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Ben Halpern @ben
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Meme Monday
Publish Date: May 26
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Reid BurtonMay 26, 2025You know... if we go on strike, the entirety of the internet (and society as we know it) could collapse.
- Reid BurtonMay 26, 2025
You know... AI is trained off of our code, so the less good code we publish, the slower AI becomes good.
George JohnsonMay 27, 2025Notice how on quiet days this is painfully true.
Well until that message pings up 10 mins before quitting time, "hey you got a sec, we have a problem", and you know you're going to be eating beans on toast for dinner around 11pm!
Martin CallMay 30, 2025Haha I just saw a similar one at a pub quiz yesterday -
caption was "Moving our data center to the cloud"
Keith Solomon May 26, 2025When our fridge died last year, we almost bought one...turns out the smallest one they make was 3" too wide for the existing opening. And I wasn't spending another $10k on top of $3k for the fridge to remodel the kitchen! 🤣
The_Keizzmann😁🎹🎹💻May 29, 2025Oh man, he about to get more upset when he checks
console.log("Cat">"Dog")
Ben SinclairMay 27, 2025You mean a wrapper that centres a div? There are about 20 ways of centring things that all work well and have for years, and I'm betting every framework out there works with at least one.
- George JohnsonMay 27, 2025
My daughter's boyfriend has just started his first tech job after college....I can smell fear! Mwhahaha!
Stephen RenaldMay 28, 2025Remember those vids where the monitor goes flying out the windows?
Yup this is it!
- Reid BurtonMay 26, 2025
Wow... Google is the "pinnacle of all human knowledge" So how did they get this wrong:
Script to open IE (windows only):
Set objExplorer = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") With objExplorer .ToolBar = 1 .StatusBar = 1 .Visible = 1 .AddressBar = 1 End WithSave it as a
.vbsfile. 
Nathan TarbertMay 26, 2025meme monday’s always make my week a bit better ngl - you ever notice if these little inside jokes actually make teams stick together more, or am i just getting too sentimental about dumb stuff?
- Alvaro MontoroMay 26, 2025
Short answer (for this particular case): this is a comic about CSS, poking fun at Tailwind is almost a given. But it's all in good fun.
- Alvaro MontoroMay 27, 2025
It is a little bit of many things. From a technical perspective, Tailwind has shortcomings (just like any other tool): steep learning curve, bloated HTML, readability and maintainability challenges, poor separation of concerns... But some of the reasons are not necessarily technical: its creators use some aggressive marketing and its community includes many obnoxious supporters who fail to see the tool's shortcomings and will defend Tailwind as the panacea for web styling, when it isn't. It's just a tool, like many others. Used correctly, it will be great; used poorly, it will be terrible... Just like any other tool.
- Reid BurtonMay 27, 2025
Yea... I probably fall into that "use poorly" group by using it with clsx and scss.
- Massimo ArtizzuMay 27, 2025
"Large projects" are probably the least fitting targets for Tailwind, where a possibly large variety of developers with different levels of experience will have to deal with that arbitrary layer language over CSS, intricate styling mechanisms are expressed in unstructured lists of strings, automated RUM reports are rendered incomprehensible ("83.2% of users clicked on [.list.of-36.css.'classes']"), most of Tailwind's alleged advantages don't matter and names and semantics are most important.
Tailwind makes us sloppy coders.
- Ben SinclairMay 27, 2025
The goal behind Tailwind is almost exactly the opposite of the goal of CSS. It wants to combine style and content, so to make a change you need to edit all of your components individually. Its examples and "best-practice" rely on nesting a lot of junk elements, which ties into the stated aim of killing separation, and the solutions to the problems it introduces are effected with multiple additional build steps to get to the point where it's nearly as useful as CSS was in the first place.
- Reid BurtonMay 28, 2025
I mainly use tailwind for styling, and I use scss (sass, but with css syntax) for complex styles that tailwind does not have classes for
Peter VivoMay 30, 2025I mainly use tailwind for layout and responsivity. I don't spend my time to style.
Anton MelnykMay 29, 2025It's really reverting notion of styles being separate from template (which is a good thing). It pollutes the markup and that's it. Modern CSS is so powerful and easier than before at the same time, that you don't really need any additional thing on top of it.
- Reid BurtonMay 30, 2025
I would recommend the "tailwind fold" extension for vscode, but it doesn't play nice w/ clsx
Nevo DavidMay 26, 2025Always look forward to Meme Monday, honestly it just makes my day a bit better every time.
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