Foreword

You're doing it wrong!

One day, a few years ago, I tweeted (https://twitter.com/Malarkey/status/6435096054):

"Pro tip — 'If your CSS is complicated enough to need a compiler or pre-processor, you’re [sic] doing it wrong!'"

After all, CSS isn't difficult to learn and it's easy to write and write quickly, so why would you need something like Sass?

People reacted (as they do) and told me I was wrong. They offered plenty of advice and plenty of reasons why using Sass would benefit what I do. I wasn't oblivious to their enthusiasm, so I pulled up the Sass website, ready to dive in:

"First of all, let's get Sass up and running. If you're using OS X, you'll already have Ruby installed. Windows users can install Ruby via the Windows installer, and ...

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