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⚡ AI Lessons
Dev.to · Alexander
1d ago
CSS variables are the only design token format that matters
The JSON parsing nightmare I was looking at a Slack thread in our frontend channel...
Dev.to · Alexander
1w ago
Auto-generating Tailwind configs directly from Figma variables in CI
I woke up to a sea of red CI failure notifications last Tuesday. A junior developer had tried to...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Building a CSS motion token pipeline for custom easing curves
You open a pull request for a new modal component. The developer wrote transition: all 0.3s...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Multi-brand design systems are a massive waste of time
The premature scaling problem I was on a Zoom call last Friday with a lead designer. We...
Dev.to · Alexander
🌐 Frontend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
JS Tools — Five content utilities in one HTML file
⚡ JS Tools A single-file, dependency-free toolkit of five content utilities for editors,...
Dev.to · Alexander
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Catching Rogue Hex Codes in CI Before They Reach Production
The rogue grey incident I was reviewing a pull request for a new onboarding flow last...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Generating Fluid Typography CSS Clamps from Static JSON Variables
A designer hands you a beautiful new typography spec on a Tuesday morning. The design file has two...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Generating a Tailwind theme from semantic colour tokens
You are looking at a pull request with over six hundred lines of hardcoded hex codes in Tailwind...
Dev.to · Alexander
🌐 Frontend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Stop using hex codes in your CSS
The invisible button incident I got a Slack message at 10 AM last Wednesday. A junior...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Scoping multi-brand CSS variables using data attributes
I opened the pull request and immediately felt a headache coming on. We just acquired a smaller...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
2mo ago
Stop flattening your typography tokens into static CSS classes
The descender clipping incident It was Tuesday morning and my coffee was getting cold. A...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
2mo ago
Taming typography specificity wars with CSS layers and bound aliases
The Friday afternoon specificity nightmare You are debugging a production issue at 4 PM on...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Stop flattening your typography tokens: Preserving bound aliases in W3C exports
I was looking at a pull request last Monday. The marketing team had just rolled out a massive...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Generating fluid CSS clamp functions from static Figma typography tokens
You are staring at a CSS file with 45 lines of media queries just to handle font sizes. The design...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Stop pretending your Figma token migration is actually finished
We were sitting in a design review on Thursday afternoon. The lead designer wanted to show off the...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Auto-generating Tailwind config from Figma variables via GitHub Actions
The Slack message that started it all "Hey Alex, the new brand colours are not working in...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Stop exporting SCSS variables from your design system
The breaking point I was reviewing a pull request last Tuesday. A developer on my team was...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
Export Figma variables to CSS custom properties using Style Dictionary
TL;DR: We are going to take raw JSON from Figma variables and automatically turn it into working CSS...
Dev.to · Alexander
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
I tried to fix loneliness. I ended up building a Places API 200x cheaper than Google.
A couple of years ago, a friend came up with an idea that I still think is worth pursuing. Moving to...
Dev.to · Alexander
🖌️ UI/UX Design
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
Building a Figma to GitHub token pipeline that actually works
The problem Picture this. It is a Friday afternoon. Your team is getting ready for a big...
Dev.to · Alexander
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2y ago
Kotlin Clean Architecture and CQRS 🚀👋👨💻
In this article we will implement the microservice using Clean Architecture and CQRS using...
Dev.to · Alexander
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
⚡ AI Lesson
3y ago
Transactional Outbox pattern step by step with Spring and Kotlin💫
The reason why we need Transactional Outbox is that a service often needs to publish messages as part...
Dev.to · Alexander
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
3y ago
Kotlin gRPC with Spring 👋✨💫
👨💻 Full list what has been used: Spring web framework Spring WebFlux Reactive REST...
Dev.to · Alexander
☁️ DevOps & Cloud
⚡ AI Lesson
3y ago
Kotlin Spring WebFlux, R2DBC and Redisson microservice in k8s 👋✨💫
👨💻 Full list what has been used: Spring Spring web framework Spring WebFlux Reactive...
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