Would love to know the postmortem. Is it still getting used? what’s more popular tokens or components?

Copy the tokens and give it a link to the spec and be like “what’re the parts that are useful for us and then explain to me what any of this shit means”

But I am genuinely grateful for The Spec and very happy to finally breathe.

And. I just read a thing where Atlassian said they were, until v recently, just copy and pasting json into figma and auditing tokens that way? So like none of this shit really matters.

I still think just having a bunch of json files is fine. “Combotoriallaial explosion” isn’t in my vocabulary.

Like you have Brand A and Brand B jawns (modifiers? Idk) but you also want to have a fixed typography jawn and a fluid typography jawn.

codepen.io/jonneal/pen/... or css custom units 🙏

My god you nailed it. Just let designers design.

The docs: “accessible checkbox adheres to the WAI ARIA checkbox pattern so you know it’s good. Definitely don’t check for yourself”

“Doesn’t scale” is such a cop out reply. @stuffbreaker.bsky.social seriously huge props for trying to at least push this.

They need to come up with the right marketing name for it.

….brb launching my new startup

Idk maybe like salesforce and GitHub scale orgs tie your performance evaluations into how much you misuse the design system so this isn’t a problem for most people

Same but my god the shit I’ve seen people (myself included) do. The _doesn’t mean shit. Emoji all the way. I don’t think people care if it’s internal if it works. People will probably stumble upon the private var via dev tools, likely frustrated already.

I’m convinced the overlap of people that use angular and people that use web components is exactly 8 people.

The aria label is so good.

“Make it accessible”

Put this on a custom domain so I can constantly link to it. “You are not your fucking components”