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I was in no way talking about you, I was talking about backend devs in general who are thankful for something like Tailwind.

Just like I, a front-end dev + designer am thankful for something like Firebase, because my backend skills are fairly nonexistent.

This is the best design app since 2016. Has Google Docs-alike multiplayer editing but in a design doc. Love Figma.

I'll try and clarify what I mean here. Tailwind seems to appeal to devs who feel they never fully grasped CSS + design.

Because it provides a copy-pastable subset of reliable classes where you end result will look good.

As a company we are often hired to fill a knowledge gap (exactly in design and front-end). The nature of agency work is to leave a deliverable for the client to work with.

My idea is that when the project is over and the design/front-end gap still exists in the team, perhaps it is better to leave something more manipulatable (I used the word malleable originally).

I think with the great docs that Tailwind has it might be easier for someone who is not a front-end dev to manipulate a `<div class="p-4">` to `<div class="p-3">` than to come across a BEM/ITCSS component, written in SCSS* where you have to understand much more concepts to manipulate it skillfully.

*(our preferred stack really)

I agree, but none of those tweets were directed at the authors. They were just talking about Tailwind in general. One was a poor joke.

My 3 blog posts were a genuine attempt at trying to dissect what I didn't like about the framework. Many people wrote in to thank me for that perspective.

I find it unfair to single out two historical tweets neither of which is directed at the authors.

I was just using my other Twitter accounts to stay up to date, it's not a big deal.

I just genuinely wonder if blocking people that don't agree with you is a good strategy.

I guess over time things also changed, Tailwind 2y ago was not the same as Tailwind now. They hired a bigger team and became much more of a company.

The context is that we're primarily a design company, the front-end is a way to express our designs.

A big reason for me is that I want the bigger group in our company to experiment with several CSS techniques to grow as front-end developers. If I (as a manager) set a constraint on one type of CSS it is difficult to learn more.

As an agency it makes sense to have broad capabilities. I think as a freelancer it's super fine to just constrain yourself to what you like, as you state there is huge demand out there.

Nice of you to look up those from my hundreds of tweets.

Now, since we bought Tailwind UI to do our work, we are technically also a customer.