There’s few folks as reliable, thoughtful, and no-nonsense as @bell.bz. I’ve known him a long time and I don’t endorse people lightly. If you’re looking for a studio/agency to get your project going, I couldn’t recommend Set.Studio enough: set.studio

For the hundredth time I’ve ended up with an unnecessary 1000 words on a complete tangent. And it came out so easily.

I'm also contractually obliged to share that my course is part of the @piccalil.li Black Friday deal. Get mine and get Mindful Design or JavaScript for Everyone with your 50% coupon and again, I'm contractually obliged to let you know I'll love you forever. piccalil.li/complete-css/

Our Black Friday deals are now live! 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. piccalilli.link/black-friday...

My NO, SERIOUSLY, FUCK ENGAGEMENT talk from Axe-con is now live, along with the Q&A! youtu.be/sfbCHALEyP4?...

📣 Hear hear! The biggest savings on the Practical Accessibility course start *today*—for a limited time only. Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.

The good people at @deque.com have put my #axe-con 2025 presentation, Design for Everyone, live for all! (With captions and ASL.) This is one of my favourite talks. It covers accessible and rights-respecting design, sort of a culmination of many of my other talks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAL7...

Have you checked out our UI Course yet? If so… here’s your next challenge: design the typography for a magazine or news article in Penpot! Show us your magic in our community space ✨ community.penpot.app/t/assignment...

I'm happy to share that I've written a chapter for a book called Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, to be published on 26 March 2026: www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce... #DigitalAccessibilityEthics

🚨 Announcing All Day Hey! 2026. Celebrating ten years of the conference. The final one. Let's go! A curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders.

I’m at #Converge! Very excited to sit and learn from some fabulous talks today. Thank you to @zeroheight.com, @bencallahan.com and @penpot.app for bringing me here to Bristol so last minute. If you want to talk #Penpot, come find me before I manage to completely rub my name off my badge.

Here’s s small talk I gave some weeks ago as part of @penpot.app fest 2025 🥰🫶🏻 “We fixed it on Main” youtu.be/F4_Tgkd-vRc?...

If you missed Penpot Fest a few weeks ago, many of the talks are already live on @penpot.app’s Peertube peertube.kaleidos.net/w/p/ax41QLcz...

The next unit for the UI Design with @penpot.app course is now out! It’s Text & Typography, and I’m sorry I’m a bit late in telling you… penpot.app/courses

I should say I haven’t had any of these issues working with the Penpot team. I often notice the particular respect and empathy the Kaleidos folks have for each other. And I’ve been touched by times they’ve listened to me and taken actions to look out for me.

A kind person just reminded me this video exists. 10 years ago I recorded a 4 minute video on why women leave the tech industry. 10 years later, I still stand by everything I said, and I’m so frustrated at how little the working environment has changed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0v...

I’m weirdly getting a lot of unsolicited emails from real people to my Gmail account. It’s a custom domain, it’s not listed publicly anywhere. Does Google make you discoverable in this way if a person knows your name? Feels off. (It’s a work email, Gmail not my choice!)

Penpot Fest is kicking off now! You can join in and watch live at penpot.app/penpotfest #penpotFest #penpot #opensource

Just one day to go!!! We couldn’t be more excited! 😍 🤩See you tomorrow! And if you can’t attend in person, don’t worry, we’ll be broadcasting live🔴 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ penpot.app/penpotfest

In just one week we’ll be enjoying Penpot Fest and its amazing keynotes and workshops! 🎉 Last chance to grab your ticket! penpot.app/penpotfest/s...

I’ve made a free template for component variants and it’s now up in the Penpot Hub. Import the file to see how simple and complex components can utilise variants (including using design tokens!) penpot.app/penpothub/li... #Penpot #OpenSource

Live in 10 minutes!

Variants have landed in @penpot.app and tomorrow I’m doing a live hands-on demo to get you up to date. I’ll also cover some component basics and design tokens goodness. Join me at 2PM UTC for live Q&A. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuT... #Penpot

Next week! And yes, that’s right, variants! Join me live… www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuT...

Bitmaps are images saved at a fixed resolution. Vectors are paths that can be scaled to any size while keeping the same resolution. Learn UI design with our free Penpot course: https://penpot.app/courses/block-1/use-booleans-to-create-complex-shapes/

One month til #PenpotFest! We’ll be topping off Day 2 with a panel on collaboration with the fabulous Catina, Layshi and Glória. Join us in person! penpot.app/penpotfest

When you notice blurry boards in Penpot, it’s a performance feature. You can usually get a sharper rendering of all your boards by selecting the board or zooming in. Learn UI design with our free Penpot course: penpot.app/courses/bloc...

Please stop inheriting the box-model. The supposed use-case for that is extremely out-dated, inheritance doesn't really help, and it actively makes real box-sizing use-cases more difficult! This #CSS best practice was never the best to begin with: www.oddbird.net/2025/09/04/b...

Friends! Join me next month in Madrid for #PenpotFest. I’ve got a fun new talk (and more!) planned. Looking forward to nerding out about @penpot.app , design, and dev in-person… penpot.app/penpotfest

JavaScript for Everyone is a course designed to teach you not just the how, but the why of JavaScript — the kind of deep-magic knowledge that can otherwise take years to develop. For the next two weeks, you can pre-order for £149, saving £100 off the full price of £249. piccalil.li/javascript-f...

If you appreciate the features I've helped develop - container queries, cascade layers, mixins & functions, scope, progress, logical shorthands - consider supporting that work though open collective: opencollective.com/oddbird-open... or hire me to teach a workshop: www.oddbird.net/talks/

Version 2 of my design tokens starter kit is now downloadable from the Penpot Hub. @penpot.app introduced support for font size tokens in last week’s 2.9 release, so I’ve added some starter tokens and demos for those. penpot.app/penpothub/li...

Tempted to do this as a refresher. Learn from the best and kindest people.

I’m still trying to work out and verbalise why I love MurderBot so much (the books and now the TV series.) But either way, I really recommend them. They’re something quite wholesome for these times.

Sunny weekend vs Rimworld Odyssey release.

I’ve spent a long time pouring the contents of my brain into this course. I’m really grateful to @penpot.app for making the course free, and for the brilliant, creative, and generous Penpot team who are bringing it to life.

Yesterday we had to say goodbye to my best friend, my fluffy shadow, my sweet grumpy companion of 13 years. Osky will always be the bestest boy. I miss him so much. Please give your dog friends extra tummy rubs and carrots from me.

⏰ Live in 15 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNq...

Live🔴 @laurakalbag.bsky.social will show you how to build a complete UI using Penpot’s design tokens in the upcoming live hands-on demo! 🗓️ Thursday, June 26th 🕑 UTC 3-4 PM (Convert to your local timezone) Stream on: PeerTube, YouTube, or LinkedIn community.penpot.app/t/ui-design-...

Now let’s do this for Designers: what do you always wish developers knew or did when you’re working together? Is there anything that really frustrates you? Something one developer did that made your work easier?

This Thursday! The chaos continues with me attempting a start-to-finish mockup using Penpot + design tokens. Join me live!

I made it home, after a lovely series of conferences in Europe. Good to see many of you in person. At the end of my talks, I announced (with a broken qr code) that I'm working on a #CSS course: Designing with Code. Subscribe for updates if you're interested! oddbird.dev/learn/course...

A useful approach whether you’re a MurderBot or not.

Do you want to learn how to design more accessible products, in a chill, remote, 2.5 hours a day, over 4 days format? My hands-on @smashingconf.com workshop starts in 2 weeks! More details (and a registration coupon) in the thread

The first Penpot Fest speakers are in! Meet them in person in Madrid (Oct 8–10) at this celebration of design, code, and open source. Hurry! Early Bird tickets are available until June 9. penpot.app/penpotfest#t...

Correcting my own captions. Reckoning with my ability to communicate.

Thank you so much for joining us yesterday at Penpot After Hours London! It was such a blast to meet you all and have great conversations! We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

You asked, we delivered!🫶 Design tokens starter kit by @laurakalbag.bsky.social Explore how different token types can be applied, try out the design tokens for yourself, or use this starter kit as a starting point for your own design system.I Let us know your feedback😍 penpot.app/penpothub/li...

Wrote up a little reflection on the launch and what’s next for Design Tokens in @penpot.app community.penpot.app/t/what-s-nex...

I created a design tokens starter kit for @penpot.app and it’s now downloadable from the Penpot Hub. If you try it, please let me know any feedback or feature requests. I’ll keep updating it for future Penpot releases. penpot.app/penpothub/li... #designTokens #penpot #openSource #foss