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Not always. I had to learn early in my career that sometimes when the founder says they want your honest opinion on something, your expertise, they're lying and just what you to affirm their ideas. You don't, they get mad, and eventually they have to do a layoff or fire you, simply for disagreeing

Everyone likes to pretend it doesn't happen. But ask around and you'll find many people have experienced it

I haven’t been burned yet, but I’ll keep that in mind!

The situation you describe is one of the most maddening things about tailwind, and what leads to most of it being write only code, in my opinion

You've been able to keep the styles in the component well before tailwind turned the class attribute into ersatz inline styling. CSS-in-JS has been around for a decade, and there are myriad options for react. Vue and Svelte have them built in.

Fe devs who refuse to learn css and instead use tailwind have always struck me as incredibly odd. It's like a carpenter who refuses to use a hammer because they hit their thumb once as an apprentice

I wrote this piece on tailwind a few years back, and little seems to have changed https://pdx.su/blog/2023-07-26-tailwind-and-the-death-of-cra...

It’s interesting to me because CSS is very stable. It doesn’t really change that often. It’s great foundational knowledge to have for people who build for the web.

And nearly every step it's made has been for the better. I used sass on that blog, because a few corner case features weren't widely available when I last did work on the style, but for the last 3 projects I've worked on, I don't use it anymore. Pure css can do basically everything I needed before. Sure, I bundle using bun's bundler, but that's for performance optimization, nothing more

Not polarized since glasses, but I've start wearing specially made night driving glasses at night. They have a yellow tint, and so they strive to reduce glare. Doesn't solve the issue of some asshole in a Tesla who tunes his lights to be aimed as high as possible, but it helps

I've made a number of outdoor enclosures for electronics projects on my 3D printer. One of the killer features is that you can make vents that take curved paths through the walls of an enclosure. This, when done properly, can prevent most water ingress flawlessly, but allow a surprisingly large amount of airflow

You can even print rather large terrain pieces that use a smattering of filament. Low percentage lightning until and 2 walls, and you can basically spit out blobs as big as your printer can handle without much waste

There are several robot cafes in major cities across the world

There are orders of magnitude more cafes where humans make and serve the coffee.

You said nobody. The presence of successful robotic coffee shops disproves that premise

I mean "nobody" in the statistical sense. The number of people going to robot cafes is a rounding error compared with real cafe attendance. The fact that there are robot cafes and everybody (statistically speaking) is still going to cafes, proves the point exactly.

Nah see you live in a SRO in Chinatown and get all your meals at the Catholic mission.

Yes I exactly did that! Moved into an SRO on the edge of Chinatown. It's a nice tiny apartment, I'm on the edge of a mecca of affordable grocery stores, and I'm two blocks from my part-time job that gives me free-time to self-fund my software hustle. But there are other options. What's wrong with living with good people in a room share?

Finding good people to live with is a miracle and not a permanent one. All it took is one good roommate to decide he didn't need to take his antipsychotics anymore for me to never want a roommate again.

So enjoy your situation while the good times roll, no shade, but people have their own reasons to never consider living in an SRO besides mere materialism.

Do you have a family or people you need to take care of? Life is more than sustaining your own existence.