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Notes on the craft.
Thoughts on design systems, accessibility, and the work of building software that lasts.
A brand book that reads its own tokens
We shipped a public brand book at /brand — and made it document the real palette by reading the live theme, so it can never drift out of brand.
Read →Nettaker is live — know your take-home before the taxman does
Our income-tax calculator is on the App Store. It turns a gross figure into the one number that actually matters: what lands in your account.
Read →Capital: every bank account in one honest view
Capital brings multiple bank accounts into a single clear picture — balances, movements, and where your money actually goes. Launching soon.
Read →Re-skin a whole design system in one pass: Lexicon Theme Creator
A free Figma plugin that re-themes the entire Lexicon library — 60+ variable values across light and dark, the radius scale, and every text style — from one share link.
Read →Figma variables to Tailwind, without the mistakes
A free Figma plugin that turns raw Figma variables into clean Tailwind utility classes and converts px and % into rem — the boring translation that is easy to get wrong.
Read →Auditor: Parlance, as a native browser
We are rebuilding the Parlance browser extension as a standalone browser — token checks, component contracts, and W3C validation, built in rather than bolted on.
Read →Coaching, connected: meet Pacer Coach
The trainer side of Pacer. Coaches assign clients, build training and nutrition plans, and follow progress — synced live to the Pacer app their clients already use.
Read →Pacer: meal tracking that keeps your training on pace
Log meals, track nutrition, and stay aligned with your goals — and when you work with a trainer, their plan from Pacer Coach shows up right where you eat.
Read →Why design-development contracts matter more than documentation
Most design systems fail not because of bad components, but because of implicit assumptions. Contracts make those assumptions explicit and enforceable.
Read →Introducing Parlance: the contract layer for design systems
Parlance is a platform for defining, versioning, and enforcing design-development contracts — with automated audits and W3C verification built in.
Read →Building a design system in public: meet Lexicon
Lexicon is the open-source design system behind the pace — 419 tokens, 10 components, and a three-layer architecture built for real products.
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