diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 87457a8..44f966e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ Code contributions are welcome! We use the GitHub PR process to review and merge
 
 #### Tailwind
 
-Bugsink uses tailwind for styling.
+Bugsink uses tailwind for styling, and [django-tailwind](https://github.com/timonweb/django-tailwind/)
+to "do tailwind stuff from the Django world".
 
 If you're working on HTML, you should probably develop while running the following somewhere:
 
diff --git a/bugsink/settings/development.py b/bugsink/settings/development.py
index b6b23dc..5e79221 100644
--- a/bugsink/settings/development.py
+++ b/bugsink/settings/development.py
@@ -167,3 +167,6 @@ LOGGING["loggers"]["snappea"]["level"] = "DEBUG"
 LOGGING["formatters"]["snappea"]["format"] = "{asctime} - {threadName} - {levelname:7} - {message}"
 
 ALLOWED_HOSTS = deduce_allowed_hosts(BUGSINK["BASE_URL"])
+
+# django-tailwind setting; the below allows for environment-variable overriding of the npm binary path.
+NPM_BIN_PATH = os.getenv("NPM_BIN_PATH", "npm")