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I came to code the long way round

Sound first, then film, then code. How I came to building for the web the long way round, and why all of it now lives in one place.

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Jun 2026Opinion

Is Tailwind the best way to write styles, now the AI reads everything?

An assistant types most of the class names now, so the cost that's left is reading them, the model included. I measured the same button styled four ways, Tailwind, CSS Modules, CSS-in-JS and shadcn, and laid out where each one fits. There's no single winner, but the numbers make the trade-offs concrete.

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