Design engineer at Figma, former co-creator of Astro, professional dumbasshttps://pow.rs/https://pow.rs/blog/10-years-of-frontend/https://pow.rs/blog/10-years-of-frontend/Plus another 6 of whatever you called it before that.https://pow.rs/blog/3-layers-of-ui-interaction/https://pow.rs/blog/3-layers-of-ui-interaction/Every interactive UI element should consider all 3 layers; do yours?https://pow.rs/blog/3-pillars-of-front-end-knowledge/https://pow.rs/blog/3-pillars-of-front-end-knowledge/A year of reflecting on Chris Coyier’s “The Great Divide” post. I think it holds up, but requires a little more nuance. https://pow.rs/blog/all-the-answers-to-should-designers-code/https://pow.rs/blog/all-the-answers-to-should-designers-code/the eternal war rages onhttps://pow.rs/blog/anger-can-be-a-force-for-good/https://pow.rs/blog/anger-can-be-a-force-for-good/if expressed right—a huge, ginormous “if”https://pow.rs/blog/animation-easings/https://pow.rs/blog/animation-easings/If you use default easings for your animations you might as well not even bother animating it.https://pow.rs/blog/are-images-your-slowdown/https://pow.rs/blog/are-images-your-slowdown/the secret to optimizing imageshttps://pow.rs/blog/bazel-is-incompatible-with-javascript/https://pow.rs/blog/bazel-is-incompatible-with-javascript/If you don’t know what Bazel is, you not only can skip this blog post; I envy you greatly.https://pow.rs/blog/build-your-own-touch-slider-with-hammerjs/https://pow.rs/blog/build-your-own-touch-slider-with-hammerjs/high-performance touch events for demanding jobshttps://pow.rs/blog/check-out-these-foundries-for-new-fonts/https://pow.rs/blog/check-out-these-foundries-for-new-fonts/designs looking a little stale? it’s probably your weak fontshttps://pow.rs/blog/cloud-jumping-with-manifold/https://pow.rs/blog/cloud-jumping-with-manifold/how to take back full control of your cloud services in one afternoonhttps://pow.rs/blog/css-puzzles/https://pow.rs/blog/css-puzzles/How a 12-week program resulted in open-source educationhttps://pow.rs/blog/did-we-fuck-up-the-internet-pt-1/https://pow.rs/blog/did-we-fuck-up-the-internet-pt-1/The principal designs of the internet were made a long time ago, for different uses than what we use it for today. Are keeping those old designs hurting the internet long-term? https://pow.rs/blog/did-we-fuck-up-the-internet-pt-2/https://pow.rs/blog/did-we-fuck-up-the-internet-pt-2/As the philosopher Thom Yorke once said, “where do we go from here?” https://pow.rs/blog/distributed-web-pt-1/https://pow.rs/blog/distributed-web-pt-1/when to not get sold by marketing speakhttps://pow.rs/blog/distributed-web-pt-2/https://pow.rs/blog/distributed-web-pt-2/when is it time to pony up for custom development?https://pow.rs/blog/dont-use-hsl-for-anything/https://pow.rs/blog/dont-use-hsl-for-anything/HSL is great in theory, but worse than you realize in practicehttps://pow.rs/blog/dribbble-is-a-painkiller-not-a-vitamin/https://pow.rs/blog/dribbble-is-a-painkiller-not-a-vitamin/how instant gratification can curb growthhttps://pow.rs/blog/envy-labs/https://pow.rs/blog/envy-labs/https://pow.rs/blog/envy-labs-2017-brand-rediscovering-meaning/https://pow.rs/blog/envy-labs-2017-brand-rediscovering-meaning/rediscovering meaning, returning to formhttps://pow.rs/blog/error-handling-like-a-three-prong-outlet/https://pow.rs/blog/error-handling-like-a-three-prong-outlet/the hidden part of programminghttps://pow.rs/blog/expanding-hex-colors-to-48-bit/https://pow.rs/blog/expanding-hex-colors-to-48-bit/Dumb solutions can be smart, sometimeshttps://pow.rs/blog/getting-started-with-webpack/https://pow.rs/blog/getting-started-with-webpack/harnessing the web’s most powerful build toolhttps://pow.rs/blog/hey-now-youre-an-ai-star/https://pow.rs/blog/hey-now-youre-an-ai-star/My world’s on fire, how ’bout yours?https://pow.rs/blog/how-to-get-a-job-coding-in-2021/https://pow.rs/blog/how-to-get-a-job-coding-in-2021/It’s tough to get started, but the rewards are worth it. https://pow.rs/blog/how-to-get-a-job-coding-in-2021-pt-2/https://pow.rs/blog/how-to-get-a-job-coding-in-2021-pt-2/Go read part 1 first if you haven’t!https://pow.rs/blog/how-to-optimize-images/https://pow.rs/blog/how-to-optimize-images/not all optimization techniques are equalhttps://pow.rs/blog/lessons-from-astro/https://pow.rs/blog/lessons-from-astro/lessons from helping start a startup from scratch and working on open source fulltime https://pow.rs/blog/media-queries-are-still-a-hack/https://pow.rs/blog/media-queries-are-still-a-hack/Media queries are janky. No, it’s not just you. https://pow.rs/blog/on-startups/https://pow.rs/blog/on-startups/How to burn out your employees AND bridges all at the same time!https://pow.rs/blog/planet-of-the-apps-where-are-they-now/https://pow.rs/blog/planet-of-the-apps-where-are-they-now/Looking back on everyone’s favorite cursed Shark Tank ripoff.https://pow.rs/blog/playfulness-budget/https://pow.rs/blog/playfulness-budget/At what point does whimsy and “delight” turn into user frustration? https://pow.rs/blog/playwright-vrt/https://pow.rs/blog/playwright-vrt/It will exceed your wildest expectations, or your money back.https://pow.rs/blog/react-is-fine/https://pow.rs/blog/react-is-fine/The year of React’s demise should be coming the same year as the Linux Desktop. https://pow.rs/blog/responsive-modular-typography-scales-in-css/https://pow.rs/blog/responsive-modular-typography-scales-in-css/a time-saving type system with little config and lots of flexibilityhttps://pow.rs/blog/responsive-type-scales-in-css/https://pow.rs/blog/responsive-type-scales-in-css/Get perfect, easy-to-use font scaling with < 1kB of CSS. Sound too good to be true? It’s not! https://pow.rs/blog/secure-runtime-variables-in-ironworker/https://pow.rs/blog/secure-runtime-variables-in-ironworker/Docker secrets with minimal code & configurationhttps://pow.rs/blog/stylable-the-good-the-bad-the-weird/https://pow.rs/blog/stylable-the-good-the-bad-the-weird/taking the new CSS preprocessor from Wix for a spinhttps://pow.rs/blog/the-state-of-es-modules-in-2020/https://pow.rs/blog/the-state-of-es-modules-in-2020/JavaScript changed forever in 2019. Did you miss it? https://pow.rs/blog/theres-no-such-thing-as-multi-axis-modes/https://pow.rs/blog/theres-no-such-thing-as-multi-axis-modes/Modes, themes, collections, whatever you call it, doesn’t solve your busted design token setup.https://pow.rs/blog/try-vue/https://pow.rs/blog/try-vue/great for beginners, great for expertshttps://pow.rs/blog/vim-setup-designer-developer/https://pow.rs/blog/vim-setup-designer-developer/when you want to use vim but don’t want your eyes to bleedhttps://pow.rs/blog/vitest/https://pow.rs/blog/vitest/Throw away whatever you’re using already and use this for testing.https://pow.rs/blog/was-html-a-mistake/https://pow.rs/blog/was-html-a-mistake/HTML was designed for basic text editing. How is it still holding up in a world where we’re building rich interactive experiences? https://pow.rs/blog/we-migrated-to-nextjs/https://pow.rs/blog/we-migrated-to-nextjs/server-side rendering by the numbershttps://pow.rs/blog/web-design-isnt-losing-its-soul/https://pow.rs/blog/web-design-isnt-losing-its-soul/don’t listen to the hatershttps://pow.rs/blog/webpack-postcss-cssnext/https://pow.rs/blog/webpack-postcss-cssnext/writing future CSS in a modern JS setuphttps://pow.rs/blog/weird-wacky-world-of-rgb/https://pow.rs/blog/weird-wacky-world-of-rgb/Color isn’t as simple as one might think