Dave House
@iknowdavehouse.bsky.social
Trying to get back into some level of code after a few years locked out due to work machine restrictions…
Cannot even set up my machine 😂 zsh what?
Cannot even set up my machine 😂 zsh what?
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Trying to get back into some level of code after a few years locked out due to work machine restrictions…
Cannot even set up my machine 😂 zsh what?
Cannot even set up my machine 😂 zsh what?
“Ask for forgiveness not permission”
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“Ok then, I don’t forgive you”
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“What do you mean?”
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“Ok then, I don’t forgive you”
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“What do you mean?”
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
“Ask for forgiveness not permission”
…
“Ok then, I don’t forgive you”
…
“What do you mean?”
…
“Ok then, I don’t forgive you”
…
“What do you mean?”
Got a break between the days downpour for an autumnal cruise in the ‘62.
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Got a break between the days downpour for an autumnal cruise in the ‘62.
@guysegal.com delivered a wonderfully poignant talk on recognising the root cause of team frustration, safety and ultimately recognising being in a design system team can feel like an emotional merry go round
October 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
@guysegal.com delivered a wonderfully poignant talk on recognising the root cause of team frustration, safety and ultimately recognising being in a design system team can feel like an emotional merry go round
Something that comes up almost every day in Design Systems space is an ever growing desire to just absolutely overload radio buttons with content.
Input Label
Essay
Input Label
Essay
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Something that comes up almost every day in Design Systems space is an ever growing desire to just absolutely overload radio buttons with content.
Input Label
Essay
Input Label
Essay
Haven’t blogged in ages. Sorry self publishers, still on the M site.
iknowdavehouse.medium.com/freedom-with...
iknowdavehouse.medium.com/freedom-with...
Freedom within a framework.
We do not strut… ever
iknowdavehouse.medium.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Haven’t blogged in ages. Sorry self publishers, still on the M site.
iknowdavehouse.medium.com/freedom-with...
iknowdavehouse.medium.com/freedom-with...
It’s not been the best year and it was my birthday last week so…
I now own a 1962 bug in beryl green with the best patina ever.
Spent most of its life in Washington state and has bags of history.
I now own a 1962 bug in beryl green with the best patina ever.
Spent most of its life in Washington state and has bags of history.
August 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It’s not been the best year and it was my birthday last week so…
I now own a 1962 bug in beryl green with the best patina ever.
Spent most of its life in Washington state and has bags of history.
I now own a 1962 bug in beryl green with the best patina ever.
Spent most of its life in Washington state and has bags of history.
Contribution in design systems is mostly people applying a go faster stripe to their own car and then asking Honda to include it as standard.
August 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Contribution in design systems is mostly people applying a go faster stripe to their own car and then asking Honda to include it as standard.
I’ve had this Design Systems meme in my head for quite a long time.
August 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’ve had this Design Systems meme in my head for quite a long time.
I appreciate this is pretty niche but have any of you web / a11y folk really dug into not being able to check a radio / checkbox with voice control e.g. dragon, if the label has any inline formatting… e.g. a span around a word etc
July 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I appreciate this is pretty niche but have any of you web / a11y folk really dug into not being able to check a radio / checkbox with voice control e.g. dragon, if the label has any inline formatting… e.g. a span around a word etc
I still don’t understand TikTok. I have 10 followers but my last post has had 43k views in a day 🤷
June 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I still don’t understand TikTok. I have 10 followers but my last post has had 43k views in a day 🤷
Talk to me: Has anyone had any success with a schema approach to form journeys that could be integrated with different software platforms or user input types?
June 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Talk to me: Has anyone had any success with a schema approach to form journeys that could be integrated with different software platforms or user input types?
Just had the absolute brainwave to distribute the contents of a freezer not by type of food but based on cooking time.
10 min shelf
15 min shelf
20 min shelf
25 min shelf
Gotta have a kids dinner ready in 10… pick only from that shelf. Yeah
10 min shelf
15 min shelf
20 min shelf
25 min shelf
Gotta have a kids dinner ready in 10… pick only from that shelf. Yeah
June 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Just had the absolute brainwave to distribute the contents of a freezer not by type of food but based on cooking time.
10 min shelf
15 min shelf
20 min shelf
25 min shelf
Gotta have a kids dinner ready in 10… pick only from that shelf. Yeah
10 min shelf
15 min shelf
20 min shelf
25 min shelf
Gotta have a kids dinner ready in 10… pick only from that shelf. Yeah
Would you say design / tech is at a peak ideological crossroad?
June 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Would you say design / tech is at a peak ideological crossroad?
Another Liquid Glass accessibility take you didn’t ask for. Is it the death nail for aligned cross platform UI? Is it another example of accessible only through user settings - with those settings only taking effect on the applications native to that device.
June 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Another Liquid Glass accessibility take you didn’t ask for. Is it the death nail for aligned cross platform UI? Is it another example of accessible only through user settings - with those settings only taking effect on the applications native to that device.
The revolution is just a t-shirt away
May 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The revolution is just a t-shirt away
For those of you that are unaware of my previous career as an unpopular musician. I put some stuff I found in the loft on my Bandcamp davehouse.bandcamp.com/merch
Including this 2004 esque shirt.
Including this 2004 esque shirt.
May 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
For those of you that are unaware of my previous career as an unpopular musician. I put some stuff I found in the loft on my Bandcamp davehouse.bandcamp.com/merch
Including this 2004 esque shirt.
Including this 2004 esque shirt.
Reposted by Dave House
Don't mess with zooming on a website.
Don't mess with scrolling on a website.
Don't mess with default cursors on a website.
Don't mess with the default Tab order.
Don't mess with the back button in the browser.
Thank you.
Don't mess with scrolling on a website.
Don't mess with default cursors on a website.
Don't mess with the default Tab order.
Don't mess with the back button in the browser.
Thank you.
May 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Don't mess with zooming on a website.
Don't mess with scrolling on a website.
Don't mess with default cursors on a website.
Don't mess with the default Tab order.
Don't mess with the back button in the browser.
Thank you.
Don't mess with scrolling on a website.
Don't mess with default cursors on a website.
Don't mess with the default Tab order.
Don't mess with the back button in the browser.
Thank you.
Reposted by Dave House
In order to sign into the Microsoft Authenticator app, it wants me to do 2FA using the... Microsoft Authenticator app
May 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
In order to sign into the Microsoft Authenticator app, it wants me to do 2FA using the... Microsoft Authenticator app
Ok @penpot.app got me with these 4 slides.
May 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Ok @penpot.app got me with these 4 slides.
Anyone going to the Penpot London meet up tonight?
May 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Anyone going to the Penpot London meet up tonight?
Found this artefact in my flower bed. What do you reckon it was used for? Apart from hand of the king…
May 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Found this artefact in my flower bed. What do you reckon it was used for? Apart from hand of the king…
API is pulling more data overall (includes secret teams it seems) but each team has fewer inserts through the API compared to the csv. Any ideas? Tens of thousands different…
Hi #designsystems folk. Has anyone had any issues with @figma.com’s analytics? We’ve been manually pulling them through the UI for a couple of years. Now we’ve written a script to do it and the numbers are vastly different.
scooby doo scratching his head with the words i 'm so confused written below him
Alt: scooby doo scratching his head with the words i 'm so confused written below him
media.tenor.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
API is pulling more data overall (includes secret teams it seems) but each team has fewer inserts through the API compared to the csv. Any ideas? Tens of thousands different…
Made a supercomputer known as DOPR (Design Operations Plan Response), programmed to continuously run user simulations and learn over time.
Unfortunately it’s increased the DEFCON level toward a stakeholder retaliation that will start World War III.
Unfortunately it’s increased the DEFCON level toward a stakeholder retaliation that will start World War III.
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Made a supercomputer known as DOPR (Design Operations Plan Response), programmed to continuously run user simulations and learn over time.
Unfortunately it’s increased the DEFCON level toward a stakeholder retaliation that will start World War III.
Unfortunately it’s increased the DEFCON level toward a stakeholder retaliation that will start World War III.