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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. Now thanks to LLMs prefering to use Tailwind to style a page rather than traditional stylesheets, the same "look and feel" has become an indicator of a slop product.

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AI and The Redmonk rankings

Every year I look forward to seeing the Redmonk language rankings. They are the only language rankings I pay any attention too, cough Tiobe. In recent years there has been very little movement in their top 20. It features all the usual candidates. Java, Javascript, Python, C# etc... the languages you may possibly get a job in. My interest lies in the outliers, seeing random languages fly up the chart, often to fizzle out.

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Ignore what everyone else is doing

I check Hacker News and Lobsters all the time. It's sort of like an addiction, or maybe just a bad habit. It started about three years ago when I would post blog links on the two platforms. Which Lobsters banned me for. Apparently self promotion is wrong. Well I have no friends or colleagues to post for me, so it's self promotion or no promotion. Anyway, there was a time when I would occasionally find a gem from a dev blog on those sites. This fuelled the dopamine hit and got me coming back for more. Over time I found increasingly less content that was in anyway useful or insightful.

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