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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 05/10/2026

Very excited for Wireframe this Friday at 5pm ET. I've asked @geoffgraham.me to come on the show for an interview about the current state of affairs at CSS-Tricks. If you join live, I'll talk audience questions too so don't miss it! wireframe.ds.house

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Wireframe Live weekdays @ 5pm ET

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 05/10/2026

What if there was a Web Components conference?? @stuffbreaker.bsky.social and I are teaming up to get a little more serious about the idea of getting one together. We want to gather data on if there is interest in the community forms.gle/ZGqtYGj7V6q8... Please fill out and share to anyone!

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Interested in a Web Components conference? Let us know below!

Web Components folks have been semi-seriously talking about organizing a conference for years, and with the ecosystem in a real moment of growth and popularity, it's about time! This form is our firs...

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 03/10/2026

Timeline cleanse. Handcrafted statue of Sonic the Hedgehog for the 35th anniversary. Up for auction later this month. Video of the process: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzCJ...

Handcrafted porcelain statue of Sonic the Hedgehog

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 29/09/2026

Also the placeholder should be "help me find a job" because this assumes the unemployment rate hasn't been declining since 2008.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 29/09/2026

Coming this November, to a Civic Hall near Union Square NYC. In a world where AI claims to do it all, what are designers left to do? And fun fact, I don't mention AI once in the talk. Call it a palette cleanse. www.evolvedigital.com

Donnie D'Amato, Creativity within constraints at EvolveDigital November 19 & 20 2026

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 26/09/2026

Thanks, I think that was one of the best episodes too!

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 26/09/2026

I had a short but special show today just before hitting 10k. www.youtube.com/live/L3jS-RO... Hope it only gets better from here. 🙏

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Subscriber Special | Wireframe Live

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 25/09/2026

If you render full content in your RSS using Astro, this is what is probably under the hood. How I use it: blog.damato.design/posts/astro-...

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Astro RSS MDX

Showing more love for Astro, now that we can finally render MDX in RSS content.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 23/09/2026

I think the kids call this buttermaxxing now.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 23/09/2026

I'll say that the act of assigning a general priority is different than ordering those priorities for me. It's like assigning points for LOE and the looking at all the tickets and choosing what to do first from the earlier assignments.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 22/09/2026

Love the dive into atproto ❤️

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 22/09/2026

I'll stop complaining... about people claiming they've generated a "design system" in 20 minutes.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 22/09/2026

Rename DESIGN.md to STYLEGUIDE.md and I promise I'll stop complaining.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 20/09/2026

Since I have an old Rabbit R1, I wanted to try and turn it into a smartphone. It runs Android and has a sim slot after all. Anyway, ended up bricking it so that was fun. All the sketchy github releases don't make it worth the trouble.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 20/09/2026

Apparently, my personal account for Twitch has been livestreaming 0 data for about 16 hours. I know exactly know it has happened but I'm too lazy to stop it from the source. If this was YouTube I could stop the stream easily from the web interface, but for some reason Twitch doesn't let you. 🤷

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 20/09/2026

Re: Data in Design video. I think an important distinction is that I don't believe Nate and I are speaking about the token names being dynamic, only the values assigned to those token names. I'd argue against dynamic token names personally.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 18/09/2026

A company called Iterable is "testing" their ATS by having candidates fill out for a position that doesn't exist. www.reddit.com/r/recruiting...

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 17/09/2026

Ah perfect something to argue about on my blog. 😈

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 17/09/2026

I'll say we didn't talk about color much in the show other than examples of tokens. But I do agree with you.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 17/09/2026

Yesterday on Wireframe LIVE, @natebaldwin.bsky.social came on the show to talk about data in design. We chatted about our thoughts on the scalability problem of curating modes that are influenced by multiple dimensions. ☝️ If that made sense to you then watch below 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfi_...

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 16/09/2026

My big thing is when I want to whip up a quick prototype of something, there's all of this noisy HTML in there now. I get it's how you're supposed to compose the page but hiding it before was really beneficial. Especially when I used to teach frontend.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 16/09/2026

Is there really no way to get back to the legacy @codepen.io behavior now? The settings are also all over the place so I can't find anything. Luckily, I'm able to fork old pens to get the editor back to how it used to be.

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 15/09/2026

My wife had one, used it a few times and eventually sold it. The big problem is moving it in and out when wanting to sit instead. Personally, I think floating chairs are the answer here. That way you can keep it under the desk and then swing the chair in when you want to sit. www.suspendit.com

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Suspend-It Seating

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 15/09/2026

I have a leg bag for this reason. 💅

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 14/09/2026

Non-Euclidean browser geometry. Good luck logging in.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 14/09/2026

I say gave up, but also not really. As of recent I've stopped counting usage and started counting definitions. More to come on that front from me.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 14/09/2026

I has a similar thought when I wanted to tackle the "simple" task of counting components and then couldn't answer if a card with a button counted as one or two. And then I saw this and effectively gave up. youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE

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Do Chairs Exist?

YouTube video by Vsauce

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 14/09/2026

Agree, but I've also questioned the purpose of it at all. If it's meant to demonstrate "things made of things" that's fine. But why do we need to put stuff into groups based on composition? What value does it have?

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 12/09/2026

I thanked you for the article then and I'm thanking you now. 😅

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 11/09/2026

Hey, Don't use "because accessibility" as your scapegoat. If it's for accessibility explain how. Describe the kind of person it was designed for and what need it is addressing. Thanks.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 10/09/2026

Yesterday @pjonori.com came on Wireframe LIVE. While we did speak about his work behind the new Design Systems Documentation Specification, we also touched upon areas in our creative work that we don't cross when using AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqTs...

PJ Onori and Donnie D'Amato on Wireframe LIVE with text "I'm not an expert"

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 09/09/2026

Oh you're at Shopify now too. That explains it.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 09/09/2026

Wait why is everyone in NYC this week?

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 09/09/2026

Is CSS-Tricks still owned by DigitalOcean? 🤔

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 09/09/2026

After Liquid Glass considerations, I'd say of course not.

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