A better reduced-motion: dissolves beat silence
Killing animation outright creates dead UI. The alternative we ship — fade, highlight, color-shift — is opt-in, semantic, WCAG-friendly.
Why we bet on CSS Cascade Layers (and never wrote !important again)
Specificity wars are a design-system killer. Layers flatten the cascade, make overrides trivial, and let contributors ship without reviewer fatigue.
Ren Soconese
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Apr 14, 2026
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A11y
Tokens
Semantic spacing: the layer between scale and component
Why --space-card-padding beats --space-6 in every place that matters, and how to migrate without breaking what already ships.
Components
Native
Native <dialog> is 90% of what you need
Top-layer. Backdrop. ESC-to-close. Focus trap. Modern browsers ship a dialog that's almost perfect — the last 10% is one line of CSS.
Theming
How
How light-dark() killed our theme provider
One CSS function. Zero JS. Zero FOUC. The browser already knows what the user wants — stop fighting it with localStorage hacks.
Layouts
Every Layout, revisited: the ten primitives we actually use
Stack, Cluster, Sidebar, Cover, Frame, Reel. An old idea, sharpened. Here's the API that replaced 80% of our custom flex and grid.
Release
RenDS 0.8: 24 new components, sharper tokens, real templates
Tanda 3 closes the catalog: every primitive, composite, and pattern is now documented. Plus a refreshed templates section and a tighter token layer.