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Adam's Morning Walk
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Adam's Morning Walk is a personal blog at adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm about programming and business. Since 2025, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “We had six months left [audio]”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Podcast episodes by Adam, a Tailwind CSS creator, discussing the company's layoffs and team size. HN commenters cited the episode for the details behind the 75% engineering cut.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Just me talking about whatever I'm working on or wrestling with, usually by myself, usually while I'm walking the dog.
Most-linked posts?
- We had six months left [audio]11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2026-01-07
What Hacker News says?
Adam goes into depth on this in an episode of his podcast: https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six...
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on “Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team”Submitted We had six months left [audio] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI listened to his podcast this morning where he mentions 75% of their four person engineering team was laid off (only the founders and one engineer remain) https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six...
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on “Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team”Submitted The Tailwind Business Ain't What It Used to Be as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhen I saw this on HN, I instantly felt terrible for Adam & the team. Happy to see that these comments are mostly supportive, they could have easily piled on the pain. Listen to his podcast episode if you want his raw feelings on this - https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six... Very happy Tailwind Plus and Insiders customer here.
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on “Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team”Submitted Tailwind Labs loses 80% of revenue and 75% of engineering due to AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMore details: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/1467... https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2008909129591443925 https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six...
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on “Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team”Submitted Adam's Morning Walk: We had six months left as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLet's say you're paying your devs $100k / year. All in costs on those devs are probably $150k or so. That means your $1m / year will fund 6 full time developers with a little left over. This podcast from the CEO[1] says their engineering team was 4 people and the remaining staff is the 3 owners, the 1 remaining engineer, and one part time customer support person. So assuming every full time person was costing $150k…
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on “Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS”Submitted We had six months left as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've seen wildly different takes assuming how many people worked at Tailwind and what they did because "3/4 of the engineering team" is confusing without more context, so I decided to go through the podcast episode about it https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six... and see what the full picture really was. Remaining: - Adam (cofounder/owner/original author of tailwind) - Jonathan (cofounder/own…
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on “Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS”Not necessarily. We don't know what all their costs are, but it's a lot more than just salaries. I'm sure there was a lot of uncertainty in how long those sponsorships would last. There are any number of factors. Adam also stated in a podcast [0] that he laid people of now in order to ensure they he could give them generous severance packages. I'm sure people will have thoughts on that but whatever, I think that mak…
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on “Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS”Hopefully! Turns out 75% was of four total developers. Ideally Google would be giving them enough to re-hire three people. Source: https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six...
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on “Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS”