Kevin Yank

Recent articles (page 1 of 43)

  1. Jan 22, 2024 Use Tailwind CSS prefixes for shared design system components

    Surprisingly little has been written about how to use Tailwind with design systems or shared components, when both those components and the app consuming them are styled with Tailwind. Tailwind's `prefix` option is specifically designed to allow for this, but it's a somewhat ugly solution that we did our best to avoid at Culture Amp until recently. Here's everything we learned, and why we're ultimately embracing `prefix`.

  2. Jan 8, 2024 Subspace Radio #50: Star Trek V commentary

  3. Dec 14, 2023 Subspace Radio #49: Barriers in space

  4. Dec 14, 2023 Help! Storybook is eating all our tests!

    Storybook is a visual workshop for developing, composing and documenting UI components in isolation. For many years it’s been a favoured tool by Design System teams. But in recent years, Storybook has sneakily grown into a very powerful and versatile automated testing tool as well! In this talk, I show how Storybook has disrupted the traditional Test Pyramid at Culture Amp and enabled us to test much more with much less code and effort than ever before.

  5. Nov 8, 2023 Subspace Radio #48: Aliens working together