Notes on building for the browser

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• Coming soonDesign systems

  Design tokens that survive a rebrand

  A three-layer token architecture that let us reskin an entire product in two days instead of two sprints.

• Coming soonPerformance

  Stop shipping 400kb of JavaScript to read a blog post

  Islands, partial hydration and a hard budget. The unglamorous work that makes sites fast on real phones.

• Coming soonAccessibility

  The modal dialog is harder than your framework admits

  Focus traps, inert, scroll locking and the five bugs every custom dialog implementation ships with.

• Coming soonPerformance

  Virtualised tables without the jank

  What actually causes dropped frames in a 100k-row grid, measured rather than guessed.

• Coming soonCraft

  Your loading skeleton is lying to users

  Honest empty, stale and partial states build more trust than a shimmer that never ends.

• Coming soonCraft

  Typography on the web is a layout problem

  Fluid scales, optical sizing and why your line length is wrong on exactly one breakpoint.