Words that would otherwise be coming out of my mouth
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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 […]
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07 Jan, 2025
Stimulation Clicker
Stimulation Clicker by Neal Agarwal is incredible commentary. I feel like it’s spiritually related to Death To Bullshit.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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05 Dec, 2024
My Sketch – OpenProcessing
Beautiful.
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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. […]
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30 Nov, 2024
kirby vs. this blog post
kirby vs. this blog post is an incredible piece of web design. Well done.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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11 Nov, 2024
Museum of Modern Fart
Museum of Modern Fart. This is what the internet was always for.
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10 Nov, 2024
In this house…
I made this sign to try to capture how I’m feeling about everything right now.
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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28 Oct, 2024
Mundango
Mundango is a simple game by Dave Rupert about noticing the small things in life. More of this please.
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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 […]