# Tailwind

URL: https://avavu.au/tailwind

[Wikipedia: Tailwind CSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailwind_CSS)

**Tailwind** is a CSS framework that I have used in many of my projects, including [Beat Me at Boggle](https://avavu.au/games/beat-me-at-boggle) and [Suburble](https://avavu.au/games/suburble).

My email service [Showroom](https://avavu.au/web/showroom) notably does not use Tailwind. I did use Tailwind in an early version of the site, but I eventually decided against it. A large part of that was two blog posts that I read, [*Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS*](https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/) and [*Tailwind and the Femininity of CSS*](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-css), both articles written by women about using Tailwind. There are three languages you learn when you learn webdev: CSS, HTML, and [JavaScript](https://avavu.au/javascript), and CSS is the one that's about making the website look pretty, in other words, [it's the one for girls](https://medium.com/@Heydon/reluctant-gatekeeping-the-problem-with-full-stack-e9ad836570f6). Tailwind is one way of smoothing over some of the annoyance of CSS. It can be good, and can be bad, depending on the use-case, and I've decided to stop using it by default and really learn good old-fashioned CSS.