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I'm stoked to share my next role:

Design Engineer at Shopify;
alongside Jason Miller to hack on next-gen admin UI/UX and a new Polaris.

I'm also workin to rejoin the CSSWG via Shopify too 🙂

Thanks for all y'all's support! 💀🤘🏻

Twitter comments, likes and reposts are now integrated.

Over the past couple of years I’ve noticed that 90% of my design feedback comes down to these three things:

1. Ditch those words!
2. Ditch those words!
3. Ditch those words!

It’s the fastest way to make a design more easily understood because almost every interface tries to explain too much at…

Ep #209
Is Cracker Barrel a JS Framework?

Robbie and I talk about JavaScript trends, from the overuse of hooks to frameworks chasing sameness, and why Cracker Barrel’s rebrand feels like a frontend metaphor.

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Whether I'm giving a talk or on a podcast, these two things constantly pop up:

• how do I find what to study to keep up?
• what's new in CSS?

If you've wondered those things before, then this list is for you.

Find something you've never heard of, click the link;…

There are books and then there are books. The kind where you can’t put down until they’re finished with you. The kind that captures every atom of your attention and changes something deep down. You walk away altered, the words having not really been words or sentences but something…

I'm happy to share that gradient.style is out of beta and:

• has been Open Sourced
• finally supports multiple background layers

Open to feedback and comments 🙂

Found these pics in a drawer and thought it'd be fun to share the journey of creating a CSS spec compliant gradient generator in 2023.

gradient.style
A CSS5 HDR color enabling gradient tool

Can even visualize effects using shorthands and DX tricks.

Gradients and Their Lines #

Here's a…

Ep #151
DevTools FM

Join Andrew, Justin and I for a chat about some of the developer tools I've worked on.

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It often feels like optimism is an act of revenge, an act of spite or rebellion, because optimism requires diligence and effort whilst pessimism feels like the default, the thing requiring no energy or effort. Mike Monteiro wrote along similar lines in How to stay hopeful:

The problem with…