Drew Minns
@reallygood.work
Digital Sustainability Pro, Designer, Engineer, Dad, Optimist, Encourager, Excellent bio with commas maker 🥳
working really hard to make good internet things https://reallygood.work 🏄♂️
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I made https://coralui.com — because design/dev sucks. 🪸
working really hard to make good internet things https://reallygood.work 🏄♂️
PMA 🤙
I made https://coralui.com — because design/dev sucks. 🪸
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Drew Minns
@reallygood.work
· Jan 23
A digital studio that builds excellent websites and apps that are better for the earth.
Really Good Work is a digital studio that specializes in sustainable web and app development, strategy and design.
reallygood.work
Ok so like. Time to start talking about this digital sustainability thingy. Basically, every transaction of data we make online requires energy from a potentially non-renewable resource. So like, let’s solve that with design. We all want the simplest, best experiences.
reallygood.work
reallygood.work
Ever feel like digital design rules change the second you finally master them? 🌀 It’s not just you—it’s the reality of working in digital. And nowhere is that more true than accessibility. 👀
July 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Ever feel like digital design rules change the second you finally master them? 🌀 It’s not just you—it’s the reality of working in digital. And nowhere is that more true than accessibility. 👀
Ever notice how the fastest sites just *feel* lighter? Like stepping into a sunny, quiet room instead of a packed subway at rush hour. ☀️🚇
July 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Ever notice how the fastest sites just *feel* lighter? Like stepping into a sunny, quiet room instead of a packed subway at rush hour. ☀️🚇
You're not scaling your product—you're scaling your patterns.
Most teams think they're scaling their product. But what they're actually scaling are the patterns they use to build it.
Most teams think they're scaling their product. But what they're actually scaling are the patterns they use to build it.
July 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
You're not scaling your product—you're scaling your patterns.
Most teams think they're scaling their product. But what they're actually scaling are the patterns they use to build it.
Most teams think they're scaling their product. But what they're actually scaling are the patterns they use to build it.
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President Ramaphosa on Thursday championed green hydrogen as Africa’s future, but can the continent’s ambitious dream overcome the reality of prohibitive costs and a risk-averse international financial regimen?
RENEWABLE ENERGY: Ramaphosa extols green hydrogen as future driver of Africa-wide growth
www.dailymaverick.co.za
June 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
President Ramaphosa on Thursday championed green hydrogen as Africa’s future, but can the continent’s ambitious dream overcome the reality of prohibitive costs and a risk-averse international financial regimen?
I wrote about how Tailwind V4 might just be the most powerful tool in your styling toolchain. I cover its design token first approach, how to use its powerful utility class generation and hot to pair it with future CSS tooling for powerful results. reallygoodwork.com/journals/how...
How to use Tailwind v4 to superpower your design system.
A practical guide to Tailwind CSS V4's new token-driven approach, covering automatic utility generation, contextual components, and future possibilities.
reallygoodwork.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I wrote about how Tailwind V4 might just be the most powerful tool in your styling toolchain. I cover its design token first approach, how to use its powerful utility class generation and hot to pair it with future CSS tooling for powerful results. reallygoodwork.com/journals/how...
Go skateboarding. It’s a lot of fun.
June 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Go skateboarding. It’s a lot of fun.
I’ve been really stoked on tailwind v4 lately as a styling engine. If you’re looking for a cool, easy to setup and scalable styling tool, I encourage you to give it a look!
May 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I’ve been really stoked on tailwind v4 lately as a styling engine. If you’re looking for a cool, easy to setup and scalable styling tool, I encourage you to give it a look!
Couldn’t agree more. The div hell this creates couldn’t demonstrate more of a flippant lack of care for audiences. It’s the equivalent of a snotty teenager passive aggressively doing their chores while rolling their eyes at you. Is this really what we want the internet to be?
We're time traveling back to 1997 today, when WISYWIG editors were all the rage. In the decades since, web technology has clawed its way from that primitive state with semantic HTML that made accessibility possible and let content drive appearance rather than vice-versa.
Then Figma blew it all up.
Then Figma blew it all up.
Figma Dreamweaver
The dream of being able to generate working websites will remain out of reach until UX redefines its practice around semantic structure rather than layouts.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Couldn’t agree more. The div hell this creates couldn’t demonstrate more of a flippant lack of care for audiences. It’s the equivalent of a snotty teenager passive aggressively doing their chores while rolling their eyes at you. Is this really what we want the internet to be?
Let’s reframe what digital sustainability really means. It’s not just cleaner code or greener hosting.
It’s about inclusivity.
Because when your site is lighter, faster, and thoughtfully built, more people get to show up.
#digitalsustainability #inclusivedesign
It’s about inclusivity.
Because when your site is lighter, faster, and thoughtfully built, more people get to show up.
#digitalsustainability #inclusivedesign
May 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Let’s reframe what digital sustainability really means. It’s not just cleaner code or greener hosting.
It’s about inclusivity.
Because when your site is lighter, faster, and thoughtfully built, more people get to show up.
#digitalsustainability #inclusivedesign
It’s about inclusivity.
Because when your site is lighter, faster, and thoughtfully built, more people get to show up.
#digitalsustainability #inclusivedesign
One of the easiest things you can do to speed up your site is subset your custom fonts. This means getting rid of any characters you may or may not need to dramatically shrink the size of the file.
Luckily, I made a very cool tool to make this easy to do with www.npmjs.com/package/glyp....
Luckily, I made a very cool tool to make this easy to do with www.npmjs.com/package/glyp....
glyphripper
A command-line tool for subsetting and converting fonts to web-friendly formats while preserving variable font features. Latest version: 1.0.0, last published: a few seconds ago. Start using…
www.npmjs.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One of the easiest things you can do to speed up your site is subset your custom fonts. This means getting rid of any characters you may or may not need to dramatically shrink the size of the file.
Luckily, I made a very cool tool to make this easy to do with www.npmjs.com/package/glyp....
Luckily, I made a very cool tool to make this easy to do with www.npmjs.com/package/glyp....
Ever thought about how your website or app impacts the environment? Digital products consume energy—from servers to the devices accessing them. Digital sustainability creates tech that minimizes environmental impact while maximizing business value.
#DigitalSustainability #GreenTech #SmartDesign
#DigitalSustainability #GreenTech #SmartDesign
March 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Ever thought about how your website or app impacts the environment? Digital products consume energy—from servers to the devices accessing them. Digital sustainability creates tech that minimizes environmental impact while maximizing business value.
#DigitalSustainability #GreenTech #SmartDesign
#DigitalSustainability #GreenTech #SmartDesign
Curious to know how you can make greener software? The Green Software Foundation has put together an incredible resource of patterns for Web, Cloud Architecture and AI/LLM work. You'll be very happy to know there's a lot of easy wins. Most you get out of the box! patterns.greensoftware.foundation
Green Software Patterns | Green Software Patterns
An online open-source database of green software patterns reviewed and curated by the Green Software Foundation
patterns.greensoftware.foundation
February 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Curious to know how you can make greener software? The Green Software Foundation has put together an incredible resource of patterns for Web, Cloud Architecture and AI/LLM work. You'll be very happy to know there's a lot of easy wins. Most you get out of the box! patterns.greensoftware.foundation
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Just in case you needed a reminder. Canadian billionaire and Shopify CEO, Tobi Lutke, is a garbage person and is siding with Trump. #cdnpoli
nypost.com/2025/02/02/u...
nypost.com/2025/02/02/u...
CEO of Canada’s 2nd biggest company defends Trump’s tariff demands, slams Trudeau for not stopping trade war
“These are things that every Canadian wants its government to do, too. These are not crazy demands, even if they came from an unpopular source,” Tobi Lutke, who co-founded Shopify, said…
nypost.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just in case you needed a reminder. Canadian billionaire and Shopify CEO, Tobi Lutke, is a garbage person and is siding with Trump. #cdnpoli
nypost.com/2025/02/02/u...
nypost.com/2025/02/02/u...
Americans. What are you going to do about it? Like, why aren’t you fighting back?
February 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Americans. What are you going to do about it? Like, why aren’t you fighting back?
America. What the eff man. We’re your buds and have always had your backs. With love. With support. Not only are you going to hurt your economy (and ours), but you’re hurting your friends who did absolutely nothing to you.
This sucks. For no reason.
This sucks. For no reason.
February 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
America. What the eff man. We’re your buds and have always had your backs. With love. With support. Not only are you going to hurt your economy (and ours), but you’re hurting your friends who did absolutely nothing to you.
This sucks. For no reason.
This sucks. For no reason.
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January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Ok so like. Time to start talking about this digital sustainability thingy. Basically, every transaction of data we make online requires energy from a potentially non-renewable resource. So like, let’s solve that with design. We all want the simplest, best experiences.
reallygood.work
reallygood.work
A digital studio that builds excellent websites and apps that are better for the earth.
Really Good Work is a digital studio that specializes in sustainable web and app development, strategy and design.
reallygood.work
January 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Ok so like. Time to start talking about this digital sustainability thingy. Basically, every transaction of data we make online requires energy from a potentially non-renewable resource. So like, let’s solve that with design. We all want the simplest, best experiences.
reallygood.work
reallygood.work
I’m open sourcing coralUI because automating UI design and development handoff is not as important as saving the earth.
I’m going all in on digital sustainability. More to come soon on that.
In the meantime, here’s the core library, the Figma plugin and the playground. github.com/Coral-UI/core
I’m going all in on digital sustainability. More to come soon on that.
In the meantime, here’s the core library, the Figma plugin and the playground. github.com/Coral-UI/core
GitHub - Coral-UI/core
Contribute to Coral-UI/core development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’m open sourcing coralUI because automating UI design and development handoff is not as important as saving the earth.
I’m going all in on digital sustainability. More to come soon on that.
In the meantime, here’s the core library, the Figma plugin and the playground. github.com/Coral-UI/core
I’m going all in on digital sustainability. More to come soon on that.
In the meantime, here’s the core library, the Figma plugin and the playground. github.com/Coral-UI/core
A reminder that if you have Tesla stocks, even if you don’t agree with him or the new administration, you’re complicit. Get rid of those things immediately.
January 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A reminder that if you have Tesla stocks, even if you don’t agree with him or the new administration, you’re complicit. Get rid of those things immediately.
Holy moly America. What a day you’ve had. Remember to breathe.
January 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Holy moly America. What a day you’ve had. Remember to breathe.
Life update:
I’m pausing work on CoralUI and will make the library source code public for all to use.
I’m going to be leaning harder into digital sustainability as a focus helping others incorporate greener practices into their businesses.
There’s never been a better time for us all to win. 🏆
I’m pausing work on CoralUI and will make the library source code public for all to use.
I’m going to be leaning harder into digital sustainability as a focus helping others incorporate greener practices into their businesses.
There’s never been a better time for us all to win. 🏆
January 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Life update:
I’m pausing work on CoralUI and will make the library source code public for all to use.
I’m going to be leaning harder into digital sustainability as a focus helping others incorporate greener practices into their businesses.
There’s never been a better time for us all to win. 🏆
I’m pausing work on CoralUI and will make the library source code public for all to use.
I’m going to be leaning harder into digital sustainability as a focus helping others incorporate greener practices into their businesses.
There’s never been a better time for us all to win. 🏆
Reposted by Drew Minns
Friends! I've decided to go back to FTE and need your help finding good opportunities.
I want to work on web apps again on a great team.
I can do product or platform work, am great at React & TS, but happy to grow outside that bubble for the right thing.
DMs are open!
I want to work on web apps again on a great team.
I can do product or platform work, am great at React & TS, but happy to grow outside that bubble for the right thing.
DMs are open!
January 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Friends! I've decided to go back to FTE and need your help finding good opportunities.
I want to work on web apps again on a great team.
I can do product or platform work, am great at React & TS, but happy to grow outside that bubble for the right thing.
DMs are open!
I want to work on web apps again on a great team.
I can do product or platform work, am great at React & TS, but happy to grow outside that bubble for the right thing.
DMs are open!
I’ve replaced the annual Band Of Brothers holiday marathon with a Dune marathon. Gimme that lore.
December 31, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I’ve replaced the annual Band Of Brothers holiday marathon with a Dune marathon. Gimme that lore.
I used to think that finding a niche was finding the thing people would want, and adapting your offerings to it. I know now that your niche can be you and what you’re really fucking good at. Authenticity is your niche. No one can be you, so sell the hell out of that. 💁
December 30, 2024 at 7:22 PM
I used to think that finding a niche was finding the thing people would want, and adapting your offerings to it. I know now that your niche can be you and what you’re really fucking good at. Authenticity is your niche. No one can be you, so sell the hell out of that. 💁
My son is the only reason that I didn’t give up this year. Hands down the hardest year mentally I’ve ever had.
December 18, 2024 at 1:56 PM
My son is the only reason that I didn’t give up this year. Hands down the hardest year mentally I’ve ever had.