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Training your design senses is rigorous work, no different from training as a boxer or musician.

"Make it work" is the first 90% of the work. "Make it good" is the other 90%.

What's important to understand about this model is that either of these in isolation would objectively be a small mistake, and caught by the other slices.

Thanks to subgrid, we can nest a grid on the inner items. That means we can have two children positioned at the start and end of the shared grid.

Under partial failure, retry loops can rearrange history. If order, duplication, or staleness matters, retry needs state.

He screenshares dozens of unused concepts, novel art directions, brand identities, and everything in between.

You can write the cleanest AGENTS.md on the internet and still have no idea whether the component that shipped this morning came from your library, or got hand-rolled as a div with a hardcoded blue.

The real work is authoring the system loop. Writing the specifications that constrain how AI behaves. Encoding the quality standards that define what good output looks like. Making the judgment calls that no loop below the oversight layer can make on its own.

While the performance benefits of bundling absolutely outweigh any negatives, if you have a small amount of JavaScript files, not bundling is perfectly viable.

CSS properties come in two excellent flavors – longhand properties have a direct impact on the element, while shorthand properties take a much more convoluted path.

You cannot build an automatic grader for aesthetic taste, creativity, novelty, etc. because there is no correct answer to grade against.

Speeding up human processes is the least interesting things we can do with the power of AI.

The thing that stays durable and ungradeable is not getting better at solving problems that already have a known answer; it's choosing what to build and judging whether it's any good.

OKHST keeps OKHSL's hue and saturation and replaces lightness with that tone axis.

When you optimize a creative process for raw speed, you don't get better products. You get the same products, just sloppier, sooner and shortsighted.

Federating demands more overhead and operational diligence than any centralised team would, leaving chaos in their wake when federated eventually comes back around to centralisation.

While making becomes cheaper and perhaps deciding does too, accountability does not.

I don't think that there is a system without guidelines. Guidelines force us to take a concept and systematize it and figure out what the tokens are and what the naming structure is and how we actually think about it and talk about it.

A free, open-source color-identification system. Simple, memorable symbols map to base and combined colors so anyone can tell them apart.

No design system team can solve every problem at once, and any effort to do so will only dilute its impact.

Creative provenance is emerging in response to the growing presence of AI in how things are created.

Compound icons are effective at getting more specific. What are we adding? A phone, a folder, a user, a location.

See the element, learn its real name, and prompt your coding agent with precision.

Experienced people don't merely get better final output. They get more useful work from each prompt.

The real work of learning happens when you get into the messy part of the thing you're trying to learn.