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Adam Wathan

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Adam Wathan

@adamwathan

Markdown engineer. Creator of @tailwindcss. Listener of Slayer. Austin 3:16.

Joined July 2012

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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Jul 4, 2025
Finally launched a sponsorship program for Tailwind CSS, with a bunch of cool perks ✨ 💬 Private Discord community to connect with the team 🤖 Cursor/Claude rules for generating better Tailwind output 🎨 Beautiful custom VS Code themes 🔍 Raycast extension with lots of little
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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Feb 12, 2025
Mounted my MacBook Pro under my desk this afternoon, can recommend 👍🏻
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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Aug 7, 2025
I'd like to formally apologize for making every button in Tailwind UI `bg-indigo-500` five years ago, leading to every AI generated UI on earth also being indigo.
Kevin Kern
@kevinkern
Aug 7, 2025
So, GPT-5 hasn’t solved the "purple problem"
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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Aug 29, 2025
Been waiting for this for a long time!
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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Jul 14, 2025
Product idea: Notion except every keystroke doesn't feel like I'm SSH'd into a server on Mars.
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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Jan 23, 2025
✨ Tailwind CSS v4.0 is here! Huge performance improvements, radically simplified setup experience, CSS-first configuration, modernized P3 color palette, container queries, 3D transforms, expanded gradient APIs, @starting-style support… …and tons, tons more.
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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Apr 14, 2025
It's 2014. You're writing code in Sublime Text, managing projects in Trello, and building UIs with Bootstrap 3. You don't know it yet, but this is as good as things will ever get, and it's only downhill from here.
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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Feb 22, 2025
Got the office painted and put up some slat wall panels — lots more decorating to do but it’s a start 🙌
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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Sep 1, 2025
Like it or not, typing speed is a reasonable proxy for IQ.
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Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Sep 4, 2025
Are there any other open source apps we could fork and move the tabs to the side then sell for $610m? 🤔
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