I recently mentioned that the design system doc schema I’ve been making doesn’t suck. I take it back. But I’m working to unsuck it. I‘m hoping to ship a slew of improvements this week.

Week of June 6, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-6-6 Links by: @adamsilverhq.bsky.social @jono.id

More design system doc spec updates. - Added a `last-updated` metadata schema to provide a timestamp for when an entity in the docs was modified - Renamed: `name` → `identifier`, `displayName` → `name`. Yeah, I'm sorry. - Added more fidelity to the `criteria` property designsystemdocspec.org

I know what people need–wands. Wands to buy shit. That's what everyone is asking for.

Getting off the screen to review / revise guidelines the old fashioned way.

Week of June 1, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-6-1 Links by: @scott.is @dimitriotero.bsky.social

Sharing is caring. And even though caring has gone extremely out of style, we suggest you do it anyway. Davy and PJ talk about how you can within design systems. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

I wrote about my recent work to build a design system documentation spec. pjonori.blog/posts/design...

The 2023 Dungeons & Dragons movie was so much better than it had any right to be.

Update on my writing app.

Week of May 24, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-5-24 Links by: @branon.dev @murphytrueman.com @e18e.dev

Answering my girls’ questions about baseball makes it clear how complicated of a sport it is. That’s also partly why it’s so great.

Sergio Romo on the Giants pre-game makes me happy.

I noticed that Netlify measures server-side traffic. I then noticed robots are my primary audience. I then noticed that I got sad.

The irony of the “deal with it message” is that it’s the runs counter to the responsibility of college graduates. Their job isn’t to deal with it. They get to set the terms of what our future looks like. Grads—do not deal with it.

If you didn't hear, Zeplin open sourced Omlet. github.com/zeplin/omlet That's incredibly generous and not something to just take for granted. A lot of time and effort was put into making this and it's a worth a look if you need a tool to measure design system adoption. So, again, big props.

Mute remains one of the best features in social media.

Week of May 17, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-5-17

I can't fully wrap my head around the concept, but I think an RSS reader connected to the Fediverse / AT protocol would be super interesting.

🔥 Phano 17 up at www.phano.com 🔥 Jump through the heavens, save what’s precious, and deposit your remains. Three new pieces fresh and free to read: - “Zugunruhe” by Christopher R. Muscato - “My Mourning Cloak” by Anna Boyce - “How To Use The Dead” by Kalvin M. Madsen

Week of May 10, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-5-10

We just hit our out 99-more-episodes-than-anyone-wanted milestone! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

It may not be popular, but it seems more and more like a responsibility to call out BS when we see it. "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all", is a wonderful idea in theory, but I think we're seeing its failings after way too much silence.

Week of May 3, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-5-3

The best way to tell if you're a writer is to edit someone else's words and have it not end up sounding like you. I'm not a writer.

H.L. Mencken has banger quotes.

Good design, design tech, and front-end bloggers to subscribe to. Go.

Fine, I wrote it. pjonori.blog/posts/testin...

Dude, Github is taking it on the chin.

Some things go away. And some things, like this podcast, stubbornly do not. We chat about the stuff in design systems that sticks around versus what doesn't–and how that can impact our work. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Week of April 26, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-4-26

I didn't want to share this yet because it's still so rough, but given new specs are starting to show up, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring: designsystemdocspec.org I'm working on a standard schema for design system documentation. I've been using it for my own work. It doesn't suck.

I haven't been writing about it much, but I've continued to noodle on my own writing app. I've got a basic-ass app running. I gotta say, basic-ass is feeling really good.

Week of April 17, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-4-17

Week of April 12, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-4-12

I've been noodling on a proposed standard design system documentation schema. It's been busting my brain for the past few weeks. Hit me up if you'd be interested in getting a peek.

Week of April 5, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-4-5

Can someone explain how sugarcube.sh differs from Style Dictionary?

I don't need to speak German to agree with this.

The RSS feed for pjonori.blog doesn't suck anymore. Sorry about that.

Good news for those of you who think there's nothing more exciting than hearing two middle-aged men discuss survey results... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Week of March 29, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-3-29

It's difficult to overstate how much global life could be upended from the attack on Iran. And we still haven't been given a clear/consistent reason why it happened to begin with.

Week of March 22, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-3-22

I look forward to the day where I don't receive an email telling me something is dead–and that's why I need to give them money.

Tokens in the morning. Tokens in the evening. Tokens at supper time. When tokens are in your system, you can have tokens anytime. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

My recent noodling–I'm creating a CLI tool to evaluate writing and provide general analysis on readability of text. I want to have a programmatic tool that'll help me be a slightly less shitty writer.

Week of March 15, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-3-15

I wrote a blog post about why it's important to talk like an actual human being. pjonori.blog/posts/dont-t...