I have learned CSS Flexbox fourteen times. I have watched tutorials, read documentation, done exercises, and built projects using it. And yet, every single time I open a new project, I Google "flexbox center div" like it is my first day on Earth.

This is not a skill issue. This is just how flexbox works on the human brain. It enters, it helps, and then it leaves without saying goodbye.

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

"I will remember it this time." No you won't. Nobody does. Senior developers with 10 years of experience are Googling justify-content vs align-items right now. This is just the human condition.

The Resume Situation

I have "CSS" listed as a skill on my GitHub profile. This is technically true. I can write CSS. It just takes me 45 minutes and 6 Stack Overflow tabs to center one div.

My Current Solution

I bookmarked a flexbox cheatsheet. I have never once used the bookmark. I always just Google it again. The bookmark sits there, judging me.

Tailwind CSS fixed this by making me write flex items-center justify-center which I also Google every time but at least it feels more honest.

Anyway. display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center;. I will forget this by tomorrow.