your calls, to the database, ah, server, ah, of course."<p>Unsurprisingly, we did not hire the applicant, though his answer to our question lived on in infamy for many years. But all that changed, today, reading this. The joke was on us. That kid was clearly from a future of which we had no awareness. Starting today, I'll always trust programmer applicants donning double-breasted suits.