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  1. 09 Jan, 2025

    Design Tokens Course Update: 2hrs of video now available!

    In addition to stuffing our faces with cookies, Ian and I were hard at work over the holidays creating our design tokens course. I’m freaking thrilled that we published 2 hours of preorder-exclusive video content, shared several dozen links, and included […]

  2. 07 Jan, 2025

    Stimulation Clicker

    Stimulation Clicker by Neal Agarwal is incredible commentary. I feel like it’s spiritually related to Death To Bullshit.  

  3. 05 Jan, 2025

    Frostapalooza: one epic night

    Frostapalooza was a one-of-a-kind concert and an unabashed celebration of love, joy, fun, music, creativity, and positivity. It was an excuse to celebrate our talents and collective human potential. It was a reminder to myself, my friends, my family, and […]

  4. 23 Dec, 2024

    Introducing Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens

    BIG NEWS! We’re hard at work making an online course called Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens. Over the past decade, Ian Frost and I have created design token systems for dozens of organizations — including some of the […]

  5. 05 Dec, 2024

    React v19 – React

    React v19 was just released with support for Web Components! React 19 adds full support for custom elements and passes all tests on Custom Elements Everywhere. In past versions, using Custom Elements in React has been difficult because React treated […]

  6. 05 Dec, 2024

    My Sketch – OpenProcessing

    Beautiful.

  7. 01 Dec, 2024

    Come to Pittsburgh Plays The Cure!

    FRIENDS! FAMILY! COUNTRYMEN! On Saturday, December 14th I’ll be performing as part of Pittsburgh Plays The Cure at the beautiful Roxian Theatre. Several super groups comprised of Pittsburgh-based musicians will be playing a whole night of music by The Cure. […]

  8. 30 Nov, 2024

    kirby vs. this blog post

    kirby vs. this blog post is an incredible piece of web design. Well done.

  9. 27 Nov, 2024

    Ella’s First Website

    ULTRA PROUD DAD MOMENT: Ella made her first website! Melissa and I woke up on Saturday morning to our goofy 6-year-old daughter entering our bedroom making this obnoxious sound. It was impressively annoying, especially considering she hasn’t seen Dumb and […]

  10. 26 Nov, 2024

    My ADHD diagnosis process

    I recently shared that I was diagnosed with ADHD. I write these words 12 days into medication and holy shit I feel totally transformed. The stuck, scrambly feelings and frustration have nearly evaporated. I am firing on all cylinders, which […]

  11. 15 Nov, 2024

    ADHD

    I woke up this morning, took a pill, and proceeded to have one of the most productive writing days I’ve had in perhaps years. The day prior, a doctor diagnosed me with ADHD. I finally drew the unfortunate trauma diagram […]

  12. 15 Nov, 2024

    Design Systems Q&A

    I recently had the pleasure of doing a Q&A session with Molly Helmuth’s Design System Bootcamp cohort. The questions were great and varied, so I asked Molly if she’d be alright if I shared my answers with you all. Thankfully, […]

  13. 12 Nov, 2024

    An app can be a home-cooked meal

    I am the program­ming equiv­a­lent of a home cook. The exhor­ta­tion “learn to code” has its foun­da­tions in market value. “Learn to code” is suggested as a way up, a way out. “Learn to code” offers economic leverage, profes­sional transformation. “Learn to […]

  14. 11 Nov, 2024

    Museum of Modern Fart

    Museum of Modern Fart. This is what the internet was always for.

  15. 10 Nov, 2024

    In this house…

    I made this sign to try to capture how I’m feeling about everything right now.

  16. 08 Nov, 2024

    Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free

    The great and kind Tim Brown has made his Flexible Typesetting A Book Apart book available for free.

  17. 07 Nov, 2024

    Goodbye, Twitter.

    Here’s how you can find and follow me: It’s difficult to express just how important and meaningful Twitter was to my life and career. I’m sad to leave it behind, but I have to now. It was always fun when […]

  18. 28 Oct, 2024

    Web Component continued progress

    At Big Medium, we’re fans of Web Components, and over the last 6 years have been helping our clients build standards-based, interoperable, design systems with them. The ability to deliver a consistent, cohesive experience to a any web-based technology perfectly […]

  19. 28 Oct, 2024

    Mundango

    Mundango is a simple game by Dave Rupert about noticing the small things in life. More of this please.

  20. 18 Oct, 2024

    Frostapalooza: Reflecting Two Months Later – Ian Frost Weather

    Here’s Ian’s recap of Frostapalooza. Folks didn’t just show up, but everyone was so kind and encouraging. It was never about them, it was about the show and how we could make it as fantastic as possible. The guitarists were […]