Happy Pokopia Day!

This country can afford anything it wants. Single payer healthcare. Affordable housing. Modern transit systems. High speed rail. Everything is a choice.

I've been using Rust more with Claude, so I created Ferrograph: a graph-powered Rust code intelligence tool. Indexes your codebase into a queryable knowledge graph with dead code detection, blast radius analysis, and 10 MCP tools for AI agents. github.com/GarthDB/ferrograph

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

Got it. I'm sorry for your loss. To clarify: You want a eulogy for your father that's 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲, sounds 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁, and captures the 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. I get it. He wasn't just your father — he was your Dad. Here a few options I came up with:

Why they make it look like they were crossing their t’s?

Today in Adventures in Parenting:

Skills include: - Bulleted lists

Yesterday, my 9yo started singing “The Suffering” out of the blue; it made me pretty happy. youtu.be/XnABRPS37hk?...

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. not just in communities, but companies too. I have never in my long career worked with anyone who deliberately *made the choice* to be a “low performer” without curiosity/discipline/agency, it’s always been beaten out of them

Spending the last week in the ER and ICU with my wife fighting a blood infection might have had a negative impact on my goal to write articles more regularly. I’ll have to start fresh again tomorrow.

His research method is impeccable.

Just shipped AI tooling for Leonardo: a Cursor Agent Skill for @adobe/leonardo-contrast-colors, and @adobe/leonardo-mcp so assistants can generate themes, check contrast, and convert colors. Three layers so devs and LLMs get real help building accessible color systems. leonardocolor.io/ai-tools.html

Just shipped bsky-comments! Embed Bluesky threads anywhere with a zero-dependency Web Component. • Framework Agnostic (Native WC) • < 3kb gzipped • Zero Config: Just paste the Post URL • Light DOM: Fully customizable (CSS/Tailwind) github.com/florianschep... #webdev #opensource #buildinpublic

👋 my recent contracts have ended (and my buffer’s running a bit thin) so I’m looking for what’s next spent the last year focused on OSS work, which I’ve loved, and now open to new opportunities! if you’re looking for a dev, pls to reach out! I've shared more about how I work below 🫡

We’ve had a mild winter, but an overnight snow has given the pups plenty to play with this morning, so now we have a tucked-out Tater and Tot.

I Wanna Take You For a Ride! #mvc2 #art

It's such a nice read and motivates me to do a redesign as well. This time with planning :D Thanks @bell.bz

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Writing a newsletter and a blog or whatever.

I wish when I wrote responsive CSS it felt like a system and not a collection of tweaks.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

computer, write discord 2. no mistakes pls

This Tot is almost 1 year old but her markings give her a great grumpy old man look.

We can’t AI ourselves out of a messy design system if the system doesn’t codify the context needed to clean it up. AI will just amplify whatever structure already exists. Well-named, well-typed, versioned design data → leverage Sloppy, implicit, inconsistent systems → faster chaos

Saw a really cool hover effect and made this meme depicting me at work (I am goose)

Design token peeps, have you found meaningful metrics that have informed your work? Either on the authoring or consuming end?

After hitting critical mass, I don’t think design systems break down because of missing components. They break down when design decisions aren’t explicit enough to survive: -new teams -new platforms -redesigns -automation If a decision can’t be named, typed, or diffed, how does it survive entropy?

I think the hard part might not be building components, it’s making design intent legible to engineers, tools, and future teammates. Tokens, schemas, APIs, docs, naming conventions; these aren’t outputs; they’re translation layers. So, which layers are hardest to maintain? Which ones break down?

All design and engineering teams collect decisions. The question is where those decisions live: – in people’s heads – in Slack threads – in Figma comments – or in versioned, inspectable systems Design systems are just one outcome of codifying decisions. Curious where this framing breaks down.

As payment for any future discussions about design system thinking, here is a picture of Tot with a perfect ear configuration while sleeping.

I’m trying to collect my thoughts on #designsystems and how to describe foundational aspects of them. I’m going to start posting some of my thinking here and would love some feedback or poking holes in my reasoning.

I coded the Christmas countdown automation better than I remember and it’s still accurate the day after.

Another one for the collection. I'll be celebrating 15 years at @adobe.com in January.

Like watching someone stuck on a merry go round

The beacons are lit.

I need to pour some water on Claude or something.

What it feels like trying to automate a dreaded task instead of just doing it.

The power is out for a couple hours because of a downed line. I should enough batteries to last it out.

Claude is super pumped about type safety.

This spam message almost got me to respond.

The Hubris and Folly of Custom Scrollbars: A Memoir.

Tot has those good pinto beans.

When you wear a pillow around your neck, napping is very convenient.

If I had json schema that described a components options, how would someone expect that to be semver’d? New component options are minor, any changes to existing options are major?

Being in the industry and having to present all the JS frameworks you’ve had to learn

“In the criminal justice system, CSS offenses are considered especially heinous…”

Putting together a portable recording setup for capturing in person discussions with design system people. Where should I go and who should I talk with? I’m thinking conferences and/or meetups would be best.

Feeling pretty special to have my podcast interview on the Adobe Design site. adobe.design/stories/our-...