Stephen Bell
@stephenjbell.bsky.social
Senior Design Technologist (front end dev) at a big nonprofit. Dad to two sets of twins. Canadian living in Oklahoma City. Love your neighbor.
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Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Merry Christmas!
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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...
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One thing I think is interesting about the people saying ‘generative AI is here to stay’ is that they are kinda ignoring that the current version of it is relatively cheap (or free) for the end user purely because the companies behind it a burning cash to make it so.
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
One thing I think is interesting about the people saying ‘generative AI is here to stay’ is that they are kinda ignoring that the current version of it is relatively cheap (or free) for the end user purely because the companies behind it a burning cash to make it so.
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Walking with other people who are grieving a loss is one way to ease some of the pain and feel less alone. n.pr/4iW5b13
The 'magic' of walking with grief
Walking with other people who are grieving a loss is one way to ease some of the pain and feel less alone.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Walking with other people who are grieving a loss is one way to ease some of the pain and feel less alone. n.pr/4iW5b13
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love www.youtube.com/watch?v=C87l...
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love www.youtube.com/watch?v=C87l...
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10 powerful ways to use #CSS variables
a non-exhaustive list, but a good one nonetheless!
nerdy.dev/custom-prop-...
a non-exhaustive list, but a good one nonetheless!
nerdy.dev/custom-prop-...
10 powerful ways to use CSS variables · January 26, 2023
Tokens, house props, adaptive props, pseudo-private props, partial props, mixin props, swappy props, style query props, meta lang props and typed props. Oh my!
nerdy.dev
December 3, 2024 at 11:49 PM
10 powerful ways to use #CSS variables
a non-exhaustive list, but a good one nonetheless!
nerdy.dev/custom-prop-...
a non-exhaustive list, but a good one nonetheless!
nerdy.dev/custom-prop-...
squircle!
*whispers* corner-shape 🤫👂
🟢 round
scoop
📐 bevel
⛏️ notch
⬛️ square
🐿️ squircle
🦹🏻♀️ superellipse
*Pass it on*
codepen.io/una/pen/PwNo...
🟢 round
scoop
📐 bevel
⛏️ notch
⬛️ square
🐿️ squircle
🦹🏻♀️ superellipse
*Pass it on*
codepen.io/una/pen/PwNo...
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
squircle!
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as a child I know I was definitely tempted to play in what appears to be an unmanned sawmill in the vacuum of space, but thankfully this PSA was there to set me straight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km4f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km4f...
I am Astar, a Robot PSA 1980s
YouTube video by Retrontario
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
as a child I know I was definitely tempted to play in what appears to be an unmanned sawmill in the vacuum of space, but thankfully this PSA was there to set me straight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km4f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km4f...
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lil' treat for all you weekend builders: Svelte now has an official MCP server, courtesy of resident bot wranglers @paolo.ricciuti.me and @khromov.se 🤖
it gives your LLM access to docs and compiler-driven diagnostics — give it a spin and let us know how you get on!
svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...
it gives your LLM access to docs and compiler-driven diagnostics — give it a spin and let us know how you get on!
svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...
Overview • Docs • Svelte
Overview • Svelte documentation
svelte.dev
October 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
lil' treat for all you weekend builders: Svelte now has an official MCP server, courtesy of resident bot wranglers @paolo.ricciuti.me and @khromov.se 🤖
it gives your LLM access to docs and compiler-driven diagnostics — give it a spin and let us know how you get on!
svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...
it gives your LLM access to docs and compiler-driven diagnostics — give it a spin and let us know how you get on!
svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.
September 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.
I bet the people who made the iOS app with the level in it (Measure) were ticked off when the hardware folks added the giant protruding cameras to iPhones.
Like, “Oh no! Every level is 2 degrees off!”
Like, “Oh no! Every level is 2 degrees off!”
September 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I bet the people who made the iOS app with the level in it (Measure) were ticked off when the hardware folks added the giant protruding cameras to iPhones.
Like, “Oh no! Every level is 2 degrees off!”
Like, “Oh no! Every level is 2 degrees off!”
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we are sinking way too many labor hours into creating software to summarize zoom meetings and way too few into adding translation features to the Merlin app
i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT
i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT
September 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
we are sinking way too many labor hours into creating software to summarize zoom meetings and way too few into adding translation features to the Merlin app
i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT
i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT
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People from across the political spectrum need to join together to condemn political violence, no matter who the target it is. It’s never acceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
People from across the political spectrum need to join together to condemn political violence, no matter who the target it is. It’s never acceptable.
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Thank god AI has finally solved the problem of there not being enough podcasts
September 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Thank god AI has finally solved the problem of there not being enough podcasts
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The transition from the world of typewriters to the universe of computers was meandering and lengthy. Traces of its many battles and decisions remain scattered across keyboards today—and no key better represents the complexity of that journey than the Return key.
The day Return became Enter
A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard
aresluna.org
September 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The transition from the world of typewriters to the universe of computers was meandering and lengthy. Traces of its many battles and decisions remain scattered across keyboards today—and no key better represents the complexity of that journey than the Return key.
Loudly, in my best Alex Trebeck voice:
September 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Loudly, in my best Alex Trebeck voice:
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Haven't realized this before but you can backtrack by one element in css with :has
August 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Haven't realized this before but you can backtrack by one element in css with :has
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What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
August 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.