TailwindCSS is the first UI framework that really clicked for me with more than good enough defaults. It enabled me to quickly prototype a UI someone with actual design skill can refine. And thanks to its widespread use LLMs are fairly well versed in it as well. But looking past the convenience I now believe using Tailwind is not worth the risk.
Let me be on the record that I hate working on a CI pipeline. It brings me back to a time when we made a single line change and waited ten minutes for C++ templates to compile. I really did not enjoy that. This will serve as documentation so I never have to figure this out again.
It has been 13 years since I removed a comment functionality from this blog. I have to admit I do not regret it. The amount of low quality, borderline spam comments was comparable to a YouTube comment section under a slightly controversial video with someone claiming ArchLinux is not the best distribution ever. But there is an email address below each post and an invitation to email me. It might not be as prominent as it should be, but let me tell you, the comments I get are well thought out, valuable to read and often a starting point for a nice conversation.
One thing I wanted to add to this blog for a long time was full text search. Content is steadily increasing and sometimes I have a hard time finding the exact right post to link to when writing a new post. My wife was also complaining that she could never find the post about backups for artists when she wanted to link it. So what a better way to spend a few hours of my vacation than to add full text search functionality.
I have been blogging for a very long time, in a few years it will be three decades. I registered my first domain in the late 90s. Back then it was meant to become a knowledge base for WiFi. It might be hard to imagine for some of you, but back then getting a wireless network setup that covered more than a single room was not that simple, nor available except in the most nerdy homes. Somehow it slowly turned into a blog. A bit later I added a second one talking about work. One day I decided to write a static site generator, left fintech and started a blog in English.