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David Sancho
Personal blog · sancho.dev/blogprogrammingweb
David Sancho's personal blog at sancho.dev covers programming and web. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Don't use Tailwind for your Design System”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
David Sancho's posts on CSS and Tailwind, mainly arguing against using Tailwind for design systems. Commenters link them as the stronger case against Tailwind for design systems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
David Sancho writes about Software engineering: OCaml, Melange, Reason, React infrastructure and Open Source
Most-linked posts?
- Don't use Tailwind for your Design System2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-06
What Hacker News says?
Look, I don't like Tailwind as much as author but I think author make several weak points about tailwind weakness (apart from the hard to read part). Here is the better argument about why you should not use tailwind: https://sancho.dev/blog/tailwind-and-design-systems/
Comment linking /blog/tailwind-and-design-systems/
on “Why I don't like Tailwind CSS”Submitted Query-JSON: A story of cross-compilation with Reason as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDon't use tailwind for your design system(that is a very bad choice). You can find all the argument here https://sancho.dev/blog/tailwind-and-design-systems/ What I find work for me is using tailwind in addition to css modules. All the utility class with css scoping
Comment linking /blog/tailwind-and-design-systems/
on “Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS”Submitted Learning OCaml in 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't use Tailwind for your Design System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Server-side rendering React in OCaml as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't use Tailwind for your Design System as a story · 1 points
HN discussion