Chase McCoy

The Browser Company of New York is building a web browser called Arc, and they recently shared a preview of a new feature called “Boosts”.

If you read any of my writing you know that Robin Sloan is one of my favorite internet thinkers.

A few things came across my desk this week that inspired hope about the future of the web and hypermedia as a medium.

This week the team behind Stripe’s documentation launched Markdoc, the toolchain used internally to author and manage all of our docs.

This week I finally received my Playdate from the folks over at Panic, and it’s just as delightful as everyone knew it would be.

I started my career building iOS apps, and made my way back to the web out of excitement for tools that were emerging at the time around component-based design and development.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about design systems documentation, and more importantly how we scale knowledge and best practices across a large team.

This collection was produced during the Small Season known as Rikka, the start of summer: The songs of summer begin.

Working on the internet in 2021 is really hard, and it’s getting harder.

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Simple collections of items laid out in rows and columns is perhaps one of the most common UI patterns.

In a recent project, I needed a way to create unique identifiers that met these criteria: Human readable (and human friendly) Short Random Creating short and random IDs is pretty easy, but making them human readable is a bit trickier, since you’ll need a…

Brad Frost: A design system governance process → This is a really great read.

I really like what the team at Kiwi.com have done with their design system, Orbit.

The idea of CSS resets is fascinating to me.

When I recently redesigned this site, I removed the light/dark mode toggle that I had before.

In JavaScript, you can use the textContent property of a node to get the text representation of the node and all of its descendent nodes.

Luke Jackson on the Formidable blog: Don’t Build That App!

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Today on their blog, Gatsby announced the release of new schema customization APIs in version 2.2.0.

I had an idea during a meeting today—what if we had a Slack bot that looked for common key words and phrases and suggested content from our design system?

XOXO is “an experimental festival for independent artists and creators who work on the internet,” which is exactly as amazing as it sounds.

It seems as though everything I gravitate towards in life tends to be at an intersection of art and technology.

Invision is writing a piece on the design team at Sprout Social, and they asked us to answer some questions about design and how we work at Sprout.

I don’t have the words to describe what we’ve lost in Anthony Bourdain.

My bank of choice is Simple.

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about how to be proactive in the practice of design.

Designers today spend far too much time drawing rectangles and dragging them around the screen.

When developing an iOS app, you often need to adjust constraints in order to make sure that the keyboard doesn’t obscure any of the elements on screen.

There has been a lot of talk about this article, which outlines Pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling.