Cirrus's Realm

The first DTCG Editors call, June 2020 This Tuesday, the Design Tokens Community Group (DTCG) published the first stable version of their spec: 2025.10 (they've adopted calendar versioning as of this release).

Photo credit: "Portrait Photo of Shocked Woman" by Andrea Piacquadio.

I recently ran across a gotcha when working with file paths in Node.js scripts across macOS, Linux and Windows, so sharing details and the solution here in case it helps someone else.

I needed a new phone and recently decided to treat myself to Samsung's latest Galaxy S24 Ultra.

While working at Wipro Digital I contributed a few posts to their blog.

I've just finished copying a batch of old blog posts covering the Symbian Smartphone Show 2008 to this blog.

...you wait for ages and then two come along at once!

Artwork I made sometime in the early 2000's titled "Cirrus's Realm" As of today, I've renamed this site (back) to Cirrus's Realm.

Have you ever worked on a web project using web fonts where you had to set different font-family names in order to display different weights (normal, bold, etc.) or styles (normal & italic) of a font?

When I launched this blog last month, I mentioned I wanted to republish posts I had made elsewhere here.

For someone who regularly works on other people's websites and apps, my own one is pretty old-fashioned and basic.

(Original image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) To support the creation of our recently redesigned Buildit @ Wipro Digital website, we have also created a nascent design system and its name is Gravity.

If my full-fat post about Design System Architecture is too long for your taste (Medium estimates it’s a 12 minute read), then you might prefer this summarised version… At Buildit we’ve done a fair amount of work on design systems.

This ended up being a lengthy post.

Now that my clickbaity headline got your attention, I should qualify my inflammatory statement a little: “WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) in the context of producing interactive user interfaces Must Die”.

I recently got a Samsung Gear 360 on loan courtesy of The Insiders.

Back in October I had the good fortune of being able to attend the excellent An Event Apart 2016 Orlando, a three day web design conference.

“The Atomium”.

I’ve wanted to set up a blog of my own for years.

As more and more of our work is done entirely digitally, it’s become necessary to rethink “tried and-true” methods of communicating ideas in favor of something different.

“Won’t someone please think about URLs?!”

This is the 2nd part of “Weaving a Better Web”.

When it comes to commissioning, designing or building websites, we’re often reactive to new trends instead of proactive.

Mobile World Congress 2009 is almost upon us.

Mobile World Congress 2009 is almost upon us.