Jim

🎉 Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

Young Black copper maran rooster

This is Baby Billy. My first nice rooster (so far) who welcomes my arrival by offering me food and dancing at my feet.

repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover

Ducks huddled in the snow.

My North Carolina ducks think this is some bullshit. First their pool is frozen and now this.

So I finally have a reason to fire up the Disney+ app again?

Comfortably iced in. A day of coffee, soups, and tea.

One thing I’ve learned this winter is a greenhouse needs some type of emergency heat source on ready. It’s not heated by magic in extreme cold.

Lovely morning with the trees glistening in frozen precipitation.

I’ve begun buying Blu-Rays for movies I love. I haven’t bought physical media for films since the peak of Netflix DVDs by mail. That’s how much trust tech companies have lost.

We still consider Musk in the fold? That’s where my money would be.

Post a car picture you took

Bluebird on a tree branch.

I traded in 3 lenses I have barely used for a big long lens to capture images if pretty birds in my backyard, like this Bluebird. We need to find our happy places wherever we can these days. #birds #birdwatching

Fuck right off with this shit.

Fresh chicken eggs. Green, pink, and brown.

The new girls have started laying. Three more to go. #chickens #backyardchickens

If they treated money as a tool instead of a competition metric against other tools…

Black copper maran rooster

Closeup of a black copper maran rooster

This week is sucking hard. So here’s some photos of a young black copper maran rooster. (I lost the straight run game and have 4 these guys…. and 1 hen)

Spent some time in the emergency room last night (not me. everyone is fine) and passed the time making photos for one of my ongoing projects. I am an artist.

Chickens molting on the coldest days is nature’s cruel joke.

Molting brown chicken looking miserable

Molting brown chicken looking miserable

This poor girls molt has been brutal.

I’ve found Bluesky for interaction design & art, Glass for photos, mastodon for coding. You need to weigh the value of supporting the gram vs letting the stragglers go.

Time to dust off the treadmill and rowing machine.

Suddenly in the mood to play Doom. Maybe Doom 2.

HTTP Archive: Page Weight This report tracks the size and quantity of many popular web page resources. Sizes represent the number of bytes sent over the network, which may be compressed.

How broken is today's frontend culture?

A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:

httparchive.org/reports/page...

How does one improve their VO2 max? Asking for someone who desperately needs to.

He’s big on the TikyTok

I built a greenhouse

Purchasing something from your business should not sign me up to your email marketing hellscape.

Thanks! Still more to do but happy to get the ladies moved in.

In progress chicken coop build

Chickens in the chicken coop

Chickens in the chicken coop

Chickens in the chicken coop

Coop progress. #chickencoop

Thank god. I’m glad we’re still focused on the shit that matters.