Karolina Szczur

Design systems operate under one of the following governance models: centralised, federated, or hybrid.

One day not that long ago, on a tram, my boiling frustrations with what the Web is becoming were particularly unbearable.

For the last seven years (four of which as a co-founder), I’ve been working with Ben↗ on Calibre↗, a software as a service platform for web performance.

In 2019, I’ve read 44 books, which is 83% more than last year (not having a hyper-stressful job for half of the year definitely helped this goal).

In 2020, I read 32 books out of my 40 goal.

This is the second time I’m writing a year in review.

In 2018 I’ve managed to go through 24 fantastic books—a little less than I’ve planned, but anxiety got in the way.

I haven’t done any year in reviews in the past, but I believe it’s a great way of reflecting on accomplishments and hardships I’ve managed to overcome.

Now and then I have a conversation with someone who’s interested in pursuing public speaking but too afraid of endless requirements and pressure correlating to doing so.

This article is inspired by my own experience and an insightful conversation with two lovely women — Susan Wu and Sarah Moran.

I don’t take speaking at conferences lightly.

⚠️ Trigger warning: the narrative includes mentions of harassment and depiction or discussion of discriminatory attitudes or actions.

Over a year ago I wrote on the subject of empathetic hiring and how we’re still failing to make it efficient, respectful and inclusive.

There are probably thousands of tech-oriented events being ran each day.

Receiving beautiful, functional emails from companies and services that we we use is hard to come by.

What does remote mean?

Yesterday I was working on a progressively enhanced user interface (without JavaScript) — a scenario that we cater to very frequently at a company I’m currently employed with.

During over ten years in the tech industry I went through the hiring process at small startups, mid-sized agencies and well-funded corporations at least a dozen times.

This post was inspired by a conversation about Open Source↗ between Adam Yeats and James Seymour-Lock and an article↗ by Remy Sharp.

Some of my friends ask me for advice on how to find a job.

Democracy is an ideology we’ve grown to love and historically fought for (still fighting in some cases) over the years.