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👋 currently looking for new client work 🖤 Design Systems Practitioner 🛠 Front-End Developer 📰 Curates Design Systems News 🏎️ Formula One Watcher 🧟‍♂ Horror Fan 🍖 BBQ’er 🖥️ www.alwaystwisted.com 📜 news.design.systems

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · Jun 5

👀 Looking for Design Systems consultancy or front-end development for your project?

📅 I have availability and would love to assist!

👇 Here's some of my recent work

💡 If you’ve got something coming up, let’s chat!

🌐 Visit www.alwaystwisted.com or email me at [email protected]

🙏🖤

A composition of elements from the Monotype Marketing Design System, featuring interactive type specimens, bold typography, and a user-friendly interface. The design adopts a minimalist aesthetic with black and red accents. The caption reads, 'Created the Monotype marketing Design System, developed tools for interactive type specimens, launched the Shopify storefront.'

A composition of elements from the Elements Design System homepage, featuring clean layouts, design tokens, and component guidelines. The design utilises a light theme with blue accents. The caption reads, 'Assisted with front-end work across multiple sites, helped create the new Design System documentation site, implemented design tokens.'

A composition of elements from the Visual Framework homepage for EMBL, showcasing design system guidelines, component examples, and accessibility features. The design employs a green and white colour scheme. The caption reads, 'Developed the front-end architecture and guidelines for EMBL's new Design System, ensuring scalability and maintainability throughout the project.'

A composition of elements from the UCL site-wide search system, highlighting search functionality, filters, and a clean user interface. The design features a modern layout with blue and white tones. The caption reads, 'Created the front-end for a comprehensive site-wide search system, enhancing UX and the existing Design System.'

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 9m

Froast! … bloody Froast!

a man in a black shirt is laying in a dark cave

Alt: a rotating, zooming in camera on original front man for the band Sepultura, singing and shaking their head

media.tenor.com

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 9h

we're down to 39 articles to read through for the @designsysnews.bsky.social newsletter.

With 16 links already in the hopper for up-coming editions.

a person in a hospital bed with a bandage on their head and the words i 'm back baby .

Alt: a scene from Friends where Joey rips a white balaclava type mask from their head and says "I'm back baby"

media.tenor.com

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 30m

just install via npm

Radiant G🌈✨ @radiantg.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of October, what’s a 4-word horror story only someone in your profession would get?

“Add a Battle Pass”

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 3d

You mean, like GTA?

Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 5h

this looks like it'd be darn tasty for some Design Systems work…

get sizes, colours, spacing, motion values from the parent and tweak them locally (e.g. ⁠--card-gap: calc(inherit(--gap) * 0.75)). Cleaner (fewer) tokens, fewer overrides, and smarter, context-aware components.

Yes!

IntentToShip @intenttoship.dev · 1d

Blink: Intent to Prototype: The inherit() CSS function

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 6h

👆came here to say this

Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 7h

it depends if you take language or literature, I took both - and failed (gave up) miserably.

Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 8h

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 8h

'been up since 6.

Now, do I have a massive bacon butty or an egg, bacon, spinach tortilla wrap.

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 9h

we're down to 39 articles to read through for the @designsysnews.bsky.social newsletter.

With 16 links already in the hopper for up-coming editions.

a person in a hospital bed with a bandage on their head and the words i 'm back baby .

Alt: a scene from Friends where Joey rips a white balaclava type mask from their head and says "I'm back baby"

media.tenor.com

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 1d

At last, today is the day. I am immensely proud to announce that JavaScript for Everyone is here.

Tell a friend, tell a Slack channel — write it on a slip of paper, fold it once, and slide it across your boss' desk without breaking eye contact. _It's time to get weird._

piccalil.li/javascript-f...

JavaScript for Everyone

A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

piccalil.li

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 2d

… and it goes a little something like this

a screen shot of part of a VSCode app project. Showing 2 json files and 2 css files.

The json files have font sizes that are generic and then specific then the css has the compiled output of the json generic and specific key values in css utility classes

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 1d

Good morning, America 👋

JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone!

The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it and super-charge your career.

PPP discounts available (and often cheaper) too!

JavaScript for Everyone

A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

piccalilli.link

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 1d

lush!

Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 1d

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

seeing light cycles and recognizers in the real world was pretty cool

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 1d

86,791 words later, countless rounds of thorough technical edits and a humongous team effort building custom infrastructure, JavaScript for Everyone is now ready and available to purchase.

piccalil.li/links/javasc...

JavaScript for Everyone is now available

86,791 words later, countless rounds of thorough technical edits and a humongous team effort building custom infrastructure, JavaScript for Everyone is now ready and available to purchase.

piccalil.li

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 1d

It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone!

The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it.

Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects

piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...

JavaScript for Everyone

A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

piccalilli.link

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 1d

Tables: Beyond Rows and Columns

www.tpgi.com/tables-beyon...

#a11y #FrontEnd #WebDesign #WebDev

Tables: Beyond Rows and Columns - TPGi — a Vispero company

This article explains the best way to use semantic table markup to present web content in accessible rows and columns.

www.tpgi.com

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Ahmad Shadeed @ishadeed.com · 1d

I'm planning a Defensive CSS workshop, focused on practical CSS and design tips that help build future proof user interfaces.

Would your team be interested if it's offered live or as a short recorded course?

More about Defensive CSS: defensivecss.dev

Ahmad speaking about Defensive CSS at Supermetrics headquarters in Helsinki, Finland.

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 1d

right it in Unwinese.

Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 2d

cooking ones:

www.youtube.com/@andy_cooks
www.youtube.com/@andycooksba...
www.youtube.com/@BrianLagers...
www.youtube.com/@SipandFeast

horror review/news/chat:

www.youtube.com/@Possessedby...

London history walks:

www.youtube.com/@Joolzguides

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 2d

… and it goes a little something like this

Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 2d

getting back to my little Design Tokens Workflow Series this week and working on a fresh article that walks us through the process of generating utility classes from our Design Tokens/

If you want to catch up, here's the last 12 articles of the series

www.alwaystwisted.com/series/

All Series Always Twisted

www.alwaystwisted.com

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Nordcraft @nordcraft.com · 2d

There are over 990000 seconds left to submit to the Bad UX World Cup!

Here's @whitep4nth3r.com taking a look at some of the terrible entries.

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 2d

"Resilient systems should layer these tools intentionally. Let Sass handle the design decisions that won’t change […] while CSS variables manage any dynamicism required."

CSS Custom Properties vs. Sass Variables: A Pragmatic Guide

www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/css...

CSS Custom Properties vs. Sass Variables: A Pragmatic Guide Always Twisted

when to use CSS custom properties vs Sass variables in design systems: runtime theming vs compile-time constants, dynamic flexibility vs immutable foundations

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 2d

I forgot that yesterday my internal monologue suggested I start Monday with the AC/DC back catalogue.

Starting it now...

Ridin' down the highway, goin' to a show
Stoppin' on the byways, playin' rock 'n' roll