Dear Anthropic, Just incase no one told you, these overlay components with suggested tasks are NOT typically called chips. Sincerely, A design systems practitioner who...
Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦
@samiamdesigns.bsky.social
Freelance Design Systems Lead 🎨📐 Host @ Into Design Systems 👩🎨 Creative weirdo 🖤 🏡🎶 House music selectress 🌅 Sky chaser (She/Her)
It's wild to me that there isn't an easy way understand the relationships between language - writing system - design systems (typography - computer programming - design tooling). 🤯
Currently unsubscribing to every email newsletter in my inbox and selectively adding them to an RSS feed. 💌 Pleasently surprised how many sites have RSS feeds out of the box even when they aren't advertised by adding /RSS after the URL 🙌
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.
Pam Beesly from The Office
Alt: Pam Beesly from The Office places a takeaway container in the garbage bin from behind her desk
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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
Home — Digital Independence Day
On the first Sunday of each month we organise Digital Independence Day. This is when we reclaim our digital freedom and switch to democracy-friendly digital alternatives.
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The State of CSS survey is out! It's shorter this year! Please go take it! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
State of CSS 2026
Take the State of CSS survey
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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!
The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
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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 @shadeed9@front-end.social: https://ishadeed.com/article/css-round/?ref=frontenddogma.com #css #functions #liquiddesign
Better fluid sizing with round()
Using the round() function to get a more predictable fluid sizing.
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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
Murphy Trueman@murphytrueman.com · 6mo agoWe built Figma to solve the problem of sharing component code. It worked. Then the tooling became the deliverable and we stopped asking what it was for. Agentic tools are doing the same thing. blog.murphytrueman.com/p/were-getti...
Reasons why it's been 5 years of trying and I still don't fully get Git in infographic form...
GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️⚧️🎄@glairedaggers.bsky.social · 6mo agooh.... my god?? actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw
~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
Who will I see in the chat? I'm doing something totally different this time 🎶🎧👩🏼💻
SmashingConf@smashingconf.com · 6mo agoHappening next week! Smashing Meets Design Systems. With the lovely @samiamdesigns.bsky.social @bencallahan.com and David Wieland. Hosted by our lovely @geoffgraham.me. 🕰️ Wednesday, February 11, Tickets are free! smashingconf.com/meets-design...
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...
A Better Figma MCP or How To Let Claude Design
The one where we give Claude access to the Figma API
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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...