SHOPIFY ACQUIRES TAILWIND

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Shopify is acquiring Tailwind Labs, bringing the team behind Tailwind CSS, installed more than 110 million times a week by firms like OpenAI and Cloudflare, in-house. The framework stays open source and MIT-licensed, with Tailwind's creator Adam Wathan citing a stable long-term home for millions of dependent developers as the goal. The deal follows layoffs of three of four engineers in January after revenue fell 80%, and leaves Tailwind Labs closing sign-ups for commercial products like Tailwind Plus.