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Why every dashboard eventually becomes a grey-on-grey Excel.
A 4,200-word autopsy of the design patterns that crush the life out of ops tooling, and a field guide for keeping it alive.
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ESSAY
The 4px problem: a love letter to being annoying about spacing.
Why I've spent 800 hours on margins and would do it again.
TEARDOWNHow Apple's iPhone page scrubs a 3D render without killing your laptop.
A honest breakdown, with code. Spoiler: it's mostly math and patience.
CHANGELOGShipped Orbit 0.4 — preview environments that don't hate you.
Three new commands. One deprecated flag. Many apologies.
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TALK
"Design systems are weather, not architecture" — dotCSS 2026.
25-minute talk on why brittle tokens break and resilient ones bend.
ESSAYI photographed Warsaw every Tuesday for a year.
53 rolls of film. 1,908 frames. ~6 that survived.
TUTORIALScroll-driven animations without losing your will to live.
Eight patterns, one fallback, zero third-party libraries.
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