Exciting news—Clack v1.0 is here! 🎉 🫳 Dropped CJS distribution (the only breaking change) 🆕 Added autocomplete, taskLog, and more 🌏 Localization support 🐞 Dozens of bug fixes + performance improvements 🤗 Ecosystem alignment This release marks stable support for our current APIs

One of the hardest features of @sugarcube.sh to try to get right has been utility class generation. Someone pushed me early on to make it a priority and I'm glad they did as it's one of my favourite parts of the tool.

White racist literally threw a bomb at black people to kill them, apparently not a sufficient cause to have a moral panic, special envoy, national introspection, royal commission, terrorism declaration, new laws, 1,000 op-eds in The Australian. We're struggling to identify why that might be.

Everything is cooked and yet there is so little to eat.

Designing directly in the browser with design tokens is proving quite a fun workflow (even if my design skills remain...fledgling).

Jumped on here and saw references to 'W'. Immediately slipped into a fantasy that Georges Perec was trending.

Would you like to work with me? 👋🏻 I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team at Kesko and we’re looking for a nice & talented designer/developer to join us. arielsalminen.com/2026/hiring-...

Announcing Design Token Sets in Engramma: global token categories that separate foundational, semantic, and component specific design tokens without polluting generated CSS variable names. --foundation-colors-blue → --colors-blue --semantic-colors-primary → --colors-primary

Been playing around with this since yesterday and it's really fun, clever, and useful! Looks like it could be a good way to get passively exposed to other people's creative projects, which is something I've really missed since read.cv was sunset.

thanks to a tidy little PR by our old friend @bell.bz, personalsit.es now has /random, in case you just want to let the Old Gods of Digital Fate take the reins of thy chariot have a look 👁️ ↪ personalsit.es/random

Screw it, hacked something together last night. I'll be iterating on it when I'm bored. If you want to review fragrances in real-time, tracking from first to final impression instead of from memory or on paper, try it out. It’s *rough*, but it works. drydown.social

If I’ve been remiss in liking your posts, or sending you something I owe you, it’s because I am recovering from very unexpected (but very successful) surgery and the doctors decreed no computers for two weeks. Liking and sending to resume when fully recovered!

Yet another side project of a side project. Mostly because I needed a clean way to export palettes from my other tools to Tailwind. I’m getting a lot of feature requests for the tool itself: happy to tackle those at some point™. For now, I’m heading back to Polaris. meodai.github.io/dittoTones/

Gave marktomlinson.dev a tiny refresh for the first time this...*checks logs*...decade 😬 I've met some really nice people on Bluesky this year. I thought refreshing the site might be a way to show a bit more about me personally. Thanks if you check it out!

Website with a sticky footer reveal: sous les pavés, la plage.

This has been a constant companion the last five years and is a steal at that price.

I’ve been working on something quietly for a while. Today it steps into the open. It’s called Faro, a space where I’m sharing ideas that shaped my work across brand, design, content, engineering, and systems thinking.

Obsessively polishing the DX for my 0 users. They have all told me they are very appreciative. Seriously though, this actually might change soon! Someone randomly messaged the other day asking if they could try sugarcube for a client project. I almost cried.

Just got per-token-collection virtual modules to resolve and load correctly and this will mean absolutely nothing to anyone but I'm so relieved I'm posting regardless.

Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies

Had this idea to go film something in the countryside but Melbourne traffic at all times is such that I cannot ever under any circumstances leave my house.

Do you actually like designing systems or do you just have anxiety?

The benefits of learning CSS well are underplayed in the industry. I’ve seen clients as well as teams suffer, all because the foundations weren’t there. What you’ll learn in Andy’s CSS course - or working with Set directly - is the best antidote to that I know.

Mindful Design is here! You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50 That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses! piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...

What are some recent sites you've seen and liked that incorporate 3D elements?

What a super lovely shoutout. Leaflet crew clearly as nice as what they’re building

Sharing the ASCII link hover ripple from my tiny folio. Plain JS, minimal CSS, layout‑safe for long labels. Demo: codepen.io/erevan/pen/M...

Now I know there’s some great engineers out there who would love to work on storybook, but did yall know they’re hiring? www.chromatic.com/company/care...

Our Black Friday deals are simple this year: save £60 on *all courses* and everyone who buys a course during this period will be given a coupon code that they can use to get a 50% discount off future course purchases at any time. Deals start on November 25 and run for 2 weeks!

AI startups compete not on innovation or value to society but on the subtlety of their bg surface tints

Hey man what have you been up to the last six months? Oh, you know, styling form controls just normal stuff.

My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.

Lost an entire 12 hours to what turned out to be a chrome regression. I'm going to bed.

Breakthrough 🤯 You're seeing - ALL my @leaflet.pub articles 📄 - from ALL my Leaflet publications 📚 on my 🚧 new site (in dev) 🙀 that's - version-controlled w/ @tangled.org 😳 - (soon) hosted w/ @nekomimi.pet's wisp.place 😱 EVERY PART is stored in my #PDS 🫠 #ATproto is the future!!! WTF 💙

This by the ed.studio crew is such tidy dev/design work: ausify.com.au Just wish I were young enough to know some of the bands.

Did some Framer plugin development for a client thing recently. First time looking at Framer in detail and wow the costs for anything that's not a toy project seem insane.

Back in March, @pedropeguerojr.com and I hosted our first meetup for @3-3.fyi. Our next meetup will be the first time that we *don't* have someone give a presentation. I want to highlight the great presentations we got this year because they have been *really* fucking good. 🧵 1/?

Now that the @designtokens.org format specification has reached its first, *stable* version, I decided to have a look back at my own journey of getting involved in the DTCG and contributing to that spec... cirrus.twiddles.com/blog/2025/10... #DesignTokens #DesignSystems #standards

It's not every day you see someone else get THIS excited about the Design Tokens Specification. To celebrate, here's a screenshot of some WIP landing page copy I'm working on for sugarcube - a toolkit for building DTCG-token-powered websites. Actual nice-looking website coming soon 😅

First stable version of the DTCG spec is out: www.designtokens.org Congrats and thank you @designtokens.org. Going to get to work on support for the resolver module for my lil tool. Moving modes/themes out of the tool's config file is going to make me very happy.

sign up for the linkdump waitlist and drop your favorite link! I promise to send only (1) email when it is done. linkdump.connie.surf/waitlist.html

Lovely design people, especially posts.cv alum: What are some processes a non-designer could follow when faced with having to design, say, a landing page? Do you do brand work up front or does it emerge organically? Do you start on one component and let the design language emerge or...?

still thinking about this adam phillips piece on resistance. "Psychoanalysis begins when conversation breaks down, where the conversation becomes impossible, where there is a reluctance to go on speaking, a pause, a hesitation, a wilful changing of the subject." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Writing the documentation for sugarcube has been...a struggle. Managed to get most of the utility class docs written up this weekend, though. Just another million topics to cover and I'll be done.

✂️ Are you working in a medium/large non-profit public codebase that could use a good cleanup, but not sure how to start using Knip? Feel free to reach out! Happy to assist setting things up, and it'll improve Knip in return ♻️

Another @leaflet.pub that includes some writing about poetry! And it's good writing at that. cafe.catabush.com/3m3bi5hdsbk2n

Looks like I'll be coming to the end of a contract shortly so will have availability for new projects from later this month Give me a shout if you're on the lookout for frontend dev or design systems work and particularly if you're looking for animations, interactions or anything a bit experimental

This is it. 86,791 words. 836 emdashes. 625 `const`, 141 `let`, 16 `var`. One (1) reference to the pause music from Battletoads for the NES. Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.

Just came down with my annual bout of conference envy. So once again, I ask you, which conference should I fly 24hrs to attend?

The September @3-3.fyi when out this morning. If you missed it, DM me and I can forward you a copy. If you're new & curious, you can check out what was in August's issue here: www.are.na/three-three/...