Rob Hameetman
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Rob Hameetman
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┝━━━━━┥ Staff Design Engineer, expert in:
│ ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ │ #DesignSystems #MicroFrontends #DeveloperExperience
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Absolutely! I'd love to learn more about your approach to design systems.
September 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A serious UI library should have as much control over how it renders as possible. Think of how Apple succeeds by controlling the hardware. It's a lot like that.
September 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Design systems like Spectrum take on so much overhead just doing stuff on top of React that should really be baked in (e.g. "focus-visible" events, React Native-style Press events, etc.)
September 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🧵 Someone asked me what the first thing I'd do is and my unpopular answer is this:

I'd build a custom JSX pipeline.
September 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
That's great to hear! Your background with Shopify could be very valuable for what I have in mind.
September 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
web components, astro, probably supabase or clerk for auth, stripe (and potentially klarna) for payments. tailwind if it's a rush to market, plain css if I can build it the right way
September 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
August 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM