The site positions itself as advocating for simplicity and minimalism in web development—stressing plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—but then pivots into building the entire project using React. That’s a contradiction.

If the goal is truly "plain vanilla web," introducing React (with its build tools, dependencies, and abstraction layers) runs counter to that ethos. A truly minimalist approach would skip frameworks entirely or at most use small, native JS modules.

So yes, it's philosophically inconsistent. Want to dig into a better alternative stack that sticks to that principle?

If you have a kid, please be a parent.

Huh? Is this a thing? There are endless online code formatting sites. It takes two seconds. Why would anyone ever do this? I don't get it.

CanIEmail? The answer is generally no.

Hacker News is just the gift that keeps on giving. :)

"New Studies Find No Evidence of Brain Injury in Havana Syndrome Cases"

This story is from two weeks ago. So which is it?

So then here's my luddite take. Can't they just unfurl wider stabilizers from the legs that increase their footprint? At slow speeds in low gravity it seems like they wouldn't need to be heavy or strong.

Tailwind exists largely because programmers don't like CSS. We no longer need frameworks for compatibility. The era of browser testing is over. And we don't need them to do things CSS can't do, as in the past couple of years nearly all browsers are handling the newer features.

My big gripe is simply that it makes a lot of sense to keep your structure, styles, and scripts separated. If something looks off I don't want to have to wonder whether it's classes, CSS, or scripts.

And ultimately, I don't think Tailwind does make things faster. I could come up with custom CSS helper classes AS NEEDED, and avoid all the problems I mentioned above. And the one I didn't mention is that this makes your code look like incomprehensible garbage. Tailwind HTML files using BEM are just not OK.

Keeping my html and CSS separate make everything I do faster and lighter. Most importantly, CSS is now mature and finally does all the things for all the browser that make the frameworks just enough less useful that they become bloat.

My two cents. I'm sure Tailwind is helpful for many. But I gotta preach the basics.

It rains diamonds on Neptune.