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Here’s a pretty candid interview I did about how I do a shit job of taking care of myself and my wellbeing. But I’m working on it! Ever feel like you wish you had more time in the day? Guess […]

This is a pretty great guide to naming design tokens and follows pretty closely how we structure our tokens.

This is close to exactly what I’ve been wanting: a way to use web components like <product-card heading=”Product Name” price=”$30.00″></product-card>and have that card render as regular ol’ HTML. a new plugin for Eleventy that renders your Lit components as static HTML during […]

Pinball Map is a perfect example of the best qualities of the web. Crowd-sourced info on where to play pinball across the world.

This is really good and fun. Source: 136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling – Baldur Bjarnason

Here’s the Storybook team with a post that breaks down how different teams organize and structure their Storybooks. This kind of analysis is great and demonstrates how you can slice things in many useful ways depending on the needs and […]

Here’s a fun Twitter thread about how cheese, snails, Christianity, underwear, and eyeglasses all contributed to the rise of the modern book.

Here’s a break down how we build components with similar conventions across many different frameworks, written by my brother Ian (@frostyweather). All of these frameworks can have similar component structure, component user APIs, properties, state management, methods/functions, lifecycles, and more. […]

You can version a design system’s component library as a single package (e.g. Polaris v8.0), or you can version each component within the library as its own mini package (e.g. Atlaskit Badge v15.0.8) This post breaks down the pros and […]

If you get a chance to watch Get Back, do it. It’s absolutely incredible. It’s as close as anyone’s going to get to being a fly on the wall and witnessing The Beatles’ creative process. Here’s a taste: The Beatles […]

Here’s Jeremy Keith and the Clearleft crew with a new course for web.dev: Learn Responsive Design

This is a powerful and important read from Max Böck: He rightfully assesses the state of the landscape in its present form: This is the web as envisioned by late-stage capitalism: a giant freemium game where absolutely everyone and everything […]

I had the honor to be the first guest on Storybook‘s new Storytime show with the great Michael Chan (aka @chantastic). We talked about the history of atomic design and the rise of the modern JS landscape, how directly-consumable UI […]

This is a great read about the web3 landscape as well as a super thoughtful critique from someone who really knows what they’re talking about. I love this post because it’s not some analysis from an outsider, but rather from […]

We’re getting closer and closer and closer to being able to actually use container queries. I for one and so freaking excited. Source: A New Container Query Polyfill That Just Works | CSS-Tricks – CSS-Tricks

As a consultant who works in many client codebases, I love the Peacock VS Code extension because I can apply my clients’ brand colors to the editor UI. It really keeps my head screwed on straight since I’m often working […]

:has() looks really cool, and I can see this being really helpful for a design system’s more composable components. Source: The CSS :has() selector is way more than a “Parent Selector” – Bram.us

In brief, the six principal plays in the denialist playbook are: Doubt the Science Question Scientists’ Motives and Integrity Magnify Disagreements among Scientists and Cite Gadflies as Authorities Exaggerate Potential Harm Appeal to Personal Freedom Reject Whatever Would Repudiate A […]

This post is a fantastic breakdown of naming things in front-end code. Many of the specifics he outlines are things we adhere to in our own work, but ultimately any one of these conventions can be handled differently. With that […]

There’s no doubt about it: 2021 was unquestionably better than the nightmare that was 2020. Of course, we’re still in the midst of a global pandemic that continues to throw a wrench into any attempt at living a normal life, […]