Words that would otherwise be coming out of my mouth

I’m so incredibly excited to announce my exciting new podcast called Wake Up Excited! Can you tell I’m excited? I’d absolutely love it if you subscribe to the show and/or watch it on YouTube. A podcast about exuberance Wake Up […]

HAPPY 40th birthday to Melissa, the most amazing wife, mom, friend, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, polymath, arts therapist, musician, singer, pianist, drummer, guitarist, artist, metalsmith, painter, sculptor, caricature artist, childrens book illustrator, filmmaker, therapist, empath, teacher, meditator, seeker, helper, volunteer, […]

Ian sent me this clip Jamie Lee Curtis on the Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert. It is phenomenal. I adore her. I resonate with so much with what she describes here. I too am an artist. I too have struggled […]

I’m obsessed with this song by EMEFE; the build, the motif, and how it ultimately locks in is absolutely incredible. I’m diving into more of their music, but this is amazing.

I’ve been putting my younger brother Ian to work for his entire life. See Exhibit A: Why yes, that is my crawling baby brother hitched with a string to a wagon I made out of Waffle Blocks. Fast forward to […]

Vibe code is legacy code. There’s some great stuff in this article When you vibe code, you are incurring tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out. Which is why vibe coding is perfect for prototypes and throwaway projects: […]

Dave’s right: always buy the $200 Yamaha. A $200 Epiphone will also suffice. This lesson I’ve learned — and apparently Chris has also learned — is that for some things spending a crap-ton more money doesn’t translate to a crap-ton more […]

We are bigger than the boxes created by society and our own limiting thinking.

Making accessibility standards easy to understand, one success criterion at a time. WCAG in Plain English is fantastic. It breaks down each WCAG standard and goes into details with beautiful headlines like: What is it? Why does it matter? Who […]

TL;DR: You can preorder my new Atomic Design Certification Course for only $50! Why create an Atomic Design Certification Course? I’ve got big ambitious for this course, and I’m aiming to: Increase design system adoption For years, people (me included!) […]

I had the biggest honor to review and write the foreword for the 5th edition of Jennifer Robbins’ book, Learning Web Design. The foreword itself explains why it’s such a huge honor, so here it is: It was a warm […]

Great source of inspiration for punchy headlines: Website Headlines (dotcom) I find myself in the position of needing to write headlines, and almost never love anything LLMs come up with. This feels like great inspiration.

I like Chris waxing on design tokens and am glad our Shop Talk Show appearance gave some food for thought. While not every organization is wrestling with a Multi-All-The-Things situation, every website and app can benefit from even a lightweight […]

This feels like a trajectory worth striving for.

I had a great conversation with Jason Lengstorf on his Learn With Jason show. We talked about design tokens, the importance of design system recipes, our new course, and the need for healthier/more human/more collaborative workflows.

In our new comprehensive online course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens, we discuss the need to revisit the powerful concept of separation of concerns. Separation of concerns is a computer science principle introduced in the mid 1970s that […]

Well, here’s some great news: Refresh PGH is being…refreshed! My pals Jason, Val, and Patrick are reviving the Pittsburgh web design/development meetup that played such an important role in the development of my career. It’s so crucial to rebuild in-person […]

Note: This post is adapted from our new online course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens. Our comprehensive course delivers over 13 hours of video, enterprise-grade token architecture for both Figma & code, hundreds of resources, a certificate of […]

Note: we’ve lined someone up, which means submissions for the apprenticeship are now closed. But please keep your eyes peeled for future opportunities. Ian and I have a ton of fun projects brewing, so we’re looking for a creative, passionate, […]

I appeared on the UNIQUEWAYS podcast with Thomas Girard, an interesting show where the guests are all asked the same set of questions. It was fun!