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A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO

The day was nearing to a close. The sun has already set, but that Friday evening in Amsterdam was still warm. Unusually warm, in fact, for those late days in March – as if spring decided to bless my piligrimage, for that piligrimage was not jovial. I was sitting at a ramen joint, sipping on the broth. To my left, a blue, crinkled supermarket shopping bag was sitting solemnly, inconspicuously. Inside that bag sat a slightly used Mac Studio, which I have just purchased to be able to edit CSS of my own application. By the time that evening descended upon the south of Amsterdam, I have lost 3 days of my life trying to figure out why I was unable to edit CSS. But let me rewind a bit.

To add insult to injury, one of my respected colleagues finally got enough of my lamentations (“why does it have to be so hard”) and – rightfully – told me, that if we are all working on a system which uses a certain piece of technology – I better get in line and learn it properly. Because - as it turns out - Tailwind 4, while still being “zeroconfig” - which I wholly support (frontend tools have been absolutely egregious and inconsiderate with introducing configurations left, right and center) - is not so when you want to use an amalgamated version of it. I immediately download it, set the path for the tailwindcss-rails gem, and prepare to revel in my reacquired ability of specifying CSS borders - which, for reasons of Amazing Design Technological Advancement, somehow had to be taken away by progress.

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