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This letter laying out concerns about AMP seems pretty reasonable to me.

Reading this post by Trent about the importance of third-party scripts, and I’m reminded of an older post of mine about how component libraries can be used to help surface invisible elements like third-party scripts. The idea is that someone […]

In classic Vitaly fashion, here’s a gigantic article that includes a ton of tools and tips for all things frontend performance. They even included my performance budget builder, which I forgot I made!

I absolutely love Chris’s sentiment here. It’s easy to get into a heated discussion about frameworks, what type of class names make the most sense, which optimization techniques are most important, or what part of your code base is should […]

I have the extreme privilege of working with Jamie on client projects, and I absolutely love his approach to development. Rather than deliberating over lengthy conversations about what can and can’t be done, Jamie dives in, plays, and prototypes. As […]

This is a fantastic, critical take on design systems by Rune Madsen. I found myself violently nodding along with a lot of the critical points made in the presentation, especially around tooling: I find it really fascinating when I see […]

I had a great time chatting about design systems with Aarron Walter, Jina Anne, and Marco Suarez. We covered a lot of ground, from what exactly is a design system, how they help, interface inventories, design tokens, making patterns a […]

I absolutely love love love this presentation by Yesenia Perez-Cruz (@yeseniaa)‏. In it, she talks about creating a design system to power Vox Products’ suite of websites, each of which that have their own strong, individual personalities. Yesenia’s talk is especially […]

Design system + machine learning = instantly going from whiteboard sketch to working code. Fucking incredible. In my talks and workshops I discuss how the existence of living components in a design system means that teams can leap-frog over a […]

Adam McClean and Dan Mall had a fantastic chat with Jared Spool about the work we did to help transform About.com into the new Dotdash. We took their monolithic brand and exploded it into a suite of topic-specific brands, with […]

The title says it all. Great description of why docs are so important, why it’s hard to make them, and some tips for prioritizing them.

There are some fantastic insights contained in Mina Markham’s post about their rebuilding Slack.com. I especially loved her describing some of the thorny aspects of enhancing to CSS Grid layout, as well as seeing a before-and-after histogram of CSS specificity. […]

This phenomenal post by Sarah Federman dives into the language we use to define design systems. I personally think this is the best description of the lexicon of design systems I’ve encountered. I’ve always been a bit wary of only […]

I love this post/talk by Chris. His upbringing mirrors mine quite a bit even if things are time-shifted a bit. The things that really resonated with me: Encouragement by people in your life Collaboration over competition Playing music having a […]

Absolutely fantastic insights from Maya Benari about building a design system meant to serve over 30,000 U.S federal websites. What an incredible feat!

Fantastic deep dive into writing accessible tabs & accordions from Heydon Pickering. This is something I’ve always struggled with, so this detailed post certainly helps.

This is a great post from Mandy Michael, and touches on some of the things I talked about in my post about full-stack developers. What I am very concerned about is that many still don’t see value in being skilled […]

I wrote about Facebook’s aggressive tactics, and Steve Portigal responded with a recommendation for FBPurity. F.B. Purity is a browser extension / add-on that lets you clean up and customise Facebook. It filters out the junk you don’t want to […]

I have a toilet in my basement. Not a bathroom, just a toilet sitting in my corner. Lots of other Pittsburghers have Pittsburgh potties as well. In the steel industry’s heyday, workers would come home filthy from the mills, wash […]

This is a great post that lays out the nuts and bolts of the design system used to build Healthcare.gov. It details a lot of architecture and tooling, and I’m super happy to hear they took inspiration from my post […]