Dillon Schultz

An image of various book covers and a DVD. The titles include: “Horror Movie” by Paul Tremblay, “Suggested in the Stars” by Yōko Tawada, “Grey Dog” by Elliot Gish, “Everything is Tuberculosis” by John Green, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad, “What Moves the Dead” by T. Kingfisher, “The Memory Police” by Yōko Ogawa, “Sour Cherry” by Natalia Theodoridou, and “Mulholland Dr.” directed by David Lynch.

My Independent Bookstore Day haul

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

I had Shrek Fairytale Freakdown for the Game Boy Color growing up, and I still think about it to this day.

merit is back baby

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

The Gang Illegally Shares U.S. War Planning Details With A Journalist

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

Implementing Light and Dark Mode with Style Dictionary (part 2) Implement light and dark modes in your design system using Style Dictionary. Learn to automate design tokens for seamless theming.

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📰 Implementing Light and Dark Modes with Style Dictionary(part 2)

In part 2 we look at how we can:
- nest inside data attribute or classes
- use the CSS light-dark() function

🌐 www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/a-d...

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#DesignTokens #WebDev #WebDesign #DesignSystems #FrontEnd

designtokens.fyi Defining terms for design tokens.

OH HELL YEAH. A mega-helpful glossary for design tokens by @donnie.damato.design: designtokens.fyi

Every day I have to hear about some asshole

una.im | New capabilities for attr() Advanced attr() is landing in Chrome 133, and I'm really excited for this feature! Here's a bit about it and how you can use it.

Dang I'm excited about new semantic attr() capabilities in CSS!

I wrote a post about why this feature is so powerful, how it could change the way you build components, and how I would use it.

Advanced attr() is rolling out in Chrome 133 starting next week 🥰

una.im/advanced-attr/

A Design Tokens Workflow (part 5) - Organising Outputs with Style Dictionary | Always Twisted Learn how to organize design token outputs with Style Dictionary. Generate modular SCSS files from tokens for scalability, clarity, and team collaboration.

👀 brb, just working my way through 759 lines of CSS to find the right custom property (design token) to use.

If you want to easily find the right design decision in your codebase, check out this article on "Organising Outputs with Style Dictionary".

www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/a-d...

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🛠️ New Interactive Article: Balancing Text In CSS

I explored text balancing in CSS — what it is, the problems it solves, how it works, and included plenty of examples and use cases. Happy balancing! ⚖️

ishadeed.com/article/bala...

4 columns of color shown: from color to 100% lightness, from color to white, from color to black, from color to 0% lightness

#CSS color

what's the difference between adjusting lightness, adding white, and adding black?

feel it out, here in this Codepen

column
1: from color to 100% lightness
2: from color to white
3. from color to black
4. from color to 0% lightness

codepen.io/argyleink/pe...

screenshot of the GUI which shows the syntax and makes the syntax interactive

Chromium: Intent to Ship in v133
#CSS `text-box`, `text-box-trim` and `text-box-edge`

groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

this feature is RAD.

try it in Canary with this syntax explorer visualizer tool I'm hackin on
codepen.io/argyleink/fu...

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Design Tokens Workflow (part 4) - Converting Tokens with Style Dictionary 🎨🔧

Learn how to adapt tokens for web, Android, iOS, & beyond with practical examples of key & value transformations.

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#DesignTokens #StyleDictionary #UXDesign

React v19 – React The library for web and native user interfaces

Hey everyone! React v19 has been released! react.dev/blog/2024/12...

The Sorry State of States Today’s Figma assets show design could align better with code

The Sorry State of States:
Today’s Figma assets show design could align better with code

medium.com/@nathanacurt...

Demystifying Figma’s Variable Mode Inheritance The Grammarly Design team uses Figma to design the product experiences that help teams communicate and do their best work. Our design system team uses…

If you're into Figma and mode inheritance and things like that, you might like this post I wrote for the Grammarly blog. www.grammarly.com/blog/enginee...

CSS for detecting device posture 🥼

@​media (device-posture: folded) {
h1 span:first-of-type { opacity: 0.25; }
}

some cool future opportunities 🤙

Me adjusting the corner radius

The Right built a powerful, partisan, & participatory media environment to support its messaging, which offers a compelling "deep story" for its participants. The Left relied upon rigid, self-preserving institutional media and its "story" is little more than a defense of imperfect institutions.

Design Tokens and CSS: Systemising the Design of Components by Stuart Robson Aren’t Design Tokens just spicy Sass variables?

My last speaking engagement was at (probably) one of the last irl web conferences before the Covid-19 lockdowns, and I’ve just seen that my slides have tipped over 2800 views –

Design Tokens and CSS: Systemising the design of your components

noti.st/sturobson/H9...

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This is Archie and Bug.

Design Systems Join the conversation

Making a #DesignSystems Starter Pack 👍🏻

Tech Giants See AI Bets Starting to Pay Off Microsoft, Google and Amazon report strong growth in cloud revenue, but warn of increased spending

again: this isnt AI “paying off.” this is selling garden trowels at the height of tulip speculation

Well, now that we can do video, it means this video can be posted here, which apparently started over on the other site. Noah Garfinkel noticed that Trump's claim about eating cats and dogs fits with the Peanuts theme song & then someone made a longer version of it.