Atomic Design
Brad Frost·2013·Beyond Tellerrand·47 minBrad Frost lays out the methodology that named atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, and pages — the vocabulary most modern design systems still borrow from.
Unexpected Benefits of Going Local-First
Tuomas Artman·2024·Local-First ConfLinear adopted local-first to make the app feel instant — and ended up with a team that ships faster than the architectures it replaced. Artman on what fell out of the decision.
Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
Rich Harris·2023·Svelte Society NYCHarris revisits the SPA-vs-MPA argument through the lens of edge runtimes — and pushes back on the idea that SSR-everywhere is a victory for users.
Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?
Rich Harris·2021·Jamstack ConfRich Harris pushes back on the SPA-vs-MPA dichotomy and sketches transitional apps — server-rendered, JS-enhanced, and progressively interactive.
Building a Custom React Renderer
Sophie Alpert·2019·React ConfSophie Alpert builds a tiny React renderer live on stage, demystifying reconciliation by writing it from scratch.
Distributed Systems Are a UX Problem
Tyler Treat·2018·QConTreat reframes consistency, latency, and partial failure as user-facing concerns — and shows what good distributed-system UX looks like.
Beyond React 16
Dan Abramov·2018·JSConfIcelandDan Abramov demos the React team's first sketches of async rendering and Suspense — the prototypes that would later become Concurrent Mode.