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Brian Douglas

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I write about programming, thing's I've learned whilst programming, and also some useful code snippets.

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Tailwind and slop apps

Tailwind is great. It's a quick way to style a webpage and offers incredible flexibility. The problem is, despite Tailwind being incredibly customisable I can instantly tell when a site is using Tailwind. It has a certain look and feel that is hard to shake. A few years ago this "look and feel" was fresh and classy…