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2024

Configuring Tailwind as a Design System

2023

In a band, should all decisions be unanimous?

The difference between iteration and prototyping

2022

Code, people and fallibility

2021

Do the grid fins still fold in?

2019

Notes on Deciphering Sun Tzu

2018

The matter of taste

The instantaneous language of beauty

Practice boredom

Aphorisms for remembering how to see

Rules for record collecting

Wander, wonder, wunder

John Boyd's bloody-mindedness

Creativity starts with love and theft

Designers should code