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lol I've seen many reactionary takes in my workplace from front-end engineers (or even on Hackernews) reacting to Tailwind as "this is just inline styles with e

lol I've seen many reactionary takes in my workplace from front-end engineers (or even on Hackernews) reacting to Tailwind as "this is just inline styles with extra steps!" ... no, "inline styles with extra steps" is what you're doing now with CSS: writing a hundred one-off ".container" classes and bundling that with a hundred other ".container" and ".wrapper" classes across a hundred different components in the app. Tailwind is revolutionary. It has completely changed the way I develop, and I will evangelize it at every opportunity. I've started migrating a major project to Tailwind, and for the first time I'm not horrified by having to deal with conflicting stylesheets, etc. Everything I need to know about how a component looks is kept in the component, where it should be, and the bundle size is smaller than ever because Tailwind can prune the styles down to exactly what I'm using. Tailwind is great, and shoutout to Adam Wathan's youtube channel- very helpful in learning how it works and convincing me to try it.

vinger 6y ago
Adam's success is a podcast success story. The patience required to slowly build up an audience by creating daily videos/postcasts that incrementally built an application or framework. Adam had success time and again but he always builds profits and abandons. PHP without loops, test driven laravel are two other successful audiences that were built, sold to and abandon. He has seemed to move on from refactoring ui. It has been a year+ since Tailwinds has been released. How much longer before Adam jumps to the next thing?
- corytheboyd 6y ago
  What’s wrong with him pursuing other projects. Creators aren’t restricted to only maintaining the first thing they release for the rest of their lives. I will say I am a bit worried about their headless ui project, seems to have been in “early” development for a while and feels like something that maybe should have been ready by the time tailwindcss was. I’m just assuming that project is dead in the water, but it doesn’t matter so much to me because I get enough value out of just tailwindcss

vinger 6y ago

Adam's success is a podcast success story. The patience required to slowly build up an audience by creating daily videos/postcasts that incrementally built an application or framework. Adam had success time and again but he always builds profits and abandons. PHP without loops, test driven laravel are two other successful audiences that were built, sold to and abandon. He has seemed to move on from refactoring ui. It has been a year+ since Tailwinds has been released. How much longer before Adam jumps to the next thing?

corytheboyd 6y ago
What’s wrong with him pursuing other projects. Creators aren’t restricted to only maintaining the first thing they release for the rest of their lives. I will say I am a bit worried about their headless ui project, seems to have been in “early” development for a while and feels like something that maybe should have been ready by the time tailwindcss was. I’m just assuming that project is dead in the water, but it doesn’t matter so much to me because I get enough value out of just tailwindcss