Beyond Tailwind: Structuring Modern Vanilla CSS
The author is moving from Tailwind to vanilla CSS to leverage modern web standards and gain more creative control over their site's architecture.
Cascading Style Sheets — the styling language of the web, including layout systems, selectors, color functions, animations, and the evolution of CSS specifications.
The author is moving from Tailwind to vanilla CSS to leverage modern web standards and gain more creative control over their site's architecture.
Creating complex retro text outlines by stacking CSS elements with varying stroke widths, despite performance limitations.

Native CSS now provides clean, performant replacements for the complex hacks, JavaScript libraries, and preprocessors that were once essential for web development.

Native masonry arrives in CSS: Grid Lanes uses standard Grid syntax to pack items into flexible lanes, with automatic orientation and tunable placement sensitivity.

Modern CSS is powerful enough to build complex, maintainable apps without Tailwind or preprocessors—keep it simple and semantic.

A deliberately inaccessible “Drunk” CSS mode is an empathy nudge—not a substitute—for real accessibility testing with disabled users.

A classless site using custom tags and attributes delivers lean, accessible CSS—but demands more thoughtful authorship and isn’t universally practical.

Use physics-driven SVG displacement maps and a rim-light overlay to approximate Apple’s Liquid Glass in Chrome as a backdrop-filter.