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Dev.to · Alexander
1d 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
1w 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
2w 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
3w 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
4w 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
1mo 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
1mo 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
2mo 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
2mo 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
2mo 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
2y ago
Kotlin Clean Architecture and CQRS 🚀👋👨💻
In this article we will implement the microservice using Clean Architecture and CQRS using...

Dev.to · Alexander
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
3y ago
Kotlin gRPC with Spring 👋✨💫
👨💻 Full list what has been used: Spring web framework Spring WebFlux Reactive REST...

Dev.to · Alexander
3y ago
Kotlin Spring WebFlux, R2DBC and Redisson microservice in k8s 👋✨💫
👨💻 Full list what has been used: Spring Spring web framework Spring WebFlux Reactive...

Dev.to · Alexander
4y ago
Java Spring EventSourcing and CQRS Clean Architecture microservice 👋⚡️💫
In this article let's try to create closer to real world Event Sourcing and CQRS microservice using:...
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