Henry Wilkinson

Leaflet is very cool but I already have a blog haha!

Thanks for the validation though, I’ve actually been thinking about writing some of this up more formally — will see about getting that done over the next few weeks.

lol I have only ever heard bad things about it

I’ll also note, to the credit of my former colleagues, that I was pretty resistant to switch away from Figma initially. Now I love not having to worry about mockup styling going out of date. It’s all just scribble lines! The component library code is the source of truth!

Hence the current system: Mockups in Excalidraw, design tokenize all colours, I can easily push component style changes with JSON & CSS

All the product decisions happen with low-fi mockups and all the style decisions happen in code!

This probably won’t scale, but it’s working for me for now!

Now I still care about how things look of course, but I design a lot of business SaaS. Most of that is taken care of by having a good component library, and that’s something I can work closely with one front-end engineer to achieve apparently.

They found the styling distracting and we were often talking past each other in product meetings because the way things looked and how they worked were both on screen, but we really needed to be on the same page about how it worked. How it looked was very much a secondary concern.

I still think that the high fidelity mockup process was very helpful for me there to figure out the long term product direction in the beginning though.

About half way through, some of the developers explicitly asked me to switch to lower fidelity mockups…

At my previous job I invested a bunch of time into a Figma component library that mirrored our front end. It was pretty good, but when I made changes to it, the priorities of the day took place over component style changes and I didn’t have the understanding of our codebase to fix it myself…

Sole designer, I work with a bunch of engineers.

I haven't even done high fidelity mockups on this job, only excalidraw and component library work. All of the actual styling and theming I do with design tokens & CSS.

I’ve been doing most of my UI / UX work with code and Excalidraw for more than a year now. Polished mockups can be handy sometimes, but the component library is a lot of up front investment and work to maintain.

Options to load release-level and/or track-level relations. · phw/picard@6b478a5

Better support than most companies! <3

Looks like the actual track rel = False default was added here in 2006! github.com/phw/picard/c...

What do I look like to you??? An AMATEUR metadata enjoyer?!

Yeah should have specified “by default” sorry.

But also, why isn’t that the default??? 🤔

Have you checked out Navidrome? It’s available on runtipi!

FWIW if this is user error then hey, it's on me, but the fact that the IDs are all written to the file is the real win here either way :)

Yeah, if it's toggled on in the metadata settings, which track relationships don't seem to be by default?

Either that or I erroniously toggled it off on both my Windows machine and MacBook... If you'd like I'll test it later but I'd rather not wipe my settings at this point heh

A graph displaying the percentage of Henry's Bluesky image posts. 100% of images have alt text which is 116% above average.

Everyone else is posting their word clouds, but I'm keeping the streak alive!

Right? It's been pretty cool to see all the City of Toronto accounts pop up on here over the last few days, all verified by the city both as a trusted verifier on the platform, and with their domain.

I feel like Canadian municipalities have been generally ahead of the curve here which is neat?

Musicbrainz Picard doesn't write release and track relationships so now I need to go back and re-tag my entire music library to get those sweet details about who played what instruments on which tracks.

...But because they DO write a unique ID to each file this should be a simple bulk edit!

This one will fix your problems for good. Do it.

Been on OpenStreetMap for a while now 😎

Absolutely brutal article preview image here for anyone who doesn’t know what Arthur C. Clarke looks like.

Yes! There's a labeler for this! bsky.app/profile/xblo...

artboard demonstrating the panel font variation for the FRANS SANS typeface

Fran Sans — a typeface inspired by San Francisco light rail displays — is gorgeous and this excellent article really shows you how deep a typography designer will go 👏👏👏

emilysneddon.com/fran-sans…

#typography #design

Playing around with gaussian splats! The end result is cool, but the structure-from-motion camera visualization was pretty neat too!

Dear god what

The year is 2025. I still cannot right click an image in a google doc and hit "Download" to save it to my local computer.

Signal devs read Cole’s blog confirmed?

Spoiler alert but like, it doesn't go great

Be Right Back - Wikipedia

This is almost literally just Black Mirror S02E01 but in a phone instead of a robot.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Righ...