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  • What’s next for shipping code, now the design handoff wall has been breached?→

    Like the Greeks besieging Troy, designers have snuck into GitHub and GitLab. Armed with AI coding tools, they can now open substantial pull requests, ship design improvements and fix the bugs that nev…

    13 Aug 2026
  • CSS Grid vs. Flexbox: When to Use Which→

    If you’re like a lot of designers who write CSS, Flexbox is probably your default. It’s flexible, it’s forgiving, and it solves 80% of layout problems without much thought. But CSS Grid isn’t a compet…

    14 Jul 2026
  • Software Engineering Is Still Writing Letters By Hand→

    Every now and then a new technology arrives that completely breaks the assumptions of the world around it. Not gently. Not politely. Not in a way that leaves existing workflows intact. It shows up lik…

    11 Dec 2025
  • Vibe Coding is Changing the Way Code is Coded→

    The other night, I built a working app prototype in a single sitting to transform json into a format I wanted. Just prompts and a few tweaks. It kind of blew my mind. It got me thinking about how peop…

    25 Jul 2025
  • The Technical Service Blueprint: Bridging UX and Engineering→

    In many digital projects, user experience (UX) and technical architecture are treated as separate tracks. Designers focus on flows and interactions, while engineers dive into APIs, data models, and pe…

    21 Mar 2025
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