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Tony Ward

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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.

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Sounds amazing, honestly.

05.08.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hell yeah!

05.08.2025 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Form and Field Validation | TanStack Form Lit Docs At the core of TanStack Form's functionalities is the concept of validation. TanStack Form makes validation highly customizable: You can control when to perform the validation (on change, on input, on...

Boom, much to @justinfagnani.com's delight (I assume :P) we have much more docs on the @tanstack.com Form Lit adapter as well as better examples:

tanstack.com/form/latest/...

04.08.2025 06:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The biggest threat to your design system is your need to be liked A system designed for everyone is a system that works for no one. On people-pleasing, performance punishment, and learning that I'm not for everyone.

Some of my most successful design systems work came from my worst people-pleasing tendencies. Seeking others' approval made systems flexible and widely adopted.

It left me emotionally spent and cost me my own opinion about what the system should be.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...

30.07.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Shure MV7 or MV7+ are solid. And then rode.com/en/products/...

30.07.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'll say it again: Every framework should be going all-in on first-class web components support.

With React eating the world, second-tier frameworks are often left behind. Web components are the scalable way for these projects to support multiple frameworks, and we should all encourage it.

25.07.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Can confirm ๐Ÿ˜‚

25.07.2025 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love this

22.07.2025 18:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Think I know exactly what youโ€™re talking about. Ugh.

18.07.2025 13:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is great, thank you Luke!

17.07.2025 14:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone happen to know the status of closedby for dialog elements in Safari? Having a hard time tracking down the progress.

17.07.2025 13:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Agreed. I find it helpful to brainstorm ideas back and forth with. Thatโ€™s probably my primary use these days. And if I forget syntax or how something works and want a quick validation. But when working tasks, most of the time itโ€™s faster and better for me to write it all myself still.

10.07.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really great read and matches my experiences.

10.07.2025 21:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Shiny bois are best bois (immediately thinking of Pokรฉmon shiny hunting)

09.07.2025 19:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

55 hours later, I wrapped up Death Stranding 2. Solid 8/10.

06.07.2025 01:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Still think about their show with BTBAM in 06. Great times. The always open mouth is a banger

05.07.2025 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Figma Files Registration Statement for Proposed IPO | Figma Blog An update on Figma's path to becoming a publicly traded company: our S-1 is now public.

Whoa. Figma going public.

www.figma.com/blog/s1-publ...

01.07.2025 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Literal lol

29.06.2025 22:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Donโ€™t forget the eagle scream at 2:30ish

27.06.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

HATE

Chug chug chug

27.06.2025 20:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whatโ€™s up with the design systems job market? After a dry era it seems like itโ€™s been getting way more traction over the past month or two with so many open positions.

A few places to start from:

โ€” Design Systems Jobs designsystems.jobs
โ€” Into Design Systems Jobs www.linkedin.com/company/into...

26.06.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Daaaaang. This would be very surprising.

25.06.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was laid-off and am looking for a new role.

Working were design meets code is my jam. I am skilled at building accessible design system components, working with Web Components APIs, and creating scalable CSS architecture.

I work remotely from my home in Manitoba, Canada. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Shares appreciated!

24.06.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 123    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Thinking about having a few open hours on Friday to chat with folks, mentor, etc. โ€” whatโ€™s a good scheduling app for something like this thatโ€™s free and not a pain to use?

24.06.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Youโ€™re the best in the business buddy! So happy to see how far youโ€™ve come since we met at PGL Indy all those years ago!

23.06.2025 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yup, thatโ€™s what I was super worried about. Literally mentioned it to a buddy today. Ugh. Feel so bad for him.

23.06.2025 00:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ugh. Man. Feel so bad for him. He came out swinging too and was ready ๐Ÿ˜ญ

23.06.2025 00:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fuck. Poor Hali

23.06.2025 00:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One more game, LFG.

22.06.2025 23:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Game 7, LFG

20.06.2025 03:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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