Cyd Stumpel

cydstumpel.nl

08 October 2026 12:19

A little summary of my experience at Fronteers Dark Mode, a breakdown of the header effect of my demo, and a tiny bit of yapping at the end on existential dread in the age of AI 💁🏻‍♀️ @fronteers.bsky.social cydstumpel.nl/demo-deep-di...

Shaun Bent

shaunbent.co.uk

07 October 2026 09:20

My design systems writing has moved to a permanent home on the @53degrees.studio site. I had loads of fun designing and building it, and all the old links redirect. Next week: a 6,500-word, three-part story about building a "System of Systems" at Spotify. Grab a brew. ☕️ 🔗 53degrees.studio/posts

Keith Henry

k17.dev

05 October 2026 18:00

Yeah, it smacks of that kind of navel-gazing over-engineering, where someone is probably proud how their proprietary design system improves on vanilla CSS by adding terse cascading styles that can be easily applied, once learnt. And then someone added !important to a component and messed it all up 🤷

Vincent

vinnymac.dev

05 October 2026 17:59

I can imagine all of the 1-pagers and RFCs written by senior engineers at medium to large organizations ten years ago, that got paid millions to make these changes. I wrote the RFC to move away from CSS in JS in a previous role undoing the damage 🫠

Keith Henry

k17.dev

05 October 2026 14:08

Today I had to dig into GitHub's CSS - it's a mess of sub-tailwind classes with overriding !important flags everywhere, a mix of rem and px sizes, with at least 2 different naming conventions. It must be horrible to work with.