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   Paddy Duke (paddyduke@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 00:05:12 JST Paddy Duke

   You'll hear "Tailwind is so good. It really streamlines my development process.", and when you look at their code, this is what a single, plain button looks like:

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     Paddy Duke (paddyduke@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 00:05:20 JST Paddy Duke

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     There are a bunch of modern web dev tools that all seem like they're geared towards really streamlining the developer experience of building something exactly once and leaving it. Maintenance be damned.

     I don't think by itself that's necessarily a bad thing – sometimes you just want to publish a thing and be done – but most things on the web are not finished or perfect. It feels increasingly like the tools we build the web with fight against the nature of the platform rather than embrace it.