Took the opportunity this weekend to update my desk setup. Now that I have a new video switcher for Wireframe, I brought the old one back up to be on the desk.

If my Gmail wasn't on the brink of overflowing, I'd get behind this (or maybe I should just do a massive cleanup). www.youtube.com/watch?v=swDG...

I woke up to a great message this morning. Wireframe has been featured on Feedspot's Top 10 Design Systems Podcasts! 🏆 podcast.feedspot.com/design_syste...

Sometimes I wonder if I'd be better off just using OBS like the rest of the world. 😵‍💫 Audio routing shouldn't be this hard.

My book is delayed and you can help! The illustrator I had is too busy to engage in the 35 UI illustrations needed to complete the book. If you are or know of an illustrator that has time to deliver UI illustrations soon please let me know! 🙏

Nothing like waking up to community group spam in the morning. 🍵

There's nothing like trying to integrate new equipment into your studio only to find out how disappointing some of the features are. I just redid the entire audio setup for Wireframe tonight. Let's hope for good shows this week! 🤞

If I was still in the competitive fighting game scene, I'd use this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vws... I'm not accurate with a stick, only on d-pad. But many of the games I played required more than one button to be pressed at a time which is hard on most controllers. This solves it all.

With great power comes the ability to fit text. blog.damato.design/posts/fit-te...

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

“When designers and engineers complain that "design systems are killing my creativity," they are often unconsciously imposing their own self-restrictions.” #designsystems via @donnie.damato.design www.zeroheight.com/blog/design-...

Hi folks, anyone who was looking forward to Andii Hei as a guest on Wireframe tomorrow will have to wait a little longer. We had to reschedule for later this month. Stay tuned! 📺

Converge 2025 talks are now available on demand! 👇 We may be biased, but these are some of our best yet. Whether you missed the conference or want to relive the highlights, you can now watch every talk. 💫 🎥 Watch now: hubs.li/Q03Wp53h0

My wife has been coding CSS recently to test design token values. I told her to add box-sizing: border-box to fix a sizing issue she had. She asks, "what's that for?" And this is where she leveled up past designer who tweaks devtools. 🫶

Day after day, I find social media algorithms acting unfavorably. It's why newsletters are a popular. 📨 Except newsletters are mixed in with my inbox of non-industry things so I'm never ready to start diving in. 😵‍💫 Instead, I've decided to put my updates at discord.ds.house, for when you're ready!

Every paragraph of this article is a banger. “We don’t need to reinvent styling. We just need to respect the boundaries that made the web work in the first place. CSS is not broken; our discipline is. The answer isn’t more abstraction—it’s better understanding.” thenewstack.io/css-in-js-th...

I did something similar last year. blog.damato.design/posts/two-ty... Definitely looking forward to the progress() function support!

I miss when replit used to just be a place to share Node.js scripts. Now it forces me to start a project with AI and I'm just sitting here waiting for it to make a whole frontend application for something that could have been a single function. 😞

Hey, if you happen to be celebrating a holiday this weekend, why not spend some time building your own MCP server? Ok there's probably plenty of reasons. But if you're bored maybe give it a try? Here's how I did it. blog.damato.design/posts/minefi...

Another interview down for Wireframe! This time I spoke with TED speaker and design educator Thomas Girard. From being shoeless on stage, to cold emailing John Maeda, and everything in between. Watch the episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH45...

I just wrapped up the latest episode of Wireframe with our first guest Arko Sen! We spoke about how he's implemented Mise en Mode and reduced his tokens down to 20! Check out the episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjIw... I'll have another guest live on the show tomorrow at 5pm ET. Don't miss it!

GitHub mobile trying the telephone keypad layout for text formatting options. 😵‍💫

Someone just reported that they joined my discord after finding Wireframe on their FYP at TikTok and all I can think of is this meme.

WCAG 2.2 is now ISO standard ISO/IEC 40500:2025 www.iso.org/standard/910... Wish that number wasn't a mouthful.

LLMs already reference this article 👀 frontendmasters.com/blog/count-a...

Someone on the Internet called chicken cutlets "Italian protein bars" and well now I will too.

Did Cloudflare purposely take their services down so they could hop on the new "Sorry" advertising campaign, but actually mean it?

I think we may have went too far.

Trying to find the right discord bot is exactly the same as trying to find the right npm package. 😵‍💫

My 60th blog post is an update to complementary space! blog.damato.design/posts/comple... I'm planning on sunsetting the domain, so I wanted to move some of the content and update other parts based on Mise en Mode research. Also found an opportunity to sneak in a MacGyver reference. 😅

Buckle up for all the new portfolio redesigns to drop in 2026. 🎉

Last night @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social and I had a live conversation using his Meta AI recording glasses. After the show my wife said: "I think that was the least funny part of the show" Welp, guess you'll never see that video. 😅

I am glad that I don't interact with anyone at an age where this could be uttered. gizmodo.com/dictionary-c...

I just noticed at YouTube the hover effect on cards seems to be custom to each video. I assume they are getting the most prominent color from the thumbnail. They also update the text color to match. This could have been CSS (except getting the color from the image) but it's all JS here. 😞

"If you’ve ever felt restricted by a design system [...], you may be up against common psychological phenomena that limit your thinking." Check out @donnie.damato.design's article "Design systems don’t kill creativity – our biases do" on the @zeroheight.com blog: zeroheight.com/blog/design-...

General request for people organizing events, please stop announcing events for November 13th. I feel like there's 5 events happening that day, many of which I want to attend. Pick another day, I want to go!

@scope is coming to Firefox! www.firefox.com/en-US/firefo...

Good tip @donnie.damato.design: buff.ly/ysu28eJ Don't use `onDark` in your tokens, this requires adding another set of tokens for everything on dark. Better define a dark theme and use this in the section that needs a dark BG. This way no additional tokens are needed and it works out of the box.

✈️ I'm currently 30,000 ft in the air with the time to publicly appreciate the time spent with the design systems community at Converge by @zeroheight.com (Photo by Jennifer D'Amato)

All the construction in Bristol is making it feel like home. 🚧

Exactly what this thread is all about. github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

New hat acquired, green velvet straight out of emerald city. 💚

Guess now's a good time to re-relaunch my first full-stack project: deltazeus.com Stop checking the weather every day. Your location's RSS feed updates only when the change in weather is significant. Hook it up to your news feed or something like Zapier to get custom notifications. ⚡

Fun fact, I don't mention AI at all in my talk at Converge next week. Not once. 🚫

this weeks @designsysnews.bsky.social was going to be delayed but I have enough non-medium links to include. If you've not subscribed, you can do it now: news.design.systems … and I implore you (if you can) to have your own blog. xoxo

Hey all, in an effort to drop some domain costs, I'm going to be moving some things around. Wireframe will now be found at wireframe.ds.house. The original link will work until it expires and I'll put in a proper redirect next year.

Yesterday I reviewed Tokenscript by the folks at Tokens Studio on Wireframe and how it's very similar to an idea I promoted 2 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq-0...

YouTube Live settings are awful. TIL that if you set anything other than Normal latency, the livestream processing after the show can be delayed, making sharing the link to the stream broken. Great job YouTube, really helpful for content creators. 😒

Just went through the entries so far on wireframe.fm live. Creativity like this is scary! 😈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9z-...