Mischief & Craft (a Matt Henry blog)

tl;dr: the US Web Design System has been functionally taken over by DOGE or a DOGE-aligned group.

Welcome to fight night.

I find it a little grating when people talk about their jobs under the rubric of "personal news."

It turns out that, at least for the time being, I work on a design system for a living.

Over the weekend, 18F was eliminated, and all of its staff placed on administrative leave in anticipation of imminent termination.

My favorite project that I've ever worked on is one from my early days at 18F.

Work This was my second week no longer being at 18F and serving full-time as eng. lead for USWDS.

Work I'm working on a High Profile project I won't go into beyond saying that the portion of it I'm working on is a big Typescript/React project.

I always knew that <C-o> would let you jump back to the previous cursor position, even if it was in another file.

The basic skill of programming is not writing code, it's solving incredibly tedious puzzles over and over every day for years to produce a new app that everyone will hate being forced to use.

Are you sick and tired of fighting specificity in your CSS selectors?