TIL

Today I Learned. Small discoveries worth writing down.

January 30, 2026

Design tokens are just variables with opinions

Design tokens aren't a technology. They're a decision to treat your design primitives (colors, spacing, typography) as a shared source of truth. The tooling matters less than the commitment to use them consistently.

January 29, 2026

The cursor tells you everything

You can understand almost any interface by watching what happens to the cursor. Pointer means clickable. Grab means draggable. Text means editable. Good design makes these affordances obvious; great design makes them invisible.

This is the public version of my learning log. More entries coming as I learn.