We're hiring another design advocate - apply.workable.com/zeroheight/j... If you're looking for a role where you get to write about design systems, talk about design systems, tinker with design systems stuff, and team up with other companies to do some cool shit around AI and design systems... 👀

Last year, I posted about an incredible event in 2023: a megatsunami in Greenland triggering an initially baffling 9-day seismic pulse across the whole planet & a terrific piece of collaborative international scientific detective-work. Now there's a sequel. And holy hell, it's even BIGGER. 1/

Delighted to see a win for Lib Dems in Chichester North in the County Council elections. westsussex.moderngov.co.uk/mgElectionAr...

We're still rolling out the recommendations throughout the day, working as fast as we can to get the tactical voting advice needed to stop Reform into the right hands! stopreformuk.vote

The Mindful Design Toolkit is a collection of free, open source templates, workshops, and resources, built to empower your design journey. To coincide with the launch, we’ve also opened up over two hours of free lessons from the Mindful Design course. piccalil.li/links/the-mi...

Change is entirely possible.

As a fan of three (formerly) local football teams who all play in green (Plymouth Argyle, St Blazey AFC and Yeovil Town), it pleases me no end to cheer "COOME OOON YOOOOOUU GREEENS" this morning.

grab yourself a nice chonky discount on all the @piccalil.li premium courses which of course includes the very premium and very good mindful design video course. piccalil.li/courses

To celebrate the brand new piccalil.li homepage, we're knocking 20% off all courses throughout the rest of February and 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

I believe in the web, I believe in craft, and I believe in the things we can build by supporting each other — never has that spirit felt more threatened by the _industry_. If you feel the same way: support independent publishers. Keep building, keep improving, and keep sharing, in your own voice.

Reading @scott.is's Q&A article for Mindful Design whilst planning some marketing stuff for @piccalil.li and some of these answers are like therapy for my perfectionist brain. piccalil.li/blog/a-qanda...

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

In this @theguardian.com article, you can enter postcodes for your local retail area to compare business vacancies to the national average. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

"I write to you haunted. Or, perhaps, I am doing the haunting. These days I'm scarcely able to tell the difference" I've been so taken with this project that I was truly moved when @likethecolour.red & @strange.website asked if I might like to contribute. An absolute pleasure to write with them

https://designbeyondbarriers.com Nice Accessibility Guide made by Anton&Irene

A friend of mine is launching a really cool app for artists and illustrators on Product Hunt today. If you have time to check it out and give it an upvote, it would be appreciated! www.producthunt.com/products/val...

Extremely powerful piece

I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work. I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok. I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞

Drop your RSS feeds in the replies so people (including me) can find them 👇

Hell yes @bell.bz. bell.bz/wrapping-up-...

Artists, assemble!

One idea that really struck me in @scott.is's MindFul Design course is the idea of designing spaces that ebb and flow between open exploration and focused guidance. Let's be honest most of the internet "boring as shit" (to quote Scott). Maybe that's because we got obsessed with focus and efficiency?

“It accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire.” This is an important piece of writing.

To be yourself is the highest form of protest

Earth is angry

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

One of the worst things about communicating online is that what we put out there is indefinite. But I am a paradox. I am complete and yet unfinished. I want to be able to change my mind every now and then.

There are now just TWO tickets remaining before the price increases. Snap them up quick 🏃 Help us go out with a bang and join on a journey through new techniques, accessibility, web animation, and human connection in a world of increasingly weird and wonderful AI. ti.to/hey-presents...

This changed the mental model I had around CSS layout. Total bargain!

Play it loud open.spotify.com/track/5ihLTi...

This film if from 1976 and it's hard to overstate how much all of this applies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug

With the news that the US wants to have five years of your social media history allow me to remind you of the tool I built to scrub your skeets

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

we have to build thousands of small websites we love and enjoy in order to beat back the ~10 websites that have transformed this miracle of a communications layer into a compromised nightmare btw release your projects !!!

Highly recommend picking one of these up whilst they’re still available. I’ll be putting mine to good use at work tomorrow.

2/3 Sign the petition over at @avaaz.org calling on the EU to break up Google’s monopoly over digital advertising and dismantle the excessive power of Big Tech: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

My eyes are a little red and my heart is ringing after spending some time with this. Like someone rung a bell in the room before I walked in and there's this beautiful resonance I can't quite place.

This is it: today is the last day where you can save £60 on any @piccalil.li course, and get yourself a 50% discount code for future ones. If you've still got professional development budget kicking around, grab a copy of JavaScript for Everyone. It'll pay off. piccalil.li/black-friday/

Not many websites can stop you in your tracks and get you to spend a good 20 minutes taking it in.

I've been working my way through this course end to end and there is so much in it. Incredible depth, love the way the science is made digestible and the ethics of it all. I'm biased, because I work for @piccalil.li but I mean every word. Now please buy the course so @scott.is can earn that rest! 😆

⚠️ There's only four days left to save £60 on Mindful Design and get a 50% discount coupon, just for buying the course! ⚠️️ Our brand new design course’s launch price of £189 ends on December 9. Your 50% discount coupon can be used at any time. piccalilli.link/md-launch-4-...

This is one of those albums that grows and grows the more I listen. open.spotify.com/album/3GJ7F5...

Mat has recorded an advert for you, but it's not any old advert…

No words for how I feel about this

Tears of joy watching this

can't get over how good a writer @wil.to is. these free lessons are golden, and so fun to read that i forgot i was learning. in a good way. i think. piccalil.li/links/the-en...

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Up to £90,000 already. A few hours ago @zackpolanski.bsky.social posted that the campaign had passed £10,000. Hope is gaining momentum.

This module has so far been one of the most useful to people taking JavaScript for Everyone, so we made it free so you can get an idea of how good Mat is at teaching JavaScript. Maybe it’ll convince you to get the whole course 👀 piccalil.li/links/the-en...