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/...

One of the final features I'm working on before releasing the sugarcube alpha out into the wild is what I'm calling 'mixes'. You'll probably (hopefully) get it just by looking at it:

just released this! i now have a shared network of lamps between playhtml.fun and my personal website spencer.place should i make a lamp webring next? each person has a different lamp on their website & they are all connected..

Just out here trying to blur code into UI and UI into code

reposts appreciated, I'd love to meet some new 3&3 people. Context: 3-3.fyi

Absolutely loving Leaflet so far. If you're interested in thoughts about some of my favourite poems that exist in books that probably only ever had 10 readers and are no doubt now out of print, well, you're in luck (and weird). loanwords.leaflet.pub/3lyyjrxuphs2g

I just stumbled upon this old post from @heydonworks.com about CSS-in-JS: medium.com/@Heydon/css-.... I must say I had a good laugh reading it and maybe even more reading the comments 🙈

Sugarcube conforms to the DTCG format spec for maximum interoperability (among other things). It’s exciting to see the spec evolve and makes me even more bullish about design tokens as the basis for optimised and creative design-dev workflows

Color lovers, I've got a new tool for you to convert, generate and explore OKLCH colors: oklch.fyi/ I like being able to tweak a whole color ramp, adapting chroma to make it more or less vibrant.

‼️ Friends, please pay attention: grep -r "const _0x112" node_modules if you found it, don't panic: update dependency remove npm cache

12 years of PostCSS → 400M+ downloads/month. Lessons from the journey: collaborate early with other maintainers, keep libraries build-free for easier debugging, and focus on simplicity. Great read on OSS longevity 🌟 #OpenSource evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

Saw an interesting comment by someone. Clicked their profile. Saw that they built this: relisten.net. Now listening to hours of fugazi concerts. Thanks, @saewitz.com

Underrated way to improve your CSS is to patiently read through @css-only.dev's stack overflow posts from newest to oldest

Anyone know any small studios or independent designers who have experience with developer-facing products? Looking for brand design, mainly

Istanbul tip: take the ferry whenever possible.

The old read cv discover page was my go-to for design inspiration and for finding interesting creators to follow. I'm starved for exposure to creative work now. What is the best alternative? Do I have to sign up to arena or whatever it's called?

📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th... It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.

If design tokens become more popular in frontend development - which I think they will once the theming and architectural benefits become more obvious over time - people will naturally begin to hit up against the limits of utility frameworks

Playing around with tailwind's oxide engine and stumbled on this: Website text content like 'hidden' gets scanned and generates .hidden { display: none }. So if you write a blog post with the word 'hidden' in it, congratulations, you just wrote some CSS

We're now accepting guest authors on Piccalilli! Up to now, we've reached out to guest authors, but we have the systems in place now to ensure quality. Of course, we pay writers too. piccalil.li/guest-author...

I don't suppose I know any Rust developers on here? If you're a Rust dev I'd love to pick your brain about something

Happy with the way the new CLI is coming along. Instead of overwhelming users with a bajillion prompts, it auto detects and follows the recommended path. Pass flags like `--skip plugin` or `--styles-dir custom-dir` to take back control etc.

The video component on the JavaScript for Everyone page is 10/10 satisfying to look at and use. piccalil.li/javascript-f... The actual video itself certainly makes this a tempting purchase!

Pre-orders for JavaScript for Everyone are available now. Get a pre-order copy for £149, saving £100 off the full price of £249 for two weeks only. Pre-orders close again after August 26, 2025. piccalilli.link/js4e-pre-ord...

Constantly surprised that my chill refactor that felt like it removed 1000s of lines actually added +500

The pattern seems to be: 1) encounter problem beyond meagre powers; 2) gnash teeth and give up (this part lasts days and is beyond painful); 3) return and start noodling without any hope or clear plan; 4) noodle some more; 5) start to see a way through

"The battle over AI, algorithmic governance, and corporate-state control is not merely a debate about technology—it is a battle over the very conditions of political life and of democracy." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

I have a new article out on @frontendmasters.com: get the number of auto-fit/ auto-fill columns in #CSS frontendmasters.com/blog/count-a... Check it out, I can assure you you'll probably learn something new. At the very least that some issues have recently been fixed... 😼

happy eve of the almost half year (which would be july 1, I am a month late)! I wanted to invite folks to drop their renewed intentions here linkdump.connie.surf/untilnewyear they will fade and linger here until the true new year 🎐