A few years back, I nearly wrote "The Fallacy of Federated Design Systems." Then @nathanacurtis.bsky.social beat me to it. But what happens when you try it anyway? At Spotify, I watched federated fail twice, resulting in a huge number of barely reused components and damaged trust in design systems.

I feel like Chris Joslin tre flipping El Toro has awoken something in me. Like, I get emotional every time it pops up on my feed.

And you thought Solo was bad…

Martin Parr, absolute mensch. From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB

Haven’t been feeling very festive yet, but Adam and Joe just posted a photo together 🥹

Which dead cool legends are at the Design System Awards tomorrow?

A good point people are bringing up — if they need to pretend that making this commercial was hard work to avoid getting yelled at, they are also undercutting the propaganda that A.I. will give you a ton more free time. Which fake story are you sticking to. bsky.app/profile/cult...

Just witnessed an incredibly bald man win a bottle of shampoo on the school tombola.

He’s done it again, lxds. DS adoption can’t be boiled down to a bullet on a slide, it’s more nuanced than that.

lmao

“That's why when they have construction sites, they have to have those wood panel fences around it. That's just to keep the men out. They cut those little holes for us so we can see what the hell is going on... but if they don't cut those holes, we are climbing those fences.”

This feels particularly mean-spirited, given the plot of the show being advertised.

This forever. “Oh no I heard a proper Christmas song at Christmas”. Grow up and get merry.

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

Naughty pattern from Goals here. I get a bunch of marketing emails that I don’t want from them, but if I try to unsubscribe they tell me I won’t get the confirmation ones that I do need.

Your Wagamamas is going to be delivered to a bush by a gang of youths, pal.

I watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles last night, so festivities may now commence.

I once got a message about a pair of running shoes I was selling on eBay that said they didn’t want to buy them but to compliment my foot strike, which was evident from the wear on the soles.

Right I’m just going to say it: Round laces don’t work. They come undone all the time, which is a bad feature.

Get this course, become a better human/designer.

Watching this misery in a traffic jam is top stuff.

I have joined the Radiohead resale queue so many times I am now considered a bot by the ticketing corporations.

Right, fine The Futureheads Christmas Album; You make a cromulent point.

Got to adjust to waking up and deciphering countless bipolar posts about cricket.

"The richest man in the world built a robot to tell people he's cool" is the saddest, most bulliable fucking Twilight Zone thing in the world. You fucking LOSER. All that money and not a fucking _whiff_ of charisma. Start giving yourself a wedgie, you fucking dork, it'll take me time to get there.

Just had an email from my dentist with the subject “Festive opening hours”.

‘Mon the Jocks!

How often do you reckon twins get mixed up when they’re babies?

My 13yo daughter has become accidentally obsessed with mmm mmm mmm mmm by Crash Test Dummies.

New Converge incoming!!

I cannot recommend enough the game “i will strangle a horse”

Troy Parrott. Echos of Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002. What a moment. #COYBIG 🇮🇪

TROY BLEEDIN’ PARROTT!!1 LOOK OUT WORLD CUP

Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.

Torment Nexus feature update:

Every ad now

Let’s hear it for reasonably priced merch for touring bands.

Remember when you used to see a music video for the first time and it just gripped you? This is something else.

Sick to death of being punched in the gut by association football.

Check in with your mates. We’re in this together.

The final is always the worst episode of Traitors, but fair dos, that was actually a good one. Genuinely surprised how good the celeb version was.

First mulled wine of the season inbound.

For fleeting moment last night, my face was projected 30ft tall to ten thousand people at Alexandra Palace.

So how was the Turnstile show, Sean? Oh yeah, not bad. I cried in the pit.

NYC, that is the juice.

We are an absurd football club

MICKY VAN DER VEN SPIRIT OF SONNY OH MY CHRIST

Annual Outbreak side shows requests, please. Specifically Trash Talk.

Lewis and Katya’s couples choice almost erased that Spurs game from my being it was that good. Christ!

That might be the most embarrassing 1-0 of all time.