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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by searls on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:29PM (#46531281)
This is madness. Some stories actually have good guys. I don't know Adam directly, but we have plenty of second degree connections. I've benefited immensely from his work, have never heard anyone say a single negative thing about him, and I genuinely believe he's done more to push the web forward with Tailwind than the larger players have done (certainly more than Facebook did with React and Google has done with Angular/AMP/etc).

Reflexively assuming that unanimous positive sentiment towards someone is itself an indication of a problem is exactly the reason people are writing posts as recently as (double checks) _yesterday_ titled "65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform" https://philippdubach.com/standalone/hn-sentiment/

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by refulgentis on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:21PM (#46533042)
No one said he isn’t a good guy. Just that it was weird to have 15 comments saying “ignore the haters you’re a good guy!”

The “madness” here was you replying as if I said he wasn’t.

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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by GlacierFox on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:38AM (#46539502)
I'll be sure to avoid you during a time of crisis...
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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by refulgentis on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:48PM (#46544052)
May I humbly suggest taking a breath or two? It is extremely taxing mentally to select strangers to tell you don’t trust them in an imaginary crisis. (Especially ones on a tech discussion board! Especially just because they noted there were no negative comments and only fawning ones! Especially when you think fawning feels fine in a crisis!)
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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by GlacierFox on Monday January 12, 2026 @07:16AM (#46587418)
May I pull you aside and suggest you take a few breaths yourself? If you're finding typing half a sentence on a keyboard taxing, perhaps consider getting some support.

This is put forward with all the humbleness.

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