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Clarity Conference

It was an honor to be part of the first ever Clarity Conference in San Francisco – a beautiful event organized by Jina, and completely focused on Style Guides.

It was an honor to be part of the first ever Clarity Conference in San Francisco – a beautiful event organized by Jina, and completely focussed on Style Guides.

Chris Coyier and Brad Frost both posted extensive notes on all the speakers, and I recommend reading them.

I talked about the code patterns we use to represent design patterns, especially in our front-end Sass, HTML (Jinja?), and JavaScript code.

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