UI
Design Systems
Building Bennie-UI: a year of shipping a small design system
in progress
Building
small things,
in the open.
I'm Carlos Bolaños. I tinker on the odd weekend experiment — component libraries, Go scaffolding, small observability tools. Everything here is open-source.
6
Open-source repos
10+
Years shipping
Go·TS
Daily drivers
Currently shipping
Seven projects in active development. Click any card to jump to the repo — merge requests welcome.
PROJECT / 01
● LiveBennie-UI
A React component library built on PandaCSS. Buttons, inputs, toasts, tables, headings — all tokenized, themable, and typed. Used to build this site.
React·TypeScript·PandaCSS
Repo →PROJECT / 02
● LiveGitLab Components
Reusable GitLab CI/CD building blocks — Remix + Cloudflare Pages deploys (components-remix) and Go services on DigitalOcean (components-go).
GitLab CI·Bun·Wrangler
Repo →PROJECT / 03
● Livego-ajax
Opinionated Go project scaffolding. Spin up a production-ready HTTP service with config, logging, middleware, tests, and Docker in seconds.
Go·Mux·Docker
Repo →PROJECT / 04
● Livego-ajax-telemetry
Drop-in middleware that instruments every gorilla/mux route with Prometheus metrics: request counts, latency histograms, status-code labels. Zero config.
Go·Prometheus·Metrics
Repo →PROJECT / 05
● WIPgo-snacks
Small, composable Go utilities I reach for daily.
Go
Repo →PROJECT / 06
● WIPquery-builder
A type-safe SQL query builder for Go without an ORM.
Go·SQL
Repo →PROJECT / 07
● ForeverNeoVim Config
My personal nvim setup. Always evolving.
Lua·nvim
Repo →What I'm into right now
The short list — what's on my screen today.
01
Design systems in the terminal
Pushing Bennie-UI past the browser. Exploring how tokens can compile to TUIs, print stylesheets, and native widgets from the same source.
Latest posts
Quick reads on Go, React, and the craft of shipping. Drafts in progress.