Life as a freelancer with ADHD means I am regularly in a shame spiral for letting my digital work get chaotic because out of sight = out of mind until it's time to back up the client project at wrap. 🙈 ISO download / screenshot management workflow tips and tricks.

Hey writers, editors, & anyone who uses Google workspace because there’s no other viable alternative - in addition to turning off Smart features, make sure you toggle off this new mess of nonsense hidden in the Admin settings.

instead of listening to all the thought-leader grifters that used to be somewhat respectable acting as mouth pieces for slop machines, spend some time getting very good at making stuff. there’s only so long these fucks can pretend this shit is actually good.

On June 1, 1999, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning launched the peer-to-peer file-sharing platform Napster. #InternetHistory

We've shared a few things to help you get away from big tech over time but this specific event (and the resources) looks great. di.day/en

The State of CSS survey is out! It's shorter this year! Please go take it! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

I love getting random DMs from people sharing with me all the ways AI butchers my name when it quotes an article/video of mine. 😂 I know that my last name is a mouthful, even for AI but Sam Stone is a bit of a stretch...

The Adobe Fonts design team launched a fun little side project last week: Glyph Finder! It allows you to see how the design of a specific character varies across a random selection of different typefaces from the Adobe Fonts library. labs.fonts.adobe.com/projects/gly...

SUBJECT: URGENT TO THE DEVELOPERS OF THE PYTHON LIBRARY CALLED "SHAPELY" EVERY TIME I NEED TO LOOK SOMETHING UP IN YOUR DOCUMENTATION I WIND UP GOOGLING THE PHRASE "SHAPELY PYTHON" AND FEEL LIKE A PERVERT PLEASE CHANGE YOUR LIBRARY'S NAME SINCERELY A MAN WHO IS TRYING TO BE RESPECTABLE

scraping old paint and caulking off of baseboards is my current oddly satisfying guilty pleasure away from my computer... What's yours?

"I’m not the only one. Personal sites are coming back. RSS feeds are coming back. Webrings are coming back. People are remembering that a website can be a home or a place instead of a profile." www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i... Yessss @terrygodier.com!

Do these corps with the massive layoffs understand what they are doing to their future ability to recruit top talent? The next 5 years are going to be very interesting...

Better Fluid Sizing With “round()”, by @[email protected]: https://ishadeed.com/article/css-round/?ref=frontenddogma.com #css #functions #liquiddesign

Excited to be teaching for SILCON Stanford University 🔡 I'll be focusing on the design side of the inaugural KBI UX incubator focusing on typography and text content in Figma for this incredible group of brilliant minds.

The tech gremlins have been pushing Google and Zoom meeting invites into my spam and junk over the last two weeks, but somehow this one makes it to the inbox? I certainly don't want to work with Mr. Wang, but I do need to get work emails from folks I've already been chatting with! 😂 WTF

“Unless the design system you’ve built is structured as a genuine contract that those (AT) tools can read and reason against, you’re accumulating bespoke UI at speed and calling it productivity.” - MT 🙌 This was a fantastic read

Reasons why it's been 5 years of trying and I still don't fully get Git in infographic form...

~7 years ago I started curating a list of Design Tokens resources on GitHub… today I launch something better. An updated, tagged collection of 292+ articles on design tokens. www.alwaystwisted.com/projects/dtm... more links/resources coming soon. 🙏🖤 #DesignTokens #DesignSystems #WebDev

“Creating is energizing. Reviewing is draining…” siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...

Who will I see in the chat? I'm doing something totally different this time 🎶🎧👩🏼‍💻

I should have guessed when Claude was on Struggle Street this week, they were about to push something big 😻 Opus 4.6 Cowork is checking Figma data (Anova plugin YAML), comparing it to my design token JSON files + ADR's, reviewing Radix open-source docs, and writing my component architecture docs 🤯

what if the Figma MCP wasn't actually useless and let you write to your Figma files? (its easy) cianfrani.dev/posts/a-bett...

Wanna guess which of these stats I'm the most proud of? 🙏 Top 10% of builders globally using Lovable is WILD, seeing as I started using it in Dec for SheBuilds, where I sent almost 200 messages in 48hrs. However, it's the 9/10 in the politeness score that made me smile. 🫶

got my full listening history export from Spotify and want to ingest it into @teal.fm—anybody build this yet?

2026 is the year I spend more time in RSS. What are your fav feeds? 👀

Come and join us in February for the first Smashing Meets of 2026! We'll be talking about everything Design Systems with the lovely @bencallahan.com, @samiamdesigns.bsky.social, and @geoffgraham.me. We hope you will join us online. Tickets are free 💞 smashingconf.com/meets-design...

Does anyone in my bsky vicinity have experience with game design? I’m working on a game design document and I’d love to either pick your brain, or maybe we can work on this concept of mine together.

Don’t get caught up in the silly design system debate on whether design or code is the “real source of truth.” We all know the authoritative source of truth is actually a spreadsheet.

Thats a wrap on SheBuilds! I truly built something Lovable in 48hrs dispite being sick 🤒 Full rundown after I'm done being rundown 🫶

Home stretch starts now! 🫶 "What is the impact of replacing my typeface?" is now something that can be answered in just a couple of clicks. 🤯 This exact question would have taken 100x longer just 36hr ago.

Wrote a piece for the @zeroheight.com blog on annotating design system components for accessibility: zeroheight.com/blog/how-to-... #a11y

Day 1 of SheBuilds 🫶 I lost 5 hrs of building today to wrap up facilitating my theming design systems workshop with @smashing_conf where I teach people how to build these kinds of systems maps as a way to think through their design systems scaling challenges MANUALLY.

First 2.5 hrs of SheBuilds 👩‍💻 1hr Kickoff call - 1 hr chatting with Lovable to develop the plan and the 1st build, fixed a couple of minor issues and have my FIRST WORKING BUILD! 30 mins documenting my progress 😻

If you ever want someone to ruthlessly cut scope on an MVP project, ask Claude to help you prep for a 48hr buildathon! 🙈

It's 48 hrs until SheBuilds starts! I'm going to share my progress learning Lovable and building an interactive system mapping tool as my project 0-1. 🫠 As a technically savvy no-coder, I'm equally excited and annoyed at how loud my inner saboteur is...

Christmas came early in Figma ☃️ Looks like we can now import and export DTCG formatted design tokens as variables! Is it time to retire the Tokens ≠ Variables stickers? More testing is required! And no, this isn't an enterprise account. This is my freelance account on the Pro Figma plan.... 🙌

Me everytime I have to use a Google doc and add images... 🤦‍♀️ Where is the AI assist for these kinds of pain points? Maybe 2026 will be the year!

I got accepted to SheBuilds on Lovable Season 02! 🎉 Any guesses what I'll build? Wrong answers only 😜 #SheBuildsOnLovable

Did you know Systems Thinking is an academic framework backed by science? 🤔 Stoked to be teaching the FUNdamentals of Systems Thinking through a Design Systems perspective during my upcoming workshops with Smashing Conferences 😻 🔗👇

Ever wondered how you might use an LLM to document your design decisions? 🤖 I recorded my workflow using Claude Desktop and the template I shared yesterday to create the Architecture Decision Record example featured in the article. Watch the YouTube video ▶️ youtu.be/vyKG6nNixeU...

Design Tokens aren't enough. While they document WHAT was decided in your design system, you still need to document WHY it was decided. 🤔 This is where an Architecture Decisions Record (ADR) comes in handy!

It's almost 2026... Why can't I paste markdown into a Google doc and have it just work? 🤬

"Why is the primary button using the quaternary brand token? WTF is quaternary anyway?" 😳 Let's be real - we've all inherited (or created 🙈) systems with these head scratchers. They usually hit when you're new to a system and trying to figure out what decisions were made and why. The good news?

Curious about my upcoming Theming Design Systems workshop? 🧐 Here's a sneak peek at one of the collaborative workshop files where we practice systems mapping skills to think through the classic problem of "where should things live in my Figma workspace?"

Booking my flu shot appointment is like planning to get sick now to avoid getting even more sick later... 🤒 I'm so jealous of the folks who aren't knocked out after a vaccine, but it's still worth it! 🙌

Nature's ombre 🍁 My favourite time of year to wander my neighborhood and take in magic of color changing skyscapes and trees.

We can also have a nice entry animation by adding the following code: ``` img { transition: 1s 1s; @​starting-style { offset: circle(0px) 0% 0deg; } } ``` Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/full/... via @codepen.io

A systems thinking approach to Theming in design systems 🫶

This is amazing: A reference manual for people who design and build software. Written and illustrated by Dan Hollick. www.makingsoftware.com

Today, Anthropic made my dreams come true. MCP between Claude and Airtable is a GAME CHANGER! 🤖 I'm OVER using token management tools for reasons best discussed over a strong coffee or a negroni. My motivation is going to be for your benefit very soon. 🚀