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Couldn’t actually find much writing on this. Curious if there are any thoughts for or against this approach.

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Second, thinking in shearing layers patterns are the furniture. People use and change them around the most. Components and tokens are more like fixtures and plumbing. People notice issue occasionally but don’t change them day to day.

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First, we think designers, engineers, and agents should come to the system for help with solutions. And if there is a fully formed solution like a pattern they should see and consider that first.

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In the Spirii UI design systems docs we’re inverting the usual order. Instead of following the order of composition from the foundations starting with tokens and building up to components and patterns we’re starting with patterns. The reasoning is twofold..

Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 11/08/2026

Someone went to see the odyssey

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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...

A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution

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I do miss the optimism of the 90s I grew up in, but it’s tempered with the knowledge that this misplaced optimism got us into this mess

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Which isn’t to say the good stuff wasn’t there, but it feel a lot better without the bad.

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As I get old it starts to become clear that we romanticise the past mainly because only the good parts of it tend to survive. Older buildings are nicer? We knocked down the shit ones. Music was better back then? You never hear the bad stuff. Nostalgia works through a filter.

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Yeah LinkedIn is clearly in a situation where their metrics are driving a worse experience. I would bet money that any fixes to their shitty notification badge tank engagement so it stays broken.

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I think I saw an open STE fork once but looking now doesn’t look to be widely used. Sorry, I guess I was being overly optimistic. 😬 Still great to see tools like this being used for docs though.

Nice. Just learning about this. Any reason you didn’t go with one of the more open alternatives?

Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 30/07/2026

Your move Slack, GitHub, Notion… fuck it. Everyone.

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 29/07/2026

Ah thanks! That wasn’t clear to me at first, and if someone gets to presently first there’s no way for them to find that out from the app or site from what I can see. But that kind of compatibility would be nice. Something like standard.site for stories?

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 29/07/2026

Seems like a fun idea, but I don’t see my posts or any others?

Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 28/07/2026

Is Soundcloud still the place to upload DJ mixes? Or is it Mixcloud now? Or is someone doing this on ATProto? Sorry, it’s been a minute…

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 24/07/2026

So I noticed Bluesky no longer manages to open at where I left off. It does the same flash and take me to new content thing that other engagement chasing social media does. When did this happen? Anyone know why?

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 18/07/2026

In the end I want the feeling that I will read, or at least could choose to read… without the guilt of noticing that I haven’t read. It’s hard to beat open tabs… I save to are.na at the moment…

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Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 13/07/2026

The American mind cannot comprehend how many of my Danish colleagues have already said “see you in August”

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 12/07/2026

I feel you. Have to go with England this time. Argentina are so dislikable as a team while, their country aside, England team seems ok.

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 10/07/2026

I would like to have a conversation with whoever at Spotify decided albums should default to shuffle.

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 02/07/2026

Flags are still a terrible identifier for languages. Despite seeming correct, this flag will annoy a majority of English speakers, more than even the American or British flags would.

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 26/06/2026

Danish is snabel-a, “(elephant) trunk a”

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

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"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Technically, they’re Remains now.

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 16/06/2026

Anyone else feel the need to post that they’re definitely doing stuff with design code and AI but have no interest in adding to the general noise?

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 15/06/2026

But the videos had ground truth pixels 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 14/06/2026

I want to talk about ground truth pixels.

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 10/06/2026

Also, am I reading it right that they’re using Fable as the carrot to lure people on to usage pricing?

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 10/06/2026

Interesting that Anthropic seem to be shifting their model names from poetry to… fictional tales? So curious to understand the reasoning behind this, because… deviation from truth would be something I would not be wanting to evoke at this point.

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 09/06/2026

Ah yes I know that feeling. Had similar experiences in Paris with Fashion Week 😅 Hope you still had a chance to enjoy some of the city!

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Ed Macovaz @edmacovaz.com · 09/06/2026

Haha. Feel proud of myself for spotting that. Are you in town for 3 Days of Design or just visiting?