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Seventy-two dots per inch

Technology

Where does the 72 DPI standard come from, and what does it mean? This is not a history of typesetting or screen resolutions. It's a love letter to the Imperial System of Measurement.

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Building a design system 3 - Themes

Technology

What are themes, and how do we create them? In this exercise, we examine themes and build a creator and provider.

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Building a design system 2 - setup continued

Technology

This exercise continues the setup of our design system, adds the first provider, the first helper, and some new Typescript types.

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Building a design system 1 - setup

Technology

The first step in building a design system from scratch is setting up a repo, dependencies, testing, types, and state management.

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Design systems and design operations

Technology

Design systems are as common as their problems of adoption and support. Is there a way to encourage design systems thinking and adoption through organization and workflow?

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Building a design system - introduction

Technology

Have you ever wondered how to build a design system? Follow along and learn how to build to code side of a theme driven design system.

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Vesper

Editorial

The Vesper, that often debated, completely misunderstood, and totally irrelevant cocktail from a movie everyone knows and the book that came before it.

Is Team Topologies a pointless formality? image

Is Team Topologies a pointless formality?

Technology

Effective development teams are essential and Team Topologies details how teams can flourish and evolve. But does it work? Yes. These are some impressions from my experience with Team Topologies.