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by deergomoo 1856 days ago
> I am very, very bad with CSS and can't wrap my head around it, but tailwind allowed me to create a very pretty, responsive homepage

Congrats, you now know CSS! It sounds like I'm joking but honestly, Tailwind is essentially composable shorthand for CSS with a design system applied. If you grok Tailwind, you understand the concepts of CSS, you just might not know the full names for all the properties and values.
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domano 1856 days ago
Yes, but when i try to apply this knowledge i fail every time.

I do unterstand the basic ideas behind CSS, but is just cant apply it. Tailwind allowed me to apply it.

If i could, i would prefer to write CSS! After 10 years i have given up though.

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dmitriid 1856 days ago
That's the thing about Tailwind. It's (almost) the right abstraction.

Personal anecdote, I understood how flexbox works only after using Tailwind for a personal project.

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