That said, for learning the "right" way to think about and use CSS, https://every-layout.dev is hands-down the best resource I've encountered in my 20+ years working with websites.

I barely got into the "dunking" on Tailwind when I saw this.

> If you misspell one of these plain strings your editor is not going to tell you.

Ummm ... sure, if you're one of the 1% of devs who refuse to use a linter. Either the author is part of that 1%, or maybe they just weren't aware of Tailwind's linting capabilities (https://tailwindcss.com/blog/introducing-linting-for-tailwin...).

Now, to be fair, they wrote the article in 2025, and Tailwind linting was only released five years prior (in 2020) ... five years is hardly long enough to learn relevant tech for your industry /s

The rest of the article seemed similarly ill-informed, with the author fixating on meaningless byte-size differences in contrived examples. However, he ignores the fact that Tailwind is used on some of the most performant sites on the Internet. He also ignores the fact that (for 99% of sites at least) sacrificing a k or two of bandwidth is well worth it for a major increase in developability.

With Tailwind you completely get rid of stylesheets: that alone is huge! There's a reason why so many devs use Tailwind: they don't worry about minimal file size differences, but they do care about massive savings in development time and complexity reduction.