Oh and more spec-friendly approach to fluid space & type, too.

I built a visual explainer of the CSS Cascade, the algorithm that determines the "winning value" from a list of competing declarations. It's built on work by @bram.us and @miriam.codes. cascade.arpit.codes I wrote about how it came together on my blog: arpit.blog/notes/2026/0...

If you're learning programming skills: Igalia is taking applications for a program paying you to work on open source 💰 Fully paid grant program 📆 450 hours of work with a mentor from June 📍Global remote program 🎓 Open to students or self-directed learners 🚨 Applications close April 3rd!

Cannot wait to build with this and learn from it. Can tell a lot of care and expertise has gone into it.

Weekend project: a minimal CV builder. Recruiters often only look the first page, so I added compact print styles.

Ah man @sugarcube.sh users giving me too many cool things to implement! Early adopters helping enormously.

maybe you don’t need that bot or that MCP server or that latest LLM model, maybe you just need to have a conversation with one (1) other human

Carcassonne.

Friday arvo here so experimenting with something delicious. Basically, utopia.fyi but in your tokens.

that's part of it. but there are also core aspects of the web (esp html & css) that were already too invisible: cross-browser/device support & a11y. It's not enough to care about "outcomes" when you think everyone has the same experience as you. Many care about craft **because of the outcomes**

Did you know you can help shape the direction of @sugarcube.sh? Think it's missing a vital feature? Open a feature request (or just ping me on here) like this lovely person did: github.com/sugarcube-sh...

This is partly why I've been so excited about building code-first infrastructure for design system work. The ultimate vision is to take it even further. Tools for both developers AND designers to work comfortably *within* that code-first infrastructure.

In 2012 I worked for a year on Reunion Island. I thought it would be so easy to return but freaking life isn't like that.

Judging on the Australian Web Awards this year: webawards.com.au I know I don't have a lot of Australian followers but there are some excellent studios doing excellent work down here. I'll post some of the winners once they're announced!

Just a reminder, we're knocking 20% off all courses throughout March. Use code NEXTLEVEL to save 20% and get some high quality education, written by humans *for* humans. PPP discounts also available. piccalil.li/courses

Trying a new app launcher just to feel something.

Absurd the amount of joy it gives me to hear that @sugarcube.sh is helping people. Thanks @finell.dev!

Log on to LinkedIn and the smackdown is brutal: learn AI or perish immediately! Work weekends and nights if you have to! Dear developers, I'm sorry but you're worthless now! Can we go back to when it was just me telling me I'm worthless?

Today, the bad news bear got me. My contract with Disney will be ending in April instead of June. I am actively looking for a Senior UX/Product Designer with full-time opportunities in healthcare, biotech, or ed-tech. I appreciate your support and connections. Thank you.💛 conniechen.design

And we just submitted a grant application! Love to see this kind of thing. Fund your local open source maintainer 🙏

Happy that I now get to share my favourite drug with everyone: building shit.

Almost 3 years since editable.website won 2nd place at @sveltesociety.dev SvelteHack. Since then, I’ve been busy turning this from a prototype into something solid. A way to build CMS-free, in-place editable websites using only Svelte. This is v2. 🥳

On the never-ending quest to quell my domain name buying tendencies, I've moved the content at designtokens.fyi to tokenpedia.ds.house. This change has the opportunity to include additional design token resources in the future. Please update your bookmarks!

Recently had the chance to test the alpha release on some internal projects for @piccalil.li and @set.studio. It was an absolute dream to work with. Be sure to follow and star! ⭐

Sugarcube is now publicly available! sugarcube.sh

@taurean.bryant.land Cascade layers, getcha cascade layers here

Since they introduced drafts, I just post there now.

Implementing a watch mode for the sugarcube cli as an extra convenience and it's so much fun. The vite plugin is still the most powerful because it gives you HMR but now the cli alone is almost as delightful and works...anywhere

My contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP. I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility. I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦 Shares appreciated!

A non-negotiable of @sugarcube.sh when I started building it was that it never had to be installed into your project. It's just a CLI that generates regular CSS and copies files. Even if you install the separate Vite plugin for HMR on token/markup file changes, you can just uninstall it whenever.

Can’t emphasize this enough, but listen to your body. If you don’t feel well, don’t push it and be easy on yourself.💛

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.