I felt the same way when I started using Tailwind four years ago; I grumbled about not only how ugly it was they were a few issues: the rendering took a few 100ms longer, and if you inspected the HTML, the Chrome debugger would bring lower RAM systems to a complete crawl. But after a year, Chrome fixed issues with using so many classes. Then, when I started using it in a design system, it shined, modifying a component with nothing but some atomic classes with the side effects of not needing to write CSS anymore.
Bootstrap is fantastic for semantic HTML and CSS, with no build steps required.
I'm just starting to read your work. Definitely enjoy the humor and honesty. I'm also getting back into the field after taking a 2 year sabbatical. It's been surprisingly harder than I would've guessed. I've spent about 6 months looking for stable work and I only just found some after a temporary contract in between to help get my resume current. I also really appreciate the bit about lowering expectations for blog posts. Need to figure out how to lower the self-made barrier with sharing.
I just wanna say I’ve been a fan of your writing since before you wrote that post about your bifurcated graduation ceremony (honor students /= “the REAL class of 20whatever year it was.). So glad to find you on Substack.
I felt the same way when I started using Tailwind four years ago; I grumbled about not only how ugly it was they were a few issues: the rendering took a few 100ms longer, and if you inspected the HTML, the Chrome debugger would bring lower RAM systems to a complete crawl. But after a year, Chrome fixed issues with using so many classes. Then, when I started using it in a design system, it shined, modifying a component with nothing but some atomic classes with the side effects of not needing to write CSS anymore.
Bootstrap is fantastic for semantic HTML and CSS, with no build steps required.
Tailwind/Atomic Classes for design systems.
I'm just starting to read your work. Definitely enjoy the humor and honesty. I'm also getting back into the field after taking a 2 year sabbatical. It's been surprisingly harder than I would've guessed. I've spent about 6 months looking for stable work and I only just found some after a temporary contract in between to help get my resume current. I also really appreciate the bit about lowering expectations for blog posts. Need to figure out how to lower the self-made barrier with sharing.
Have been loving Tailwind for putting things together quickly. Play.tailwindcss.com is great for quick prototyping too.
I always love your writing Ernie. I sent this to Julian. I know he’ll get a kick out of it.
I just wanna say I’ve been a fan of your writing since before you wrote that post about your bifurcated graduation ceremony (honor students /= “the REAL class of 20whatever year it was.). So glad to find you on Substack.
I wish I had some idea how to help, but the only Tailwind I know is an after-effect of eating Mexican food.