See you in November Berlin! Excited to give the workshop, play some music, and meet new people!

Life with a toddler = poop + spilled coffee

Your reminder to: 1. Take a deep breath 2. Be grateful you’ve lived to take on another day. 3. Be positive and hopeful. 4. Reach out to someone. 5. Find at least 1 thing to enjoy in your life today. 6. Take another deep breath. That is all.

I’m really passionate about helping people. It’s one of the things that cuts across the disciplines I’ve worked in. If I can make a living doing that, it is something that can fill my sense-of-purpose cup while providing for my family.

Proud of the work we put into this course and more importantly the value folks have gotten from it. If you’d like to dive deep into the token landscape, we’d be happy to help!

📙 📗 📘 📕 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.

Was just showing my son his videos. He wants to go “in there.” I want to go there, too, buddy. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_I...

"Must be at least 12 characters. But, it must be at least 14 characters according to the error. Don't you dare even try 13."

1 year ago today, I played 3 hours of drums with over 30 of the most talented musicians and singers for @bradfrost.com ‘s concert Frostapalooza. Most of us had never played together until that night. The amount of joy I feel watching these videos is incredible. Such a fun night!

Feel like I am listening to the same music over and over again. Anyone have some good background/chill/funky music they are listening to lately?

Thanks @zachleat.com and @11ty.dev for the eleventy-import tool. It was super straightforward to use and I was able to get the majority of my blog posts page + single posts page built in 15 minutes as opposed to a ton of time manually writing markdown.

I’ve said it before, but I think every U.S. citizen should get a free trip to 1 national park. Places like that put life into perspective.

Slowly returning to my computer today after some time off. For those of you that live in Montana, Oregon, Alberta, and British Columbia, you live in beautiful places. It was a good reminder to embrace our surroundings.

One of my favorite movie quotes: “It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark…and we're wearing sunglasses.”

10 Years ❤️

I love dumb humor

🚀 After months of work, I'm thrilled to announce not 1, not 2, but THREE projects: 1. My new Atomic Design Certification Course is available for preorder! 2. Wake Up Excited! is my new podcast about living a creative, positive life 3. I'm relaunching my email newsletter As the kids say, LETS GOOO!

“Just Breathe” by Pearl Jam. Fingerpicking isn’t a drummer’s strong suit, so I just rolled with this.

Love living in a city that flies a giant pickle on a bridge

Our kid is obsessed with garbage trucks. These 20+ minute videos of the various ways garbage collectors dispose of trash is quite interesting.

I’ve had Mr. Big’s “To Be With You” stuck in my head all day. How’s your Monday going?

In our hometown, we celebrated Jolly July 3rd with fireworks and staticky versions of cheesy music. Now you get to celebrate with us with 25% off of our design tokens course through Monday. Sorry for not including the cheesy music.

Intro music to kid shows in the 90s were the best.

Is it really mowing the lawn if AC/DC or CCR doesn’t play in your headphones?

Dad achievement unlocked: son is making impressive fart noises by using his mouth on my shoulder.

. @ian-frost.bsky.social and I had a great time providing some design tokens therapy to @davatron5000.bsky.social and @chriscoyier.net on @shoptalkshow.com youtu.be/NS51te_wx-s

A question I ask a lot when I work on design systems: “Does this decision make maintenance a pain in the ass?”

Great podcast episode of ShopTalk Show with @bradfrost.com and @ian-frost.bsky.social to talk about design tokens and their new course. Thanks for the shout out to the new brands in Nord Design System, made possible by our design tokens.

Thinking about how amazing hiking the coast of Portugal was last month.

Looking to redesign my personal site and simplify the platform. Been a long while since I’ve updated. Thinking of using @11ty.dev to try to make @zachleat.com proud, but also was wondering if I’m missing anything else. Hoping to use my Vue DS component in a React wrapper within an Angular wrapper.

I watch this clip every time it comes up. These 3 comedy legends make me laugh so hard no matter how many times I have seen it. You feel like you’re on the couch there just watching your friends lay into each other and i love it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qpt...

Always a pleasure talking (and playing music) with @davatron5000.bsky.social and @chriscoyier.net ! @bradfrost.com and I talk about design tokens (and there may even be a discount code in there for our course!)

Your reminder to: 1. Take a deep breath 2. Be grateful you’ve lived to take on another day. 3. Be positive and hopeful. 4. Reach out to someone. 5. Find at least 1 thing to enjoy in your life today. 6. Take another deep breath. That is all.

Great to see Refresh Pittsburgh making a comeback! If you’re in the Pittsburgh tech world, head to Bakery Square (with the great Yinzer parking garage voice) and hang out with cool folks on Monday, June 23!

Love seeing modals that say, “Unlock AI for 50% Off.” I expect an AI Clearance Sale soon.

Joined a tennis league because I’m old now.

My little one has his priorities straight.

Making sure to read through all of these apprenticeship applications coming in. Lots of talented, creative, and kind people with a good philosophy on life.

What I learned from my first trip to mainland Europe: - Incredible landscapes - Beautiful people - Quality food - Better transportation - People seemed to be present Grateful to get the chance to go, meet people, and just be.

🎙️We're hiring an apprentice! @ian-frost.bsky.social and I have a ton of fun projects brewing, so we’re looking for a creative, passionate, curious, and kind go-getter to help us make it all happen. Read the details here 👉 bradfrost.com/blog/post/we...

A #sketchnotes for the talk "Design Token Architecture" by @bradfrost.com‬ and @ian-frost.bsky.social‬‬ at the @cssday.nl #cssday

What is good front-end HTML, CSS, and JS? I think that truly matters as we wield this AI tools. The answer is that it depends. Is it a quick 1-page personal website vs. are you scaling this across a large enterprise? It’s important to provide guard rails and have the knowledge to decipher and adjust

A groove I came up with the other day playing around on piano. Added some drums, too.

Kinda hot in these rhinos

The #cssday schedule is up: cssday.nl/schedule.html

The #cssday schedule is up: https://cssday.nl/schedule.html

Just a reminder that @bradfrost.com and I launched our SUBATOMIC: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO DESIGN TOKENS last week. Whether you are just getting started or expanding your mature token system, we have valuable content for you! designtokenscourse.com

I truly just want people to be able to live their lives to the fullest. Life throws enough shitty stuff your way to dwell on the miserable shit. Find the good, even in the smallest of wins during the darkest of times

Still want to create a show called “Pope My Ride” where they take someone’s vehicle, saw off the roof, and add a bulletproof glass casing. Yes, Xzibit would still host.

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