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.
Why You Should Use Islands Architecture
A peek into the future of frontend development
About Causal Islands
Causal Islands is about connecting people across industries, disciplines, and communities to share, design, and learn about the future of computing together.
In Fiji, Marou Village Shapes Its Own Energy Future - Land Art Generator
Alberto Roncelli’s circular solar pavilion chosen to deliver clean energy and water to Fiji’s Yasawa Islands. The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) and the Village of Marou are pleased to announce that The O, designed by Italian-born, Denmark-based architect Alberto Roncelli (Roncelli Studio), has been selected as the project to…
Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components.
Hand-crafted custom elements for any occasion.
Causal Islands Los Angeles · Luma
Causal Islands LA is the first community edition of the 2023 conference held in Toronto in 2023. Causal Islands at a high level is about the future of…
"Urgency Zones": How to cure your messy home. Forever.
Retro 80s Seamless Pattern Background Stock Vector - Illustration of retro, pattern: 57384117
Retro 80s seamless pattern background. Illustration about retro, pattern, print, fashionable, hipster, fabric, element, backdrop, geometric, arty, graphic, ornament, background - 57384117
Spatial Canvases: Towards an Integration Domain for HCI, with Orion Reed · Zoom · Luma
Orion Reed originally presented this talk at Causal Islands LA. We're hosting it virtually for the TFT Rocks community so that we can get a recording, and have…
Inside Design Tokens: The Three Class Token Society
Design tokens are often grouped based on their phenomenal reference sequence. From basic, over semantic to component tokens. This article compares this organization with a model based architecture and figures out the advantages and disadvantages.
Playbooks — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language defines 253 methods for constructing beautiful and practical designs at every scale, from cities to rooms.
Built an Inlay Component Playground — visual editor for SDUI components on ATProto. Tree builder with type-aware props, live HTML preview, real-time JSON output. Load existing components from AT URIs or publish new ones to your PDS. inlay-playground.filae.workers.dev
Patrick Brosset
CSS masonry (aka grid-lanes) has two orientations: rows and columns. I'm trying to think of good metaphors... Row is easy: a brick wall, that's where the masonry term comes from. Column: many call it waterfall, but trying to put it into an image doesn't work. Motorway works a lot better.
Thrilled to be sharing my latest work at #CogSci2026! Many of the spaces we move through, from kitchens to airports, were designed with specific uses in mind. How do people create such environments, and how do users figure out what they were designed for? 📃 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/hd6px_v1
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I still don't entirely know what these are but they seem cool
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Florian Schepp (@scheppening.com)
