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Refactoring Vlox’s Theme Engine 🎨
The Architecture: Most standard theme systems swap a single global class on the element. My engine acts like…
Decorative Text on the Web: Unicode, Grapheme Clusters, and Platform Compatibility
Decorative text looks simple. Copy a few symbols, add them to a username or bio, and paste the…
Three small design decisions in a “toggle effects via CSS class” library, and the tradeoffs behind them
Three small design decisions in a “toggle effects via CSS class” library, and the tradeoffs behind them I…
Why Scroll-First Date Pickers Work Better on Mobile
Most date pickers still use the same interaction model they have used for years: Open the calendar. See…
Most glassmorphism is blur + a white overlay. I extracted the actual refraction into a Claude Code skill
Every glassmorphism snippet I’ve seen is backdrop-filter: blur() plus a white overlay. That’s a blurred rectangle. Real glass…
I Switched from Postman to Bruno 🚀
I recently moved from Postman to Bruno, and I’m really liking it so far. It feels much lighter,…
Ng-News 26/17: PrimeNG’s New Licensing, and A2UI for Angular
PrimeNG’s new licensing model and A2UI for model-controlled Angular interfaces are the headline topics this week. Also in…
3 Finance-Themed UI Concepts I Built Recently (Free to Use)
I’ve been spending some time experimenting with different UI patterns lately, and instead of building another generic landing…
I wrote this while refactoring my invoice app and trying to sort out where frontend “business logic” should actually live. Curious how others draw the line between components, hooks, use cases, and domain helpers in real React apps.
Clean Architecture on the Frontend: Beyond Smart and Dumb Components djblackett djblackett djblackett Follow Jun 7 Clean Architecture…
ViewComponent vs. Phlex: Which Ruby UI Library Should You Choose?
I remember when my app/views folder was a complete disaster. I had deeply nested partials, instance variables floating…
