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I often run into two very different types of coders in my travels as a front end consultant. Over-abstracted. Everything that could possibly be reused or repeated at some point in the future is pulled out into its own small, single-purpose JS ...

JID, one of my all-time favorite rappers, finally released his new album on Friday, and it's a masterpiece of art. It covers a wide range of topics, from broad social issues to deeply introspective personal explorations. The music spans from club ...

I love the entire Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers, but book four, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, is my favorite. The book finds four travelers from very different backgrounds and cultures stuck together at a small "hotel" (as they exist in the ...

This morning, I watched this short video on how Mr. Rogers would always leave his mistakes in his videos. If he fumbled while tying his shoes or couldn't get the zipper to catch quite right, he'd leave it in the clip. You'd get to watch him struggle ...

Last week, I mentioned how I want the web to be weird again: more personal sites, more eclectic online experiences, and more authenticity in what and how people share. I got a lot of emails and comments in my membership Discord about wanting to start ...

I've been obsessing over how Kelp implements the element disclosure pattern for the last week or so. This component is particularly tricky because of the many ways it's styled in projects: Browser-default styles A unicode icon with the CSS content .. ...

One fun little ADHD superpower is the ability to notice patterns and predict their logical conclusions earlier and more frequently than neurotypical folks. In my life as a web developer, it's made me particularly good at building systems to make ...

Today, I want to talk about how to build frontend systems--design systems, UI libraries, and so on--that can be easily extended for use cases and situations you didn't plan for. Let's dig in! tl;dr: Lots of "hooks" in the form of CSS variables, ...

Related to my article yesterday on my love of mundane sci-fi, I am absolutely smitten with Mundango, a free daily app from Dave Rupert. In Dave's own words Mundago is a game about enjoying the small things in life. Each day you get a brand new board ...

I'm a big fan of science-fiction. The scope. The scale. The possibilities of the future. For years, I enjoyed sci-fi that had a dystopian angle to it. Shows and books like Altered Carbon and The Expanse and West World provided cautionary tales for .. ...