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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, I'm doing a thing that makes me nervous but is also fun. www.the-haystack.com/public/

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Overheard: "It has a 5.8 on IMDB, dude! I'm not gonna watch that."

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

On the way home from enjoying a fantastic #CSSDay. The talks were great and it was wonderful to meet friends old and new. The web is still the best platform to build creative stuff, and CSS is the best design tool to do it with.

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@joshwcomeau.com I was reading through your reset explanation, and enjoying it way more than necessary. You write that WCAG states that line-height should be at least 1.5. I understand WCAG as only saying that IF set to that, there should be no loss of content or functionality. Am I misreading?

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I tend to punch up. Not too hard, but just enough. And then I get overconfident. And then life provides me with some melodramatic pick-your-battles moment. And then I struggle. And then I'm like, "meh, okay." Rave. Repeat. But I climb a tiny bit each time.

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

One irony of design: sometimes, done well, its impact is undervalued. And sometimes, done poorly, its impact is overvalued.

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I keep seeing articles about "no more UI". But if you *use* it, there's always a UI. You type, click, tap, drag, draw, speak, breathe, look, feel, move. When we stop considering UI to be purely visual is when we start to understand the beautiful complexities (and possibilities) of interaction.

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I find it curious that the scariest warnings about AI are from the people who made it happen.

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A weird design systems phenomenon: designers feeling limited in their creativity, and proposing system changes to get that creativity back. But often, this "creativity" is misplaced. When looking at system elements, zoom outside of your context. When trying to be creative, zoom further into it.

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Did I—lover of em-dashes—write this little post? Or was it—an unlikely suggestion—an LLM?

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Sarah Schumacher @smschumacher.com · 13/06/2025

Never not relevant:

An xkcd cartoon shows a complex stack labeled "All modern digital infrastructure" resting on a small piece labeled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003.

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Liquid glass. Enjoy it while it lasts, because it won't. Have a nice day and enjoy your eye candy

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I'm trying Vivaldi browser after spending a few days around my friend @brucel.bsky.social at #cssday, who works there and isn't overly car-salesman about it. It's a bit quirky and tries to do a lot, but I like it so far. Vivaldi is the emacs of web browsers.

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Pre-boat Gollem chill is happening. If you know, you know.

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A day early in Amsterdam for @cssday.nl and enjoying the city on my own. I just realized how uncommon it is for me to do that. And the weather hasn't disappointed!

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Artem Pendiurin @erblack.me · 03/06/2025

The day after tomorrow, #cssday will begin. It seems I won't be able to come after all, but that won't stop me from making sketchnotes. And today, let's welcome the MCs of the conference: @haystephen.bsky.social and @bram.us

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Recurring topic of conversation at work today: low-fi vs high-fi. Our tooling encourages high-fi "sketching". This can be useful. But your level of fidelity steers discussion. If you find discussions hovering around the wrong things, look critically at the fidelity of your "sketches".

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Wow, all those animals using ChatGPT... English. It's hard.

Screenshot with text: "Designer creates powerful campaign on the hidden costs of products on animals using ChatGPT"

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Stephen Hay @haystephen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

@ian-frost.bsky.social Happy (belated) birthday! Sincerely, Practice Name

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