Design
Design tokens are a contract, not a palette
A token file is not a list of colours. It is a promise between design and code about what may change, and what may not.
Blog
Notes on designing and building small products, in English and French.
Building
What a metronome taught me about time in JavaScript
Prototyping Metrono’s metronome, I learned that a timer cannot keep a beat. The fix: book clicks ahead on the audio clock and let the UI follow.
Building
A bilingual site without an i18n plugin
This site is in English and French. Instead of a plugin, each post is one document with a shared tab and one tab per language.
Design
Reading width is a design decision
Long lines look elegant in a mockup and tire readers in real life. How I set the measure for this blog, and why it stops at 65 characters.
Notes
One keyboard, two languages: building Tipito
Tipito is a small browser game that teaches touch typing with French and Luxembourgish words. The keyboard layout turned out to be the hard part.