If I was thinking about doing a conference talk that relied on audio is that a very bad idea?

“You are absolutely right. I am deeply sorry for my repeated failure to accurately count to 59”

Trying to get back into some level of code after a few years locked out due to work machine restrictions… Cannot even set up my machine 😂 zsh what?

“Ask for forgiveness not permission” … “Ok then, I don’t forgive you” … “What do you mean?”

Got a break between the days downpour for an autumnal cruise in the ‘62.

@guysegal.com delivered a wonderfully poignant talk on recognising the root cause of team frustration, safety and ultimately recognising being in a design system team can feel like an emotional merry go round

Something that comes up almost every day in Design Systems space is an ever growing desire to just absolutely overload radio buttons with content. Input Label Essay

Haven’t blogged in ages. Sorry self publishers, still on the M site. iknowdavehouse.medium.com/freedom-with...

It’s not been the best year and it was my birthday last week so… I now own a 1962 bug in beryl green with the best patina ever. Spent most of its life in Washington state and has bags of history.

Contribution in design systems is mostly people applying a go faster stripe to their own car and then asking Honda to include it as standard.

I’ve had this Design Systems meme in my head for quite a long time.

I appreciate this is pretty niche but have any of you web / a11y folk really dug into not being able to check a radio / checkbox with voice control e.g. dragon, if the label has any inline formatting… e.g. a span around a word etc

I still don’t understand TikTok. I have 10 followers but my last post has had 43k views in a day 🤷

Talk to me: Has anyone had any success with a schema approach to form journeys that could be integrated with different software platforms or user input types?

Just had the absolute brainwave to distribute the contents of a freezer not by type of food but based on cooking time. 10 min shelf 15 min shelf 20 min shelf 25 min shelf Gotta have a kids dinner ready in 10… pick only from that shelf. Yeah

New specs day!

Would you say design / tech is at a peak ideological crossroad?

Another Liquid Glass accessibility take you didn’t ask for. Is it the death nail for aligned cross platform UI? Is it another example of accessible only through user settings - with those settings only taking effect on the applications native to that device.

The revolution is just a t-shirt away

For those of you that are unaware of my previous career as an unpopular musician. I put some stuff I found in the loft on my Bandcamp davehouse.bandcamp.com/merch Including this 2004 esque shirt.

Don't mess with zooming on a website. Don't mess with scrolling on a website. Don't mess with default cursors on a website. Don't mess with the default Tab order. Don't mess with the back button in the browser. Thank you.

In order to sign into the Microsoft Authenticator app, it wants me to do 2FA using the... Microsoft Authenticator app

Ok @penpot.app got me with these 4 slides.

Anyone going to the Penpot London meet up tonight?

Found this artefact in my flower bed. What do you reckon it was used for? Apart from hand of the king…

API is pulling more data overall (includes secret teams it seems) but each team has fewer inserts through the API compared to the csv. Any ideas? Tens of thousands different…

Made a supercomputer known as DOPR (Design Operations Plan Response), programmed to continuously run user simulations and learn over time. Unfortunately it’s increased the DEFCON level toward a stakeholder retaliation that will start World War III.

Anybody know if there’s a good / free way to collaborate on a logic session without packaging things up continuously? Like cloud session? Been out of the game for a long time.

Easter rig!

Solved it Design Systems - Sewer infrastructure Design Language - Bathroom Brand - We’re the best place to poo Product - What opportunities can we unlock in poo? C-level - We need people to poo more

TIL: <span>£158<span>.58</span></span> Will read “One hundred and fifty eight pounds, fifty eight pence”. Adding anything that adds CSS to the nested wrapper, inline or class… <span>£158<span class=“whatever-style”>.58</span></span> “One hundred and fifty eight pounds… fifty eight”.

Been working on my personal website in the middle of the night for a few days (when else?!). Very much WIP but coming together - Currently struggling with walking the line between CV / non-existent portfolio and a place to keep blogs (still medium links for now but determined to self publish)

Well I haven’t done any CSS in a while and it only took me 40 minutes to work out that seemingly just safari iOS does not like background-blend-mode if the element has a border. When I say does not like… it doesn’t work at all.

Every time I order some coffee from one of the digital order points I put my name down as Dave H. It’s a recognition of my super generic name. There was only 3 people in the coffee shop this morning so I lived dangerously and put it down as “Dave”. We were all named Dave.

If you’re the kind of person that looks at Figma analytics this post is for you. iknowdavehouse.medium.com/are-your-fig...

Don’t look at athletics content otherwise people will appear to be running the 400 million hurdles

If you want to try this I stuck it on GitHub with instructions of how to add to Chrome github.com/dashouse/num...

Made a little browser extension to translate numbers into words when you toggle a button. I've been thinking about it since listening to @accessiblenumbers.bsky.social Accessible Numbers podcast. I haven't quite cracked big numbers yet but just wondering if this would actually be useful?

Also for the 2 of you that are interested. I have pretty much completed my beetle chassis. And for those that were at my Converge talk… look a headless component.

In a break from the world going down the pan, I did win this absolutely giant Axolotl toy at the bowling alley. Best day of my daughter’s life I think.

If you’re into melodic emotive punk like Samiam / Iron Chic with a bit of something else check out Hidden Youth from Leeds’ new single. Banger. I was hearing a bit of Van Pelt in the spoken verses. youtu.be/K0TXBJiKLDE?...

NHS digital folks I may know. I was walking around a hospital and lost phone signal. My wife had signal so I logged in on her NHS app, got my details and logged out. Now every time I get a notification her phone gets a ghost notification. I cannot find an appropriate repo to raise this.

There is a correlation between bad design system days and ordering Nando’s on a Thursday.

Checked out new Figma style analytics. We have over 1.3 million instances of just one text token in files across the org. Very useful to know when making library updates!

I am low level obsessed with Sunshine On Leith by The Proclaimers

Seems like only yesterday. This place made me who I am. I still live by a lot of the values I learned here. True believers! Happy Birthday!

What adverts have been in your head for over a decade or two? I can’t tell you how many times I say “car insurance, stupid, just stupid” rolls around in there .

My niece's brain cancer is brutally awful and the family is really struggling. The whole thing is terrible, but the influx of donations has made me like humanity a lot more than I did this morning. The world is burning, but people are still turning up for our Rosie. gofund.me/9ed59b59

The department of Justice now wants to create criminal investigations for the work I do. slate.com/news-and-pol...

📼 Why Is Everything Binary? My latest on briefs.video. briefs.video/videos/why-i...