What Julia Evans thinks about CSS
Writes jvns.ca, a blog explaining networking, debugging and Linux internals in plain language and comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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2 dated positions, 2018 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Julia Evans has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldTailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.
No longer holdsI’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful (a lot of this post is about me reimplementing some of Tailwind’s limits!) but at this point I’d like to be able to pick and choose.
SaidI’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful (a lot of this post is about me reimplementing some of Tailwind’s limits!) but at this point I’d like to be able to pick and choose.
↗Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSSjvns.ca
- 8 years earlier
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Their wordsI ended up making this site with Tailwind CSS, and it helped me make a site I felt pretty happy with my minimal CSS skills and just 2 evenings of work!