My first deep dive into creating open source projects

Have you ever had that feeling of building something from scratch? The temptation of proving yourself that you are a software developer and that you should use your own packages instead of relying on other's works? Well a week ago I had that feeling, CSS! How hard could it be to make a bunch of styles for common elements, right? So I was using this awesome project called skeleton, an adaptive design system powered by tailwind, and I really liked the foundation it gave me but didn't really use most of their provided components. And for that reason as well as the urge to build my own tool, I decided to make stratum! This is by all means not to advertise my package, I assure you after this experience I do not want to maintain it outside of my own issues and feature requests

Apr 27, 2025 - 03:36

My first deep dive into creating open source projects

Have you ever had that feeling of building something from scratch? The temptation of proving yourself that you are a software developer and that you should use your own packages instead of relying on other's works?

Well a week ago I had that feeling, CSS! How hard could it be to make a bunch of styles for common elements, right?

So I was using this awesome project called skeleton, an adaptive design system powered by tailwind, and I really liked the foundation it gave me but didn't really use most of their provided components. And for that reason as well as the urge to build my own tool, I decided to make stratum!

This is by all means not to advertise my package, I assure you after this experience I do not want to maintain it outside of my own issues and feature requests