Eight ways to open an article, and the one that keeps winning
A typed hero system with eight arrangements, and what eighteen real choices revealed about which composition actually survives contact with a screenshot.
Posts about Design Systems
The design doc was wrong about its own colours
A colophon that reads its own tokens instead of describing them — because the prose version had been describing a palette the code abandoned.
I wired Figma to the code. Then we left Figma.
Code is the source of truth and the canvas is a synced view. Figma Connect proved it. Then the canvas stopped being worth the maintenance.
Fifteen prompts, five criteria: what a typed registry actually changed
I couldn't run this on the registry I built at work. So I rebuilt the pattern on a component set I still have, ran 90 generations, and scored them.
Snowplow: one contract that people and coding agents build from
I embedded with Snowplow's teams, audited three drifting surfaces, and deployed one contract people and coding agents build from. They now run it without me.
One Wrapper Class Instead of Twelve Prose Modifiers
Swapped Tailwind Typography for shadcn/typeset across every long-form surface — twelve prose modifiers on four routes became one wrapper class.
A closed world agents can't hallucinate out of
The typed registry that stopped our coding agents inventing components — and the parallel package I killed in order to ship it.
Building a portfolio design system with Subframe and Claude Code
How I integrated a production design system into my live portfolio as a solo design engineer — without breaking the typography I already loved.
Swirl Networks — the in-store platform that got acquired by Best Buy
Hired into marketing, I ended up leading product design — and shipped the in-store media platform Swirl was acquired by Best Buy for.
