David Darnes
@darn.es
Senior Engineer working on Polaris at Shopify
Previously: @zeroheight.com, Nord Design System, @ghost.org.
Clients: Google, @buffer.com and @netlify.com.
[he/him]
https://darn.es
https://designsystems.wtf
#DesignSystems, #WebComponents & #Frontend
Previously: @zeroheight.com, Nord Design System, @ghost.org.
Clients: Google, @buffer.com and @netlify.com.
[he/him]
https://darn.es
https://designsystems.wtf
#DesignSystems, #WebComponents & #Frontend
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David Darnes
@darn.es
· Nov 1
Hey new followers 👋🏻
My name is Dave and I’m into #DesignSystems, #WebComponents, #CSS, #Frontend, #Lego, #Coffee, and chronic shitposting. Enjoy the ride ☕️
My name is Dave and I’m into #DesignSystems, #WebComponents, #CSS, #Frontend, #Lego, #Coffee, and chronic shitposting. Enjoy the ride ☕️
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Birds flying in suburbs:
I HATE WINDOWS
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Birds flying in suburbs:
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absolutely cursed idea: implement CSS mixins today using animations
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
absolutely cursed idea: implement CSS mixins today using animations
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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New post on setting up a @astro.build Content Collection Loader to load my Ghost CMS posts
jonathanyeong.com/writing/load...
jonathanyeong.com/writing/load...
Loading Ghost CMS posts with Astro Content Collections
A guide to how I created a custom Astro content collection loader to fetch content from Ghost CMS and load them alongside my existing markdown files
jonathanyeong.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
New post on setting up a @astro.build Content Collection Loader to load my Ghost CMS posts
jonathanyeong.com/writing/load...
jonathanyeong.com/writing/load...
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This is still on today 🥳
Haven’t promoted my book much this year but today’s a good day to share:
The Design for Developers eBook is 50% off.
It’s written to be evergreen — UX foundations, visual principles, color, typography, and more. A reference you can return to again and again.
🛍️ www.manning.com/books/design...
The Design for Developers eBook is 50% off.
It’s written to be evergreen — UX foundations, visual principles, color, typography, and more. A reference you can return to again and again.
🛍️ www.manning.com/books/design...
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is still on today 🥳
Interesting, second time I’ve seen someone get hit with a fine because their website made a cached copy of an open graph image from another site. In this case its Ghost scraping the site (cc @alistairshepherd.uk)
Bookmark thumbnails triggering copyright violation claims
Issue Summary I included a bookmark pointing to the Guardian website in a public article here: Stop Rosebank — More than just a Bad Deal for the UK The bookmark widget renders a beautiful short s...
forum.ghost.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Interesting, second time I’ve seen someone get hit with a fine because their website made a cached copy of an open graph image from another site. In this case its Ghost scraping the site (cc @alistairshepherd.uk)
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Reposted by David Darnes
CSS piccalil.li/complete-css
HTML (actually frontend a11y) practical-accessibility.today
JavaScript piccalil.li/javascript-f...
Design piccalil.li/mindful-design
A full suite of courses for people working on the web 💜
HTML (actually frontend a11y) practical-accessibility.today
JavaScript piccalil.li/javascript-f...
Design piccalil.li/mindful-design
A full suite of courses for people working on the web 💜
Mindful Design is here!
You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50
That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses!
piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...
You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50
That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses!
piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...
Mindful Design
A high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalilli.link
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
CSS piccalil.li/complete-css
HTML (actually frontend a11y) practical-accessibility.today
JavaScript piccalil.li/javascript-f...
Design piccalil.li/mindful-design
A full suite of courses for people working on the web 💜
HTML (actually frontend a11y) practical-accessibility.today
JavaScript piccalil.li/javascript-f...
Design piccalil.li/mindful-design
A full suite of courses for people working on the web 💜
CSS piccalil.li/complete-css
HTML (actually frontend a11y) practical-accessibility.today
JavaScript piccalil.li/javascript-f...
Design piccalil.li/mindful-design
A full suite of courses for people working on the web 💜
HTML (actually frontend a11y) practical-accessibility.today
JavaScript piccalil.li/javascript-f...
Design piccalil.li/mindful-design
A full suite of courses for people working on the web 💜
Mindful Design is here!
You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50
That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses!
piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...
You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50
That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses!
piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...
Mindful Design
A high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalilli.link
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
CSS piccalil.li/complete-css
HTML (actually frontend a11y) practical-accessibility.today
JavaScript piccalil.li/javascript-f...
Design piccalil.li/mindful-design
A full suite of courses for people working on the web 💜
HTML (actually frontend a11y) practical-accessibility.today
JavaScript piccalil.li/javascript-f...
Design piccalil.li/mindful-design
A full suite of courses for people working on the web 💜
Reposted by David Darnes
Mindful Design is here!
You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50
That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses!
piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...
You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50
That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses!
piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...
Mindful Design
A high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalilli.link
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Mindful Design is here!
You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50
That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses!
piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...
You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50
That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses!
piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...
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692: Killer Feature of Web Components, Skills > MCP, and Streaming HTML?
Dave has famous people blindness, a cologne life hack is dropped, what is the killer feature of web components, MCPs are so done—focus on skills instead, should custom events exist, and thoughts about streaming HMTL.
Dave has famous people blindness, a cologne life hack is dropped, what is the killer feature of web components, MCPs are so done—focus on skills instead, should custom events exist, and thoughts about streaming HMTL.
692: Killer Feature of Web Components, Skills > MCP, and Streaming HTML?
Dave has famous people blindness, a cologne life hack is dropped, what is the killer feature of web components, MCPs are so done—focus on skills instead, should custom events exist, and thoughts about streaming HMTL.
shoptalkshow.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
692: Killer Feature of Web Components, Skills > MCP, and Streaming HTML?
Dave has famous people blindness, a cologne life hack is dropped, what is the killer feature of web components, MCPs are so done—focus on skills instead, should custom events exist, and thoughts about streaming HMTL.
Dave has famous people blindness, a cologne life hack is dropped, what is the killer feature of web components, MCPs are so done—focus on skills instead, should custom events exist, and thoughts about streaming HMTL.
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Good morning coffee
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Good morning coffee
Updated home internet infrastructure with only one casualty, Raspberry Pi doesn’t understand its own internal IP
November 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Updated home internet infrastructure with only one casualty, Raspberry Pi doesn’t understand its own internal IP
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NGL this is kinda accurate lol
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NGL this is kinda accurate lol
Biblically accurate Belgian
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Biblically accurate Belgian
Getting myself “Bog Body” ready for winter
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Getting myself “Bog Body” ready for winter
Me when my friends post a single photo of a coffee shop
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Me when my friends post a single photo of a coffee shop
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Great value!
📣 Hear hear! The biggest savings on the Practical Accessibility course start *today*—for a limited time only.
Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.
The Practical Accessibility Course
A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today
practical-accessibility.today
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Great value!
Alt: A rapper wearing a "Thursday the 20th" chain necklace in an episode of The Simpsons
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Alt: A rapper wearing a "Thursday the 20th" chain necklace in an episode of The Simpsons
Website log out screen but it fades to black with Linkin Park’s ‘What I’ve done’
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Website log out screen but it fades to black with Linkin Park’s ‘What I’ve done’
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Oh look @michaelwarren.dev with @kevinpowell.co on one of my favorite topics — web components!
youtu.be/qUhtlnL48yA?...
youtu.be/qUhtlnL48yA?...
How to use Web Components, and why you'd want to
YouTube video by Kevin Powell
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Oh look @michaelwarren.dev with @kevinpowell.co on one of my favorite topics — web components!
youtu.be/qUhtlnL48yA?...
youtu.be/qUhtlnL48yA?...