Robin has started putting together these great posts about some of the little problems we have to solve when working on Tailwind CSS internals 👍🏻

Squatted 405 this morning for the first time in probably ten years 🥹

Distinguished engineers (E9) at Meta make $3,251,000+ per year. Among tens of thousands of strong engineers at Meta, <<1% of them are E9.

One thing I've seen common among all of them is that they are world-class writers.

Screw it!

I'm giving away my guide on how to start a writing habit 🎁

I've procrastinated because I kept overthinking how to turn it into a product — but it doesn't need to be.

I've spent a lot of time writing it and I want people to read it.

It's 100% free! (link below)

This week we released Headless UI v2.0 for React ⚛️

Includes tons of new stuff driven by our work on Catalyst —

⚓ Built-in anchor positioning
✅ New form element components
🔮 Combobox list virtualization
💅🏻 New docs website

...and a bunch more 🎉

tailwindcss.com/blog/headless-…

CSS is overcomplicated for the same reason that medieval philosophy is: it starts from a lie. Medieval philosophers were trying to reconcile observation with scripture. CSS is trying to separate content from presentation.

Sunday rant.

For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to…

A lot of people have asked how we built this hero.

I think you might be a bit disappointed with how simple it is but lets take a look anyway 👇

For those who didn't know, @SavvyCal is an Elixir/Phoenix application. We use (and love) Inertia.js for all our React-driven pages.

I finally documented and released our Inertia adapter! ✨ github.com/svycal/inertia… #myelixirstatus

And Tailwind CSS 🥰

const ... is stupid and you're using it wrong

My talk at Epic Web: do what you want, but let me be 😂

epicweb.dev/talks/let-me-be

I've shared this before but even though I agree with Thorsten Ball that these are the basics, I feel like they're simultaneously so uncommon that this post could be called 'How to be a 10x engineer'.

registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/the-basics

Founder friends: Do you do publish your most interesting writing on your company blog or your personal blog? Why?

🌵 React Conf in Vegas in two weeks — who's going?

Big betalist.com behind-the-scenes update

→ Replaced regular CSS with Tailwind CSS
→ Replaced esbuild with importmap
→ Removed old jQuery code

Decided to YOLO it. Removed all old CSS stylesheets and went through the site to fix all the glaring issues.

A lot of…