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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 21h ago

Every Design Systems team member knows the feeling. You create beautifully documented tokens, components and guidelines (the recipe card) and what ships ends up looking like James Acaster's flapjacks. Same instructions. Wildly different outcomes. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/the... 🙏🖤

James Acaster's Flapjacks on Bake Off

Alt: James Acaster stood at a work bench with Pru, Paul, and Sandy on the great British bake off - he is asked "can you tell us about your flapjacks, please?" and replies - "started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetit"

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jumping up the to be written list.

Stuart Robson@sturobson.com · 21h ago

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 24h ago

need to think about what information is really needed when you get going - should be good fun to use lots of new CSS units too

a cropped shot of my desktop with two open applications. One is bear - a markdown editor - that is dark blue with yellow text. The yellow text reads 'new article idea'. To the bottom right is another application - this is titled pomodoro-ye-e-ah! a PWA pomodoro app I am building. Currently the window shows all the details - the time, buttons to start/stop/reset. Inputs for the length of the work time and length of break time and calmative 'stats' for how many work times you have finished

but hopefully more useful. HomePad code suggests it’ll act like a giant Apple Watch https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/19/homepad-code-suggests-itll-act-like-a-giant-apple-watch/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

HomePad code suggests it'll act like a giant Apple Watch - 9to5Mac

The latest macOS 26.7 beta appears to have revealed quite a lot about a number of upcoming Apple home products....

9to5mac.com

any usable alternatives to "pissed on my chips"

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it's raining. for sale - 14 brand new bags of charcoal.

Every Design Systems team member knows the feeling. You create beautifully documented tokens, components and guidelines (the recipe card) and what ships ends up looking like James Acaster's flapjacks. Same instructions. Wildly different outcomes. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/the... 🙏🖤

James Acaster's Flapjacks on Bake Off

Alt: James Acaster stood at a work bench with Pru, Paul, and Sandy on the great British bake off - he is asked "can you tell us about your flapjacks, please?" and replies - "started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetit"

static.klipy.com

I’ve just seen the recent two minute specialist subject questions on Madtermind … I’ll be spending the day listening to a bit of Iron Maiden.

Liam Lawson replacing an injured Hadjar this weekend means I’ll be cheering on Tsunoda once again. Come on Yuki! #DutchGP

💡 silly little PWA idea #32 might carve out some time to try building it tomorrow.

enjoying the (lightly updated) celebrity #Masterchef.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Burnham Bounce continues

Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas specials cancelled after star breaks jaw

🎉 New Article The Recipe Isn't The Bake - What Design Systems Need Beyond Documentation Same recipe. Same tent. Wildly different bakes. Design system documentation works the same way,. The docs aren't enough on their own. Maintainers make the difference. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/the... 🙏🖤

The Recipe Isn't The Bake - What Design Systems Need Beyond Documentation

Why documentation alone does not make a design system work, and why maintainers, context, and feedback loops matter in real product teams.

alwaystwisted.com

fifty thousand tears I've cried … when I noticed that Evanescence released the single - Going Under - 23 years ago today

🎉 New Article The Recipe Isn't The Bake - What Design Systems Need Beyond Documentation Same recipe. Same tent. Wildly different bakes. Design system documentation works the same way,. The docs aren't enough on their own. Maintainers make the difference. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/the... 🙏🖤

The Recipe Isn't The Bake - What Design Systems Need Beyond Documentation

Why documentation alone does not make a design system work, and why maintainers, context, and feedback loops matter in real product teams.

alwaystwisted.com

As AI starts s(h)itting between folks and the docs, this role becomes more critical. AI can make everything move faster. The good stuff and the mistakes alike. You need humans in the loop.

the man absolutely fucking loves buses www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham scraps restrictions on disabled people’s bus passes in England

Move means holders will be able to travel free on local services at any time of day or night from April next year

theguardian.com

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Do people feel comfortable admitting they don't understand a guideline? Are they encouraged to question the system? Or is the system treated as dogma? Or a benevolent dictatorship?

spending the day - working on the "GBBO + Design Systems" post for my site - working on a typography article for a 3rd party - refining a codepen for the typography article - streaming day one of NV v. Duane 'Keffe D' Davis w/ Emily D. Baker

working on a little demo for a little bit of CSS for a little article…

a 'sidebar' with the title of - tidy typography css - underneath are several checkboxes for CSS features like - font smooting, tabular numbers, leading trim, hyphenation and more.

There is also a 'reset' button and a button to test the CQI css unit

"Something takes a part of me. Something lost and never seen." Korn released the album - Follow The Leader - 28 years ago today.

need a new soft toy‽ https://www.dreadcentral.com/toys-collectibles/585321/this-alien-earth-sheep-plush-comes-with-a-removable-eyeball-parasite/

This ‘Alien: Earth’ Sheep Plush Comes With a Removable Eyeball Parasite

The sheep from 'Alien: Earth' is getting its own 13-inch collectible plush, complete with the creature’s most important accessory.

dreadcentral.com

kinda wild that we nearly had… Will Smith as Neo Val Kilmer as Morpheus Sandra Bullock as Trinity It wouldn’t’ve worked.

blog-and-response’ing "shadowDomPiercer": { "strategy": "DaveRupert" }