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Ariel Salminen

@arielsalminen.com
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Design (systems) engineer • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components, the web platform & my road cycling adventures. 📮 arielsalminen.com 📍 Helsinki, Finland 👩🏻‍🦰 She/her

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Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bluesky friends, very sadly (for me) I need to sell my beloved Wilma. She’s a 1988 T25 VW Campervan, complete with checkerboard floor and fold out bed, recently serviced and MOT’d. If you or anyone you know is interested please let me know - would love her to go to someone nice 🧡
An orange T25 Volkswagen campervan parked in front of a field on a spring day
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 09/09/2026
My Raspberry Pi side project finally moving forward. Took a while to acquire every single part this thing needed 🤓
Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) laid out on a wooden floor with a NVMe SSD, NVMe base, active cooler, wide-angle camera module, various sensors, ribbon cables, servos, screen, power supplies, and a selection of other boards, cables, sensors and small parts.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026
feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post
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1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 24/08/2026
Current status: fixing yet another bicycle (to sell it) 🤷🏻‍♀️ *I think the kids are getting slightly annoyed that I’ve turned our living room into a bike shop, basically*
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 17/08/2026
Thanks GitHub
GitHub error page that says “No server is currently available”
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 17/08/2026
A new friend for the old bike just arrived (…well, a part of it, anyway…)
An unopened Surly box in front of my old red Wilier road bike. The box says “Surly. bikes. parts. chaos.”A half unpacked purple Surly Steamroller frame in front of the box it.Unpacked purple Surly Steamroller frame in front of my old red Wilier road bike.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 17/08/2026
Anxiously waiting for a new bike frame to arrive today (yeah… yet another side project 🤷🏻‍♀️)
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 15/08/2026
Gathering parts for a new Raspberry Pi side project. The rest is still in transit 🤓
Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) laid out on a wooden floor with a NVMe SSD, NVMe base, active cooler, wide-angle camera module, ribbon cables, power supply, and other random bits and pieces…
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 11/08/2026
One of (OVHCloud’s) network links in Stockholm has decided to stop carrying packets over 1480 bytes overnight for an unknown reason & also blocks the error that would normally tell a device to send smaller ones 🙃 So a bunch of websites have just been dead for me since yesterday (Bluesky, Mastodon…)
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 06/08/2026
Sold our car and somehow made profit doing that, at least compared to what I originally paid for it 🤷🚴🏻‍♀️
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 22/07/2026
Got completely soaked on this ride. Literally had to stop and pour water out of my shoes a couple of times 🌊
My view over the handlebars of a rain-soaked red road bike, water droplets covering the frame and a Garmin bike computer, wet asphalt below.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 20/07/2026
On a bit of a summer break from work and this is what I’m doing instead: *nerding out about these matching red disc brake lockrings that I just installed on my bike* 🤓
Close-up of my Wilier Verticale’s rear hub showing a red anodized Miche centerlock lockring securing a silver disc brake rotor, matched to the bike's glossy red frame.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 11/07/2026
A random view from today’s bike ride. The piece on the underpass wall says “Girls are awesome” ❤️
Arielle’s red Wilier bike leaning against an underpass wall with huge graffiti that says “Girls are awesome” in white stencil-style letters on a red background.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 22/06/2026
Monday after work ride with 🧡. (featuring a tiny friend who liked my bike 🐤)
A glossy red Wilier Verticale SLR road bike leaning against a wooden fence in summer sun, with a small house sparrow perched on the bike computer between the handlebars. Green foliage and a building behind.GPS map of a ~70 km cycling loop around Espoo, Finland, winding northwest through Nuuksio and Ämmässuo and back. The route is color-coded by elevation, with a green start marker south of the city.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 05/06/2026
Did a bike ride around the archipelago near Turku, Finland. Such beautiful views. I honestly assumed riding across a bunch of islands would be mostly flat, but the elevation profile (and my legs) seem to disagree. 🚴🏻‍♀️😅
Red Wilier Verticale road bike on Pirelli P Zero tires, leaning against a wooden picnic table on a grassy shore. Two pink bottles in the cages. Behind it, a marina full of sailboats and a small ferry under a clear blue sky.View over the handlebars of a red Wilier Verticale road bike with a Garmin cycling computer showing a paused ride on the map screen. White cycling shoes and black tights below, riding on a paved path with sunlit grass to the right.Two red road bikes leaning against white storage lockers on the deck of an archipelago car ferry, beside a green muster-station sign marked 42. Cars queued on the deck to the left, an open metal staircase climbing up the middle, bright blue sky overhead.Google Maps screenshot of the cycling route: a large loop through the Turku archipelago, starting and finishing downtown Turku and running clockwise via Kaarina, Pargas and Nagu in the south, then back north through Röölä, Rymättylä, Otava and Naantali. The track is color-coded by elevation from blue (lower) to red (higher), per the legend at the bottom.
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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Rarely active here anymore, but dropping by to say that I will have availability for freelance web/dataviz accessibility work again soon: - Reviews, audits - Consulting, advice - Training, talks, workshops - Front-end dev 🫶🏻 Interested? DM or collab@fossheim.io #accessibility #datavizA11Y
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Ana Rodrigues @ohhelloana.blog · 12/05/2026
It's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us. ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...
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It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick
A while back I went to a tech meet-up and one of the talks was about being a woman in tech and I am finally ready to put into words why I sat through it so uncomfortably.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 09/05/2026
ã = a with a toupee á = it’s windy, toupee flyin up à = ope wind changed direction ă = where is this wind coming from ą = ah shit it fell on the ground â = well now it looks ridiculous
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Harry Roberts @csswizardry.com · 07/05/2026
I’ve been working with a client who runs a lot of social media and ad campaigns, so we’ve been deploying the experimental `No-Vary-Search HTTP` header. It’s amazing to see it actually working! Read all about it here: csswizardry.com/2026/05/bett...
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Better Browser Caching with No-Vary-Search – CSS Wizardry
No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 08/05/2026
Think I’m gonna call it a week and go back cycling. 🚵🏻‍♀️
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 08/05/2026
Pretty test runner output from the Kesko Design System. Colors inherited from my terminal theme. 👩🏻‍💻 *Alt:* Terminal screenshot of the Kesko Design System test runner, with a coral pink ASCII-art “K” logo. All 87 test files and 2,831 tests across 13 test suites passed in 42.66 seconds.
Terminal screenshot of the Kesko Design System test runner, with a coral pink ASCII-art “K” logo. All 87 test files and 2,831 tests across 13 test suites passed in 42.66 seconds.
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 06/05/2026
“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.” The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”, by @wil.to 👏
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Google’s Prompt API
No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 06/05/2026
Happy 23rd Birthday CSS Zen Garden! In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden. #WebDesignHistory
In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 06/05/2026
Had to take a slightly longer lunch break today to get this thing unboxed 😍
Two red Wilier road bikes in a living room. The new Verticale SLR in front, the older Wilier behind it, with design books and plants in the background.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 05/05/2026
*don’t mind me I am just here collecting old Shimano parts from all over to fix my bike* (dura ace bits are for the new bike though)
An array of new Shimano bicycle drivetrain components in their packaging on a light wood floor.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 29/04/2026
Just seen <div role="button" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="0"/>
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/04/2026
Github downtime since the Microsoft acquisition
This image is a line graph titled **"GitHub Average Uptime by Month"** covering a period from April 2016 to early 2026. A subtitle notes that "Codespaces and Copilot [are] excluded due to launch partway through dataset."
The graph tracks availability percentages, with the y-axis ranging from **99.500%** to **100.000%**.
### Visual Overview
 * **The Line:** The data is plotted as a continuous line with colored dots at each monthly data point.
 * **The Trend:** * From **2016 to late 2018**, the line is almost perfectly flat at the **100.000%** mark, colored primarily in green.
   * Following a vertical dashed line labeled **"Microsoft Acquires GitHub"** (dated late 2018), the line becomes significantly more volatile.
   * From **2019 through 2026**, the line shows frequent, jagged drops, with several "dips" falling between **99.600%** and **99.800%**.
 * **Color Coding:** * **Green dots** indicate months with 100% or near-100% uptime.
   * **Yellow and Red dots/lines** are used for the more volatile period post-2019, highlighting the decrease in stability.
### Key Milestones
 * **Pre-Acquisition (2016 – Oct 2018):** Stability is represented as a consistent green line at the top of the chart.
 * **Post-Acquisition (Oct 2018 – 2026):** The graph shows a marked increase in downtime incidents. The lowest point on the graph occurs around **early 2023**, where uptime briefly drops near **99.500%**.
 * **Recent Data:** The volatility continues through the end of the chart in **early 2026**, showing frequent fluctuations between 99.8% and 99.95%.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 27/04/2026
Saw this headline: “Ads are coming to Apple Maps this summer” …and momentarily my brain parsed it as: “Legs are coming to Apple Maps this summer” I’ve been ruined by tech
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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026
I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
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Jo Franchetti @thisisjofrank.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I'm really tired of seeing "women in tech" panels that talk about all the things women can do to help not be pushed out of tech. I reckon I could fill an entire hour's talk with the things men have said and done to me to make me unsafe working in this industry.
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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 23/04/2026
Mat Marquis has waited 14 years to write this article. The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on the web. piccalil.li/blog/the-end...
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The end of responsive images
Mat Marquis has waited 14 years to write this article. The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on...
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 24/04/2026
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.
exchange on X 

Christoffer Bjelke @chribjel 
We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks

Sameer goel @sameer_goel
Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again.
Full circle innovation.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 24/04/2026
Working with these internet speeds over the past weeks have made me focus on improving the performance of everything I’ve touched at work. Also, reminded me of something that I wrote in April 11 years ago which somehow feels even more relevant in 2026: arielsalminen.com/2015/the-man...
A screenshot that shows download speed of 2,98 Mbps, and upload speed of 0,35 Mbps.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 22/04/2026
@studioromeo.co.uk Managed to semi destroy my existing road bike yesterday in a crash and now pondering whether to start fixing it with new parts (would be thousands of €) or replace it with a new road bike. 🙃
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 21/04/2026
Evenings like this 🧡
A child with long hair stands on a sandy beach at dusk, tossing a handful of small stones into the air above her. The calm Baltic Sea stretches out before her, reflecting the soft pink and peach tones of the sunset sky. A forested island sits on the horizon to the left, with smooth rocks and boulders visible along the shoreline.
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David Bushell 🪿 @dbushell.com · 15/04/2026
blogged: Warning: containment breach in cascade layer! dbushell.com/2026/04/15/c...
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Warning: containment breach in cascade layer!
The one where I get very confused
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 14/04/2026
Created this small tool to explore the current system’s token tree to better understand how the relationships work between token groups → primitives tokens → semantic tokens → themes → UI modes. Has already helped us so much to improve the overall architecture and naming+grouping conventions.
A screenshot of a design token visualizer that allows you to explore the full design token tree to understand how the relationships work between groups, primitives, semantics, themes, and modes.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
🇭🇺✊ Good luck to these people tomorrow, in their hands is not only the fate of Hungary, but also a big opportunity for Europe and Ukraine
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 11/04/2026
Things you find from your parent’s archives. This one’s coming with us home 😅
A vintage View-Master stereoscope viewer in dark brown plastic sits on a wooden surface next to a red plastic basket filled with View-Master reels in navy blue paper sleeves. The front reel sleeve reads “One View-Master Reel: 7 Three Dimension Full Color Pictures” with a Peter Pan title visible on the reel label inside.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 11/04/2026
*opens linkedin* “I asked ChatGPT […]” *closes linkedin*
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 11/04/2026
I was suspicious of the new Macbook Neo, but now that I’ve used my mom’s for a while I regret to inform that I’ll probably replace my old MBA with a pink Neo.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 11/04/2026
SET I don’t think anyone at LinkedIn tested their app with the a11y features I am using 🙃
A screenshot of LinkedIn’s iOS app with text so large it doesn’t even fit one word into the viewport.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 10/04/2026
Too zorb
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 08/04/2026
@donnie.damato.design I would love to buy your new book, but is it only possible in UK or US? …or am I doing something wrong? 🥲
A dialog asking me to confirm my location. The availability options are UK or US.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/04/2026
Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!
A screenshot of the part of the accessibility settings with the option of “Require alt text before posting” selected
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The last time human eyes were far enough from Earth to see the whole globe was December 1972. www.nasa.gov/image-detail...
Our home planet, the only place in the galaxy that doesn’t suck
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 01/04/2026
This week is turning better when I least expect it. 🧡
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 01/04/2026
This is super fun 🤩 lol at “your browser's DevTools probably send you birthday cards.”
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