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On this site I share my process, tools, lessons, and the occasional bit of creative chaos from working with the web.

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  • A designer's desk with UI panels showing appearance options, variant styles, and style controls, alongside four button variants and design tools scattered around

    Building a Theming System

    build a robust, library and framework agnostic design system

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  • Four stone blocks in ascending size, each engraved with progressively more specific HTML — from the raw </> through <input type="button"> and <a role="button"> to a fully realised <button> — illustrating the evolution from a basic primitive to a complete interactive element

    Design System Primitives

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  • CSS token variables for spacing, typography, and breakpoints arranged on a structured grid, representing the raw values a design system depends on

    Design System Utility Tokens

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Featured Project

Nihongo (日本語)

A privacy-first desktop language tutor featuring real-time voice conversation, spaced repetition vocabulary tracking, and local AI inference via a Python sidecar — no audio or conversation data ever leaves the device.

  • Rust
  • Tauri
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • SQLite
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