Wrangling a blog with Astro Content Collections
How I set up a typed, validated blog pipeline in Astro: indexing, tags, categories, and the kind of schema errors that actually help instead of yell.
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Thoughts on design, process, systems, and the craft of building things. New posts land when the thinking does.
Engineering
Engineering
The Quiet Death of the 'Just Designer' Role
I merged my first PR into the frontend repo this month. Designing without understanding how the DOM works is starting to feel like designing blind.
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AI Didn't Replace Designers: It Replaced the First Draft
v0, Copilot, and Figma AI haven't replaced me. They've replaced the blank canvas, which turns out to be where I was spending most of my procrastination budget.
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Why Designers Have Less Freedom (And Why That's Good)
We moved to strict Storybook governance this quarter. Losing the freedom to invent new buttons turned out to be the best thing that's happened to our design.
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Handoff Is Dead: What Replaced It in 2025
We canceled our Zeplin subscription this summer, and the bigger change wasn't the tool, it was realizing handoff was never supposed to be an event.
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Design Systems Became Programming Languages in 2025
Migrating our UI kit to Figma Variables turned design system work into something closer to programming: scope, inheritance, and three-tier tokens.
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2026
2 posts- Apr 21 Wrangling a blog with Astro Content Collections Engineering
- Feb 10 The Quiet Death of the 'Just Designer' Role Engineering
2025
4 posts- Nov 3 AI Didn't Replace Designers: It Replaced the First Draft Notes
- Sep 25 Why Designers Have Less Freedom (And Why That's Good) Design
- Aug 14 Handoff Is Dead: What Replaced It in 2025 Process
- May 22 Design Systems Became Programming Languages in 2025 Systems