Built a cardboard box last night. Adjusted the proportions by eye until it looked right, then checked it against root rectangles. I was within a fraction of √2. That's why sacred geometry satisfies. It's like a pat on the head by the universe that your eye already knew.

The Confederacy argued that states, not Washington, hold ultimate authority over the rights of their citizens. They lost that argument at Appomattox in 1865. On April 29, 2026, in Louisiana v. Callais, they won it. Not on a battlefield. In the chambers of the Supreme Court medium.com/illumination...

Before C, every program was written for one machine. After C, you wrote it once and compiled it everywhere. Design systems don't have one yet. I just published The Missing Language of User Interfaces www.designsystemscollective.com/the-missing-...

You might be a conservative or a liberal, but you accepted certain truths before you chose your political affiliation. Explore how you think about truth, power, and the purpose of governance. muldoon.design/playground/r...

AI displacement of white-collar workers began May 2023. 757,000 jobs lost. Healthcare hiring hides it in the headline numbers. The recession isn't coming. It arrived. I just published AI Isn’t Coming for Your Job. It Already Arrived. medium.com/the-geopolit...

A Cornell study just confirmed that people who love corporate jargon are worse at their jobs. George Orwell explained why in 1946. The jargon isn't a symptom of bad thinking. It's the cause. I just published It’s True, Bullshit Makes You Stupid medium.com/p/bullshit-m...

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I just published in @gitconnected I Will Never Code Without AI Again levelup.gitconnected.com/i-will-never...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings 3 Kickoff Call” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

I just published Who Bought the Nobel Prize in Economics? medium.com/the-geopolit...

Design once had what engineering still has: a tradition of history, theory, and critique that let practitioners appeal to shared principles outside any individual's authority. I just published Why Engineers Can Say ‘This Is Wrong’ and Designers Can’t www.designsystemscollective.com/why-engineer...

I just published in @uxdesigncc Why design systems fail to resolve disagreements uxdesign.cc/when-agreeme...

Your design system arguments never resolve because the profession destroyed the tools that would let them. Here's when, here's how, and here's what it would take to get them back. uxdesign.cc/when-agreeme...

Is there a finer R.E.M. album than Lifes Rich Pageant? I think not!

I'm attending No Kings's event, “New Haven: No Kings, No Billionaires, No Genocide!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Thrilled to be a guest speaker this week at Patterns NYC, hosted by Knapsack. The topic is 'Patterns with Purpose: How Standards Drive Scale and Value'. www.linkedin.com/posts/knapsa...

In Battlestar Galactica, the phrase "All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again." suggests a cyclical pattern of human history, particularly relating to the conflict between humans and the Cylons.

Although the sample size is small (117), the strong preference of 84% for 'blue-90, a very dark tone,' provides a margin of error of ±6.7% at a 95% confidence level. For most practical purposes, this is sufficient for decision-making.

Please share this link and answer the poll. I have an upcoming podcast talking about palette colors and it would be great to have more respondents! www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinr...

I'm discussing design tokens and naming conventions in an upcoming podcast, details of which will be announced soon. Please, help me out by voting on the following poll by typing A or B in the thread. Love to hear why you chose your answer.

✨hire me ✨ I'm looking for new client work. Bringing over ten years of front-end development experience and Design Systems consultancy. Do you need help with your current codebase? Looking to create a fresh Design System? Wanting to update your CSS? I'm here. www.alwaystwisted.com 🙏🖤

You'd think the button with white text on #578BDD background passes WCAG Color Contrast, but you'd be wrong. Only the black text passes AA and AAA for Normal text. This is why APCA can't come soon enough.

"I'm a design system team of one." www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Dj...