My response to anything over the next two weeks

Nice to get great feedback about the past autumn from a client of mine just before the holidays. Especially when it’s about me exceeding their (already originally) high expectations.

Focusing on very important bits on this placeholder page elenajs.com

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …

Decided to start my vacation a day earlier than planned. So just basically pinged the rest of the team with *see y'all in 4 weeks.* 😂

Been neck deep within React/Next.js this past week and now wish I was on that *vacation already* (2 more days of work left!). But hey, SSR & Next.js Server Components support for these Custom Elements seems to be working finally 😍

This open source *thing* is moving forward on the side as I’m working on the core custom elements/web components tooling for my client’s design system.

Baked a little evening snack for me and kids

Safari 26.2 is here with 65 features + 165 bug fixes — including field-sizing, Navigation API, Largest Contentful Paint, command & commandfor, CHIPS opt-in partitioned cookies, scrollend event, random(), WebGPU in WebXR, scrollbar-color, hidden=until-found and much more! webkit.org/blog/17640/w...

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.

googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions

”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.

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

Migrated today back to a code editor without AI capabilities. Such a bliss to work with.

I do firmly believe that if you're an individual or company that is NOT over-indexing on AI right now, you have the competitive advantage. Unfortunately I do not have high hopes that the industry will recognize that until significant damage has been done.

My team at Adobe is hiring a web components engineer to help us build out the future of our design system. Great opportunity for someone earlier in their career to jump in and help us continue to improve Spectrum Web Components. In-office hybrid in LA, Denver or NYC. adobe.design/jobs/job-pos...

You can fundamentally rewire your brain to properly understand CSS layout... for $34.50. Can’t say fairer than that! One day left.

Enjoying building something new quite a bit this week.

@darn.es CEO of Jarvis Grip Framework, how may I help you

*I am not gonna build a new web component framework* *I am not gonna build a new web component framework* *I am not gonna build a new web component framework* *I am not gonna build a new web component framework* …oh wait…

Last week booked almost one month off for an upcoming Christmas break and a part of me keeps thinking *wait, what, am I actually allowed to do this now*

The link goes to this page, Import Modes section. help.figma.com/hc/en-us/art... The scheme announcement and what I thought previously was that it was an enterprise-only feature... In reading this page there are a few gotchas for us folks who have been living in token land for a while now...

Very late to the party, but if looking at the new Figma features, I think I’m most excited about the ability to _finally_ import code based components into Figma (and not the other way around). Have dreamed of this since 2016 (helloo, remember react-sketchapp???).

Starting the weekend with a decent cup of coffee & building demos + writing about SSR for Web Components. This is covered way too little anywhere online imho. Especially since there’re so many ways to approach it.

Saw this random t-shirt online and I obviously *needed* it.

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

Our Black Friday deals are now live! Save £60 on *all courses* and everyone who buys a course during this period will be given a coupon code that they can use to get a 50% discount off future course purchases at any time. piccalilli.link/black-friday...

Saw a dream last night where me, @darn.es & @wicky.nillia.ms were building watch faces with CSS (🤷‍♀️) and competing who can build the most complicated one with as little code as possible 🙃

Alternate alt text... [left, ariel's design systems] [right, dave's design systems]

I have today reached a new level in the game called never-ending job of selling design systems

Found a new space to work on my bicycles 😍

i made a pillow for our phones - turns on do not disturb when you lay your phone on top

React made me re-render my life choices

Looks like I may have finally found budget to hire *a person* to help me on design systems stuff. 🥳

Celebrated two years together yesterday. My boyfriend had written me a love letter. And I couldn’t even finish the first sentences before bursting into tears. Had to read the rest after our dinner. Gosh, I love him so much.

Being real pro here and creating music for my monthly design system video presentations now. AMA

I have this routine… in the mornings; I sit in the bed with coffee, stare at the sunrise. Like right now. And I switch on the discover feature from my music player. Keep on listening to songs I’ve never heard of. Until I hear something so magnificent that I feel shivers everywhere. And then.

View transitions are in every browser now ✨

“I have not been working on planning [a design systems infrastructure] this week.”

half of tech is people mindlessly going "ooh shiny object" at tech stacks and visual design without stopping to ask what actual problem is being solved (or created)

Seems like I have not been the only one cancelling my disney subscription over the past week 🥲

This thing arrived today.

Focus rings! Plural! I wrote for @piccalil.li about how to create a branded double ring focus effect that is dynamically generated based on the interactive element's text color. piccalil.li/blog/taking-...

hiya. figma is a fucking terrible source of truth. if you're building one of the 142,000 AI-powered design system tools out there right now, binding your 'truth' to a proprietary file format in a proprietary platform from an org that’s showing some shaky signs is just extremely Not The Way™.

Hello! I am looking for a freelance/contract UI designer to help on a project asap. Luxury brand experience and working with design systems a bonus. Please get in touch via benbrignell.com/pages/contact, thank you!

Last user interview for this week completed. Now off to a long weekend and finishing up with these next week.

Hi cis friends - trans folk of all ages could have our health care entirely defunded by this bill. If you can call your reps, it would mean a lot. Contact info in the thread.

My calendar for the next few days. Send help

What 15 years of design debt looks like