Tailwind

Tailwind is a CSS framework that I have used in many of my projects, including Beat Me At Boggle and Suburble.

My email service 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 and 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, and CSS is the one that’s about making the website look pretty, in other words, it’s the one for girls. 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.