slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time
Def better!
"here I asked AI to generate a doc for you to read and review"
Can we please stop doing this.
Congratulations to the @npmx.dev team on their launch day! 🎉❤️
Here's @vlad.website on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.
"Does 200 lines of Python code understand anything? My siblings in Christ I hope it’s clear how utterly bizarre this question is."
when you have 16,000 new lines of code which must be maintained indefinitely, and neither the author (who used AI) nor the reviewers (who used AI) has any knowledge about what that code *actually* does… that’s a perfect recipe for the erosion of institutional knowledge
The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
The bear we built has no butthole Garth. Where's the bear butthole?!?!
Close up of the butt of a lego tiger set showing it's pink butthole
Ok but why does this lego tiger have a butthole? My family thinks I'm crazy for questioning this
We have horizontal, vertical, and gap scales for spacing tokens
A lot of parenting is just saying "wow" to things that definitely aren't "wow"
I have a pretty sweet design engineer/technologist role that just opened: careers.snowflake.com/us/en/job/SN...
Have kids so you can have a 6yo punch you in the stomach because they're angry they had to stop doing something after you tell them it's time to stop. Then 30 minutes later say mother's and father's day is their favorite holiday because it celebrates mommy and daddy.
HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...
The two most effective ways your company can support open source:
1. Let your developers have time for open source work.
2. Give each of your developers an annual budget to allocate to whatever OSS projects they think are important.
the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
I am not like a sudoku person (I do them sometimes), but I heard about this video on @theverge.com and I had to watch it. It is brilliant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf9...
The ship has sailed on that one ✂️
I got kneed in my penis by my 3yo and then slapped there by my 5yo as he ran through the house. In case anyone was wondering what having kids is like
📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th...
It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.
What a fucking week huh?
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📣 Save the Date!
10th Annual Clarity: A Design Systems Retreat
December 2nd–4th, 2025
Palm Springs, California
www.clarityconf.com
Early bird tickets will be available this Friday, August 22nd.
Giving designtokenscourse.com a re-watch and other than being an awesome course, which I can't recommend highly enough, I forgot how soothing @bradfrost.com's voice is
The SPEAKER implies.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
Hold up there's a reboot?? What streaming service is it on???
Have we pointed out yet that open source is inherently political? And not even in the way that everything is political. In the way that it is a direct political action to reject artificial scarcity and undermine technocratic power.
Slightly diminish a band:
Mild chili peppers
