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Life Word of the Year: Power
As work has slowed down going into the holiday season, it has given me a chance to reflect on the past year. Despite being very[…]
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Web Design/Development Finding Common Patterns Across Frameworks
“I really like React, but I’m stuck writing code in Angular.” “I know Vue really well, but I’ve been hearing about web components a lot[…]
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Web Design/Development 1 Design System. 1 Stylesheet. Less than 18 hours. 3 Frameworks. React vs. Angular vs. Vue.
Us: “What are you using to build your site?”Client: “React.”Us: “Why are you using React?”Client: “…because it is the hot thing.” This is something that[…]
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Life 2020: A Year To Learn From and Grow
On Christmas Eve, I sat down with my wife, Meghan, to join a Zoom call with extended family. We normally see these faces on the[…]
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Life The Year of “I Don’t Know”
“Today is my birthday…and…I’m getting drunker.” – Darrell Hammond, A&E Biography of Tiger Woods on SNL On this day last year, I was sitting at[…]
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Life 9 Months of Hell
The past 9 months of my life have been hell. I’m not talking about the “oh this thing is bad for a second” kind of[…]
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Web Design/Development Linking InVision’s DSM with React
Two of the hottest things in web design and design systems: React and InVision’s Design System Manager (DSM). Separately these are cool, but what if[…]
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Web Design/Development Why Being Too Polite in Web Design Is a Bad Thing…
“You’re too polite.” These are words that were said to me the other day about my work by my frequent collaborator and brilliant designer, Dan[…]
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Web Design/Development Introducing Style Guide Guide, Gatsby Edition!
Brad Frost and I are happy to introduce to the world a new React-based Style Guide Guide, Gatsby Edition! Brad and I built the design system reference site boilerplate Style[…]
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Life 30 Years of Living, 30 Items of Lessons Learned
30 things I have learned in the exactly 30 years I have lived: Good family and friends makes a big difference Laugh every goddamn day[…]