| Silvermine AI
Tailwind Is Dead; Long Live Tailwind
- Adam Wathan publicly shared his burnout maintaining Tailwind CSS, prompting an outpouring of community support that may have saved both the project and the person
- Open source sustainability isn't solved by GitHub stars or npm downloads—it requires direct financial and emotional support from the companies that profit from free infrastructure
- The 'long live Tailwind' moment demonstrates that mature open source projects can transcend their creators when communities recognize their debt to maintainers