Theres a Cheronian in Starfleet‽

iOS Photos widget threw up this image of that time i gave a talk about design tokens at The Crucible, Sheffield Just before the world locked down. Feels like an absolute life time ago now.

a while back I made a little PWA to decide and list the evening meals for the week. Since then I've been using a template in reminders, but it's getting a bit ridiculous. Going to take a look at seeing how I can improve this idea today www.alwaystwisted.com/projects/wfd/

Here’s The Architect’s Newspaper with a withering review of Joe Gebbia’s “National Design Studio”, and what it really stands for: www.archpaper.com/2025/12/nati... As design critiques go, this is one of the best ones I’ve read in some time.

OMG #TheTraitors

looks cool!

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The dust of decades settles on your keyboard as you push aside lines of vendor prefixes Your fedora casts shadows over cryptic CSS hacks from another era. "This belongs in a museum" you mutter ReliCSS: The front-end archaeologist's tool for navigating legacy CSS www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/ 🙏🖤

Yes. Industry is back.

recalling @ericwbailey.website's article - "Organizing a design system via folksonomy" ericwbailey.website/published/or... which I played around with at the time: bsky.app/profile/stur... and added it as part of the component library tool I'm working on

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the lovely @davatron5000.bsky.social has written some fab articles on color-contrast() daverupert.com/2026/01/algo... daverupert.com/2026/01/coer... daverupert.com/2026/01/cont... daverupert.com/2026/01/nest... 🙏🖤 #FrontEnd #WebDev #CSS

Before anyone actually uses it on a website, see this comment css-tricks.com/pure-css-tab...

this is really cool from @silvestar.codes Pure CSS tabs with details, grid, and subgrid www.silvestar.codes/articles/pur... #CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd

the only good thing about your substack is the rss feed I just found.

At the end of last week I pushed an update to ReliCSS that would create a 'report' as an .html file. Would (if I could) a PDF be more useful? Either / Or / Both? 🙏🖤

kinda wild how long it usually takes James Bond to go down the slopes #SkiSunday

This looks fun. youtu.be/AqNFJUihSHg?... (I just hope we’ve not seen everything in the trailer)

Week of January 11, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-1-11

becoming an instagram social media marketing pro … ama, fml.

Slightly diminish a band Average Furry Animals

adorable www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpBr...

That backfired #TheTraitors

Again. #TheTraitors

I've just pushed an update to ReliCSS that now includes the option to export an HTML 'report' of the results along with some bug fixes and UI updates. www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/ 🙏🖤 #FrontEnd #WebDev #CSS

I've just pushed an update to ReliCSS that now includes the option to export an HTML 'report' of the results along with some bug fixes and UI updates. www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/ 🙏🖤 #FrontEnd #WebDev #CSS

working on a little feature for ReliCSS that generates a handy report file (in HTML at the moment).

last night my partner found a website that closed at 9pm.

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James to win #TheTraitors

The OG “exam results app” www.gov.uk/government/n...

is it Hannibal? 🙏

I've just published a new version of ReliCSS after some fantastically, thoughtful feedback from @vale.rocks - CSS Custom Properties with an underscore no longer get marked as a hack - A11y fixes - more nuanced -webkit- results - results now use details/summary www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/ 🙏🖤

spending a little time this morning implementing some updates from some fantastic, thoughtful feedback received 🙏🖤

Engramma is quickly becoming the Design Tokens management tool I've been trying (and stop/starting) to create over the last 3/4 years. Seriously great open-source work here from @trysound.io Website: app.engramma.dev GitHub: github.com/TrySound/eng... 🙏🖤

in the other office again today, looking after Sarah’s antiques shop for the day. www.instagram.com/tryonantiques

despite my efforts of adding a text file to my site, it seems "AI" has eaten up my recent articles on Design Tokens. Who knew.

😍 www.bbc.com/news/article...

they’re getting worse at this. #TheTraitors

A great tool for scanning CSS to find old hacks that you almost certainly don’t need anymore. www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/

if anyone can tell me what keyboard combination I accidentally hit which now means I have two monitors showing exactly the same things … that'd be great. Yikes!

kinda wild that @bsky.app truncates alt. text when you click the 'alt' button to expose it

Working on (at the moment) two little web apps and deciding I want to share the "aesthetic" between the two … you know what that means. I need a component library. I did start on something using @11ty.dev a while ago … and now I have three things I'm working on.

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

A while back I wrote up about some handy front-end browser bookmarklets, I've just updated the 'component checker' so it provides a prompt for you to provide your Design Systems components prefix (you do that, right‽). www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/a-f... 👀 The results of checking my homepage

no-one asked for it but, later today, ReliCSS is getting a 'light mode' www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/ 🙏🖤

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