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Longer pieces on design, development, and the practice of building for the web.

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What Senior Actually Means

Seniority isn't a measure of how much you know. It's a measure of how well you know what you don't know — and how systematically you close those gaps before they become incidents.

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The Case for Boring Technology

Every year, the same conversation: should we use the shiny new thing? Five years in, I've learned to love the boring choice — not out of cowardice, but out of respect for the people who will maintain this code after I'm gone.

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Design Systems Are Grammar, Not Paint

A design system isn't a component library. It's the grammar of a visual language — and like any grammar, it only becomes interesting once people start bending the rules.

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On Typography, and the Trust It Quietly Asks For

Typography is the quietest form of persuasion. Before a reader has parsed a single word, they've already decided how much to trust the sentence that follows.

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