https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/Practical writing about frontend engineering by Rafael Kim.en https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/shipping-less-javascript-without-rewriting-everything.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/shipping-less-javascript-without-rewriting-everything.htmlTue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000A colleague asked me last week why our team cares so much about hydration. I gave a rambling answer, so here is the longer, more organized version. https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/what-actually-moved-our-largest-contentful-paint.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/what-actually-moved-our-largest-contentful-paint.htmlSun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000A colleague asked me last week why our team cares so much about Core Web Vitals. I gave a rambling answer, so here is the longer, more organized version. https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/building-forms-that-don-t-fight-the-browser.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/building-forms-that-don-t-fight-the-browser.htmlWed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000A colleague asked me last week why our team cares so much about design tokens. I gave a rambling answer, so here is the longer, more organized version. https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/a-practical-guide-to-css-container-queries.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/a-practical-guide-to-css-container-queries.htmlFri, 17 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000This post started as a note to my future self. Every few months I relearn the same lessons about container queries, so this time I'm writing them down. https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/design-tokens-are-a-contract-not-a-color-palette.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/design-tokens-are-a-contract-not-a-color-palette.htmlSun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000This post started as a note to my future self. Every few months I relearn the same lessons about design tokens, so this time I'm writing them down. https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/how-we-test-ui-without-snapshot-tests.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/how-we-test-ui-without-snapshot-tests.htmlSat, 21 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000Every codebase has one area everyone is a little afraid to touch. On our team, it was everything related to server-side rendering. https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/the-accessibility-bugs-our-test-suite-never-caught.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/the-accessibility-bugs-our-test-suite-never-caught.htmlSun, 13 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000There is no shortage of articles about Svelte. Most of them cover the happy path. This one is about what happened after the happy path ended. https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/server-components-one-year-later.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/server-components-one-year-later.htmlTue, 01 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000There is no shortage of articles about Playwright. Most of them cover the happy path. This one is about what happened after the happy path ended. https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/notes-from-migrating-a-large-app-to-vite.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/notes-from-migrating-a-large-app-to-vite.htmlFri, 27 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000There is no shortage of articles about Vite. Most of them cover the happy path. This one is about what happened after the happy path ended. https://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/why-i-stopped-reaching-for-a-state-management-library.htmlhttps://us1005qzt.jp2haozu-naookg-okak.cc/posts/why-i-stopped-reaching-for-a-state-management-library.htmlFri, 02 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000For a long time I treated bundle size as something to worry about later. Then a small change to our Vite setup turned into a week of debugging, and "later" arrived all at once.