(or: should designers write React code?) This is some extended writing that got kickstarted by watching Brad Frost’s talk about Design Systems at the recent CSS Day 2019. If you are interested the video is online. Before the conference I had heard a podcast episode where Brad was talking about design vs. dev and design […]
Category Archives: workflow
Set up a keyboard shortcut for tags in macOS Mojave
I wanted to bind ⌥+⌘+T to be able to use macOS’s tags feature using a keyboard shortcut in Finder.app. The way to set it up is super vague, so I figured I would share that you need to do to make it work. First, set it up in System Preferences > Shortcuts. Attach the shortcut […]
Expand stroke-based SVGs in batch using an Illustrator script
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I was in the situation where had a bunch of SVGs, but they were stroke-based, from feather-icons.com. I don’t trust the cross-browser rendering of SVG strokes. It leads to problems when trying to color the icons with CSS as well – so I needed the expanded versions. There are over 200 icons in the set. Expanding […]