A peek into the future of frontend development
Islands Architecture - JASON Format
I’ve struggled to find references to this online, but heard the name used multiple times this year when describing the approach outlined here. To the best of my knowledge, the "Component Islands" pattern was coined by Etsy's frontend architect Katie Sylor-Miller during a meeting we had in 2019.
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A practical guide to frontend System Design
Sam, a passionate frontend developer, had been in the job market for what felt like...
What to build first: the house or the front door?
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Frontend System Design: The Complete Guide 2026
Learn how to approach frontend System Design interviews with real-world architecture patterns, scalability strategies, and practical examples used by top tech companies.
frontend-design - Skill
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.
Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific - Data & Society
Tropical paradise. Smiling faces. This is the fantasy Fiji has successfully sold to the world. And as I drive along the West Coast of Viti Levu, the archipelago’s largest island, the scenery does indeed resemble a tourist advertisement: crystal-blue ocean water, white sandy beaches, and lush tropical forests hugging the shoreline. But Fiji is more than breathtaking landscapes. While most people are aware of the rapid rise of data centers in the US and Europe, the creeping influence of tech giants like Google and Starklink can be seen and felt here, too.
The Atmosphere needs a front door - We Can Just Do Things
The Atmosphere needs a distinct brand identify, better tools for builders, a new UX for users, and a small empowered group willing to build it all.
Understanding Forward Deployed Engineering
Palantir is en vogue right now. So of course, folks are cargo-culting elements of its culture, especially “Forward Deployed Engineering”. Lots of companies are trying to imitate this, and some other founders have even reached out to me for advice on whether they, too, should do this model for their startup.
Front-end Inspiration, Resources, and Design References | Frontpedia
Curated frontend inspiration, design references, UI patterns, and development resources for modern web teams.
Architectural mismatch: why reuse is so hard
Why isn't there more progress toward building systems from existing parts? One answer is that the assumptions of the parts about their intended environment are implicit and either don't match the actual environment or conflict with those of other parts. The authors explore these problems in the context of their own experience with a compositional approach.<>
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Why Backend-for-Frontend for Solid is categorically wrong
Recently the Inrupt team (@maxleonard) posted an article titled “Backend for Frontend for Solid”, and here is my response to that (originally posted on LinkedIn) Backend-for-Frontend for Solid is absolutely and categorically the wrong approach for building Solid applications, in my opinion. This results in Solid just effectively being used as data storage, without the other benefits of controlling & knowing where your data is and what systems your data feeds into or is stored into. All the app...
Building @skysquare.app, I’ve thought a lot about what the future of the @atproto.com ecosystem might look like, and I’m increasingly excited by the possibilities. Skysquare is a useful demonstration of something that feels much bigger than the application itself—the portability of the ATProto post.
