Tony Ward
@tonyward.dev
I love building Design Systems and tools to help teams ship faster.
https://www.tonyward.dev
https://www.github.com/ynotdraw
Design Systems. Web Components. Dad stuff. Music. Basketball.
https://www.tonyward.dev
https://www.github.com/ynotdraw
Design Systems. Web Components. Dad stuff. Music. Basketball.
Have a very active (almost) 6 year old. Play games in the morning. Hit the community center, basketball practice, and/or ninja class in the afternoon. Board/card games in the evening while throwing football indoors.
Winters are hard. Summer is lots of bike riding/messing around outside.
Winters are hard. Summer is lots of bike riding/messing around outside.
January 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Have a very active (almost) 6 year old. Play games in the morning. Hit the community center, basketball practice, and/or ninja class in the afternoon. Board/card games in the evening while throwing football indoors.
Winters are hard. Summer is lots of bike riding/messing around outside.
Winters are hard. Summer is lots of bike riding/messing around outside.
Are we the same exact person?!? I think so…
January 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Are we the same exact person?!? I think so…
20-something years of horrible posture has really caught up to me 😅
January 12, 2026 at 12:12 PM
20-something years of horrible posture has really caught up to me 😅
Super cool being at that age where if I don’t stretch or run every day, my body feels terrible.
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Super cool being at that age where if I don’t stretch or run every day, my body feels terrible.
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I've seen a number of people request a way to imperatively link a form control and a label via a property such as .forElement on the label. Can you send me your concrete use cases if you're one of these people?
January 9, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I've seen a number of people request a way to imperatively link a form control and a label via a property such as .forElement on the label. Can you send me your concrete use cases if you're one of these people?
Hi there! I think these APIs may require some sort of paid level seat. You could contact @figma.com support for verification.
January 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Hi there! I think these APIs may require some sort of paid level seat. You could contact @figma.com support for verification.
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there is something off about this design - it's the vertical text alignment
this new CSS feature just made aligning text 100x easier
this new CSS feature just made aligning text 100x easier
January 7, 2026 at 9:12 PM
there is something off about this design - it's the vertical text alignment
this new CSS feature just made aligning text 100x easier
this new CSS feature just made aligning text 100x easier
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Week of January 4, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-1-4
January 3, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Week of January 4, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-1-4
Hell yeah. Welcome back 🤝
January 3, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Hell yeah. Welcome back 🤝
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you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.
here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
henry.codes
January 1, 2026 at 7:27 PM
you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.
here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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📣 We just published our End-of-Year / Happy Holidays Lit releases!
- 👩⚕️ Many bug fixes!
- 📄 A new lit-labs/forms packages for form-associated elements!
- 🎾 A new Spring controller in lit-labs/motion!
- 🏎️ Massive SSR performance improvements!
- 🧩 A lit-html template parser in lit-labs/analyzer
- 👩⚕️ Many bug fixes!
- 📄 A new lit-labs/forms packages for form-associated elements!
- 🎾 A new Spring controller in lit-labs/motion!
- 🏎️ Massive SSR performance improvements!
- 🧩 A lit-html template parser in lit-labs/analyzer
December 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
📣 We just published our End-of-Year / Happy Holidays Lit releases!
- 👩⚕️ Many bug fixes!
- 📄 A new lit-labs/forms packages for form-associated elements!
- 🎾 A new Spring controller in lit-labs/motion!
- 🏎️ Massive SSR performance improvements!
- 🧩 A lit-html template parser in lit-labs/analyzer
- 👩⚕️ Many bug fixes!
- 📄 A new lit-labs/forms packages for form-associated elements!
- 🎾 A new Spring controller in lit-labs/motion!
- 🏎️ Massive SSR performance improvements!
- 🧩 A lit-html template parser in lit-labs/analyzer
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Oh hey, come work with me!
We're seeking an earlier-career front-end dev who is able to work in-office (multiple US locations).
Check it out if you have interest and experience in: #designsystems #CSS #a11y #webcomponents
adobe.design/jobs/job-pos...
We're seeking an earlier-career front-end dev who is able to work in-office (multiple US locations).
Check it out if you have interest and experience in: #designsystems #CSS #a11y #webcomponents
adobe.design/jobs/job-pos...
Design Engineer, Spectrum Web
Join us and help build the next generation of our world-famous tools.
adobe.design
December 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Oh hey, come work with me!
We're seeking an earlier-career front-end dev who is able to work in-office (multiple US locations).
Check it out if you have interest and experience in: #designsystems #CSS #a11y #webcomponents
adobe.design/jobs/job-pos...
We're seeking an earlier-career front-end dev who is able to work in-office (multiple US locations).
Check it out if you have interest and experience in: #designsystems #CSS #a11y #webcomponents
adobe.design/jobs/job-pos...
Vampire on My Fridge by Low Roar on Apple Music
Song · 2014 · Duration 6:30
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December 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Damn this is beautiful. Can’t wait to check it out!
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Damn this is beautiful. Can’t wait to check it out!
Oh this is nice! Didn’t catch this. Thanks!
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Oh this is nice! Didn’t catch this. Thanks!
I was about to fire up a playground to test if they work across shadow roots. But maybe I’ll be lazy here — do you know? I imagine they do not.
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I was about to fire up a playground to test if they work across shadow roots. But maybe I’ll be lazy here — do you know? I imagine they do not.
Yeah, spot on. Apparently it's a thing in Mississippi now too. I get what they're after, and fully support children not being on social media. Especially after reading Jonathan Haidt's books.
I just don't trust third party services with my data. :(
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
I just don't trust third party services with my data. :(
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
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bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Yeah, spot on. Apparently it's a thing in Mississippi now too. I get what they're after, and fully support children not being on social media. Especially after reading Jonathan Haidt's books.
I just don't trust third party services with my data. :(
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
I just don't trust third party services with my data. :(
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
100%. Back to email and RSS.
I may be able to give it access to my general location, but ugh. I miss the old internet 😂
I may be able to give it access to my general location, but ugh. I miss the old internet 😂
December 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
100%. Back to email and RSS.
I may be able to give it access to my general location, but ugh. I miss the old internet 😂
I may be able to give it access to my general location, but ugh. I miss the old internet 😂
This is what I see going to the messages tab.
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is what I see going to the messages tab.
Welp. No more DMs here. Need my SSN, a credit card, or ID? Fuck that.
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Welp. No more DMs here. Need my SSN, a credit card, or ID? Fuck that.
No problem at all! Been serving me (and a few others I know) well for quite some time now.
There are a few other paths, as you can imagine, if a bucket isn't available to you. But the bucket path is definitely the most smooth from a DX perspective. Good luck!
There are a few other paths, as you can imagine, if a bucket isn't available to you. But the bucket path is definitely the most smooth from a DX perspective. Good luck!
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
No problem at all! Been serving me (and a few others I know) well for quite some time now.
There are a few other paths, as you can imagine, if a bucket isn't available to you. But the bucket path is definitely the most smooth from a DX perspective. Good luck!
There are a few other paths, as you can imagine, if a bucket isn't available to you. But the bucket path is definitely the most smooth from a DX perspective. Good luck!
I’ve got an article for you! Let me know if you want to chat about it some time.
www.tonyward.dev/articles/vis...
www.tonyward.dev/articles/vis...
www.tonyward.dev
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I’ve got an article for you! Let me know if you want to chat about it some time.
www.tonyward.dev/articles/vis...
www.tonyward.dev/articles/vis...
Yup yup. Previously used Web Test Runner as well, but Playwright is quite nice in comparison. Takes some additional setup for web components, but it’s not bad. The Playwright APIs are quite nice! So are features like traces, UI mode, built-in visual snapshots, etc.
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Yup yup. Previously used Web Test Runner as well, but Playwright is quite nice in comparison. Takes some additional setup for web components, but it’s not bad. The Playwright APIs are quite nice! So are features like traces, UI mode, built-in visual snapshots, etc.