Trying to get answers from people before they go on holiday

generally do not enjoy the holiday period but i am so very excited to just fall off the face of the earth for a few weeks. perfect time to forget everything but dog cuddles, video games, and percy pigs.

as a designer, people ask me, what's your favourite stroke? that's easy! 3. 2px solid black 2. 1px dashed #fafafa 1. Margaret Thatcher's

I cannot more highly recommend never reading Hacker News. Great career decision, excellent life choice.

He's brought shame upon the FIFA Peace Prize.

at a solid 80% success(?) rate for ai 'art' xmas cards this year. sorry joyce from no 84 but it's going right in the bin love.

okay so i finally did the maths (well, code, really) to calculate the combined length of all the mindful design course videos. 28 hours : 51 minutes : 36 seconds almost 30hrs of my stupid face talking about rectangles and the importance of not being a prick.

never ever ever want to read an article about trans people written by a cis journalist ever again thanks. maybe fucking source and pay trans writers? it's like trying to read a football article by someone who's only ever had the concept of balls explained to them by three small dogs in a trenchcoat.

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

lost another friend from school today which makes it three in the past five years and there's just something extra harrowing about friends your own age dying that i can't quite put into words. like getting ambushed by the very concept of mortality on top of the grief.

react is such an over-engineered clusterfuck

”What’s wrong with build tools? Other languages are compiled!” Yes, but their compiler is official and always there. The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling. *That’s* the problem.

i’ve been writing HTML and CSS for like 20 years and one thing i’ve always struggled with is making it a bit more systematic and predictable. can’t say enough good about @bell.bz’s complete css course for that. lovely little vid showing how all the prep work pays off: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5a...

ACAB includes the elf on a shelf

cats in xmas trees season is a good vibe harshed by the abyssal omnipresence of elf on a shelf content

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 !!!

absolutely stunning from the boys.

Stoked to share that True Terrors (@strange.website) and I have turned this riff of a post into "Strangers By Spring", a creative project about escapism, romance, and rebirth: strangersbyspring.com Sometimes it's really good to just sit down and make the things you wish existed in the world.

never gonna forgive @bell.bz for introducing me to rosalía cause now i start every day with a big massive cry.

FRIENDS it is now the LAST DAY that you can SAVE SOME DOSH when you buy MINDFUL DESIGN. it is a VERY MASSIVE video course that covers the FULL DESIGN STACK and you get to STARE AT MY FACE for TWENTY SEVEN HOURS or sth. now i will SHUT THE HECK UP and NAP FOR A WEEK. piccalil.li/mindful-design

as much as i hate it, the piss filter that ai loves to splash over every prompted monstrosity is absolutely fantastic for helping spot generated slop. i hope it never goes away.

feel like pure shit just wanna DISMANTLE SHINRA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY and TAKE A DAMN NAP

autism wrapped 2025!

I've wrapped up the theory portion of Mindful Design. It's so good. If you're on the fence about buying it, just go for it. @piccalil.li's black friday sale is still ongoing, too. I'm excited to get started with the practical side of the course :D

it's so good lads.

⚠️ 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-...

being able to just set bottom margins in @penpot.app instead of nesting 742 different auto-layout frames together to have granular control of vertical rhythm is such a big win. visualising layer structure almost 1:1 to a DOM tree is way more valuable than i expected.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Once again, telling me that I need to pay attention to the encroaching fascism—and doing it FROM YOUR SUBSTACK—is telling me you’re not willing to do the work you’re asking everyone else to do.

At long last we have invented Gattaca, from the acclaimed 1997 movie "Wouldn't It Be Fucked Up If We Had Gattaca"

‘i spent roughly 200 hours configuring an AI tech stack that saves me roughly 28 seconds a day. here’s what it taught me about sunk cost fallacy.’

If you're still on the fence about Mindful Design, we got Scott to record a thorough run-through of exactly what to expect on the course and the material he covers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1j6...

“Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'” fuckin shitey lil gaslighter

on this day of Wrapped Discourse ™, I have finally managed to quit Spotify

uh oh the linkedin people have just learned about pace layers. gonna be a tough december.

i am becoming a self-parody

TREE UP. HOME ALONE ON. A LINGERING ABYSSAL MELANCHOLY THAT WILL NOT BE SATED UNTIL MID JANUARY. MINCE PIES. TRULY IS THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

tell yer mam u want MINDFUL DESIGN for xmas xxx

still the best cover of all time www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFZC...

⏱️ There's only one week 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-1-...

went to linkedin. was immediately accosted by 17 ai generated 'joke' comics about naming design tokens. the fuck is this 'i see your stepdad went to the converge after-party' nonsense?

explain your job to your grandparents

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...

Friendly Reminder that the Black Friday sale on the Practical Accessibilty course is still running, but the 30% discount expires in less than 3 days ⏳ If you've been thinking about getting the course, now's a good time to grab access before the offer ends: practical-accessibility.today

all subsequent (and yes, more useful) stuff will be in this thread so mute it and/or me if you are very sick of me and/or the course marketing.

are you excited for MINDFUL DESIGN ADVENT? what is #MindfulDesignAdvent i do not hear you ask? it’s a daily dose of some course related stuff in a transparent attempt to convince you it is good and to buy it! for day one, you can watch the INTRO (wow!!!) for FREE (huh?!!) piccalil.li/mindful-desi...

i am good design teacher

personal brand is still going strong

@profanity.accountant lets fuckin go then m8