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Kolby
@kolbysisk.com
Sr Engineering Manager @Udacity

I’m into TypeScript, React, Design Systems, and Design. I’m a dad, competitive paintball player, and mediocre snowboarder
My thoughts on building a design system in 2026 (Spoiler: don't use Shadcn)

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Building a Design System in 2026
I’ve dedicated much of my career to building design systems, from supporting scrappy start-ups driven by ROI to large organizations that…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
TIL that Next.js facilitates redirecting in server action by throwing an error. If you're wrapping a server action in try catch to show a toast, you'll need to use the `isRedirectError` helper before showing error toast. Or refactor all your redirects to client side. Fun stuff.
January 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I've conducted hundreds of interviews. The last ~20 I've noticed that *most* candidates are obviously using ChatGPT to help them answer questions or even work through coding exercises.

Anyone else noticing this? Anyone got a solution?
November 17, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Just deployed a Next.js project to cloudflare workers. The future is now, old man
November 7, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Am I crazy or is the @nextjs `use cache` directive significantly worse than `unstable_cache` ?

What am I missing? I just want a function to cache shit.
November 3, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Yeah, this is better
November 3, 2024 at 2:54 AM