Architecture
Choosing boring technology on purpose
Every exciting choice spends the same budget: the number of things that can surprise you at three in the morning.
Nadia Osman
Principal Engineer
Nadia has spent a decade making large front-ends smaller. She writes about architecture, build systems, and the unglamorous work of deleting code.
Company
Open source is a distribution strategy
Publishing the code was the easy half. Maintaining it in public is the part with a cost line.
Accessibility
Accessibility is a build step, not a review step
Catching a missing label in review means someone already wrote it, reviewed it, and shipped the habit.
Performance
The performance budget that actually held
A budget nobody enforces is a wish. We made it fail the build.
Architecture
Why we rebuilt the page builder around reusable sections
Inline blocks made every page a copy. Sections as documents made a design change land everywhere at once.