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Practical notes on frontend and backend systems, design systems, developer tooling, product platforms, and the engineering tradeoffs behind them.

August 24, 2026

One design system. Every product. Web and native.

For years we ran a main library, product-specific kits, and extras for the corp site. The founder wanted one token architecture everywhere. We shipped XUI in a month — colour, theme, radius, size, desktop and mobile, ready for AI-built prototypes.

August 23, 2026

Stop AI-syncing the starter. Extract a library.

We used AI to copy the same frontend into many product apps. Review became the bottleneck. One week of a real shared library beat another quarter of synchronized forks.