Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship
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There's a worrying trend in modern web development, where developers are throwing away decades of carefully wrought systems for a bit of perceived convenience. Tools such as Tailwind CSS seem to be spreading like wildfire, with very few people ever willing to acknowledge the regression they bring to our field. And I'm getting tired of it
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Wait CSS supports nesting? Since when?

Also, SASS’s mixins, variables (CSS has variables too but they work differently), and many of the other features are hard to beat, which is why I feel like it’s almost never a negative to get it up and running on any project I work on (unless the project is a tiny one-off, then it’s probably not worth it). One thing I like is that it’s close to CSS - increasing the transparency - while still providing abstractions that let you save time and increase consistency across the project.

Paradox
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Landed earlier this year :D

I used to really use mixins a ton, but these days I haven’t really written any in a good long time. Still useful, still something plain-ol-css can’t do, but I’ve found autoprefixer has managed to handle most of my mixin needs.

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