Kevin Geary

Most Tailwind debates pit Tailwind’s utility-first approach against outdated CSS workflows—comparing today’s tool against yesterday’s problems. The result? A rigged comparison that naturally favors Tailwind. But here’s what’s missing from that debate: the development environment has changed and so has CSS. Modern visual development tools and proper CSS methodologies have evolved far beyond the monolithic […]

Apple released the first smart phone in 2007 and its widespread adoption over the next two years indirectly kickstarted the first era of responsive web development. In 2009, media queries were introduced to the CSS spec in response to the demand for better mobile browsing experiences. They served as the primary workflow from 2009 to […]

I recently published a detailed article on the difference between media queries and container queries. I used that article to make the case for a container-query-first workflow, but I also listed two “gotchas” of container queries that make them slightly annoying. By far, the biggest “gotcha” is the fact that container queries need their direct […]