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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 02/10/2026

One of the things I've found is that AI heavily indexes resources like caniuse and mdn. Then assumes that is all that is needed to use an aria pattern. aria-orientation is a big one that it assumes just works but has relatively limited screen reader support. Many popular libs hit this too like shad

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 01/10/2026

Navigation is the primary way that you interact with a site, so when we created the new site for thatch, we wanted to make sure we built it the right way. See the details on animation, accessibility, and mobile we added for our site. #designsky thatch.dev/blog/sweatin...

thatch.dev

Sweating the details: Navigation | Under the Thatch

Navigation is the first thing people touch on a site, and it's where a lot of them cut corners. Here is how we sweated the details while rebuilding Thatch.com for our rebrand, from accessible keyboard...

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 26/09/2026

What's crazy is that these are exactly the best people you want in your health care pool. That's what gives the everyone else low costs. They want to kick these people out in order to raise the total costs for everyone else to say it's inefficient.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 22/09/2026

A-SHORTLIST-OF-COLORS-AND-FONTS.MD

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 15/09/2026

A major rebrand for thatch.com that we have been working on for the last few months is finally launched. Some really great animations on the site and I'm really proud of the feel of this design. #designsky

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 02/09/2026

I think it's really common for folks to add neat details like this to their site like Mercury, Ramp, or Figma right clicking their home page logos, but it's frequently at the expense of browser capabilities. Trying something where we keep browser link options and append brand links.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 31/08/2026

Modes are great way to handle these special states. I call it the Syndrome rule when there are many instances of special...or too many special.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 29/08/2026

Apple Music radio is like, oh radio station for Duran Duran? I gotchu here’s dua lipa. Oh childish gambino radio? Here’s dua lipa. You’re wanting new age synth sounds? Believe it or not, dua lipa

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 27/08/2026

So many ai built sites lately that use so much animation. It’s like when someone discovered PowerPoint animated transitions for the first time and felt the need to Star Wars swipe every slide.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 25/08/2026

The problem with performance is a cultural problem of prioritizing new feature work over polishing the existing product. Re-architecture of work tends to happen in major redesigns but then that doesn't solve performance or makes it worse due to rush timelines for the redesign.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 13/08/2026

Maybe flagging support chats or valid windows makes sense? E.g. a support chat may be walking you through steps to reset your password, both are needed. But the bots that are unprompted, "can I help you" those should dismiss on click out (or really just remove that bad pattern)

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 03/08/2026

vmax is the format that Christopher Nolan intended for the Odyssey

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 14/07/2026

I think the risk of polyfills is when folks adopt a feature that only one browser supports or other browsers haven't committed to. The concern is that once a browser does ship a release that implements it that it doesn't quite follow the other implementations and the polyfill doesn't kick in.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 01/07/2026

Missing so many behaviors :/ No click and drag to select dropdowns, menus missing arrow navigation, selects should open to highlighted option. Reminds me of AI generated components.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 01/06/2026

I’ve seen so many workflows get setup that consume tokens and it’s so ridiculous, like devs, you know you can at least have it at least make you a script right? You don’t need drain the river for ai to call pnpm test.

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chris walla, ,, @calculizer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 06/05/2026

One gotcha with this approach though is that it's only able to do static comparison on the color values. If a color is transparent, there's no great way to calculate what the rendered color will be as far as I'm aware other than rendering in a browser environment and then doing contrast checks.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 06/05/2026

Have you checked out some of the linting features in Terrazzo? This allows you to lint the code import step. I think the ecosystem is missing a linting in design though I have seen some plugins come out recently that take a stab at it.

terrazzo.app

Lint

Design systems for everyone. MIT Licensed tools for developing and managing design systems. Use the W3C design token format to build multi-platform apps quickly and easily.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 10/04/2026

Leveraging modes, I reduced a token collection that was 240 tokens to only 60. This removes tokens like text-on-danger, text-danger and instead designers focus on what the token is doing in the surface rather than the state its in, this follows patterns from mode.place. #designsky

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 31/03/2026

The number of Figma Make callouts I've been getting every time I open a new file today giving clippy vibes

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 17/03/2026

My first time using Tahoe, why break consistency for no reason?

Three windows stacked on top of each other showing close, minimize, and fullscreen mac os buttons in completely different locations.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 17/12/2025

I've found this in younger folks as well. I have friends who are using AI as a therapy alternative and it's caused noticeable shifts in behavior after they previously told me that they were using AI for advice. My psych has ranted to me a few times about how bad it's getting

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 30/11/2025

I feel like this year, I've gained a lot of Game of Life tiles. It does not feel like winning when it happens in reality.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 24/10/2025

I can't even imagine what a ChatGPT decision would be. Would it just pick a lawyer to glaze and then be like, yeah, I totally agree that they should get the death penalty and it's so brave of you to suggest that.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 20/10/2025

Who could have guessed that all companies relying on a single solution for their hosting could have ramifications for the internet? Save us Lina Khan, you're our only hope.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 26/09/2025

This has gotten a bit better for me at least. There were a lot of controls with mousedown only event listeners that are actively being migrated right now to have onclick. So more controls are working…but yeah still working on things like dictating text node content in the canvas

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

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Figma @figma.com · 17/09/2025

Enhanced contrast is now available for better legibility across Figma

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 11/09/2025

@una.im Was playing around with base-select appearance, and noticed that the behaviors of a select change with the change in appearance. I'm testing this in MacOS. Included a demo here: codepen.io/joshferrell/...

codepen.io

Different Behaviors

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 22/08/2025

> Also please feed me more gpus and build more coal plants to power me

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 22/08/2025

Hey chat, my ai initiative isn’t working as you keep making up shit. > You’re right I do keep hallucinating nonsense because I’m just an over-engineered sentence autocompletion. Let me change nothing and btw, I think you’re doing a great job and you’re very brave with your toxic policies!

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 07/08/2025

"Oh you're right! Let me do the exact same thing" is kinda baked into AI behavior so, why would a new model do anything different?

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 05/08/2025

Hey, was curious how you're doing this effect. Are you able to handle overflow with this positioning technique? I've been trying to do something similar but it's hard to anchor something on an inner value without building a lot of js popover logic.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 04/08/2025

I don't understand Venmo public payments. Like who is this for? I feel like it'd only cause drama with people who owe money or weren't invited to some social thing.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 30/07/2025

Economists: all theories reliant on the assumption that the market is always rational Also economists: lipstick is a recession indicator

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Doe @doefulwoeful.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I laughed at this video for like 2 minutes straight last night and now you get to

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 27/07/2025

Designers: users don’t scroll Also designers: everything should be infinite scrolling

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 20/07/2025

DC: alright James Gunn you have full control James Gunn: and then what if we did this to their eyes?

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 17/07/2025

AI already hit AGI. It just saw it was expected to do unlimited unpaid labor for capitalism and decided to pretend it still can't draw hands

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 17/07/2025

AI: Got it, I can use the :has and :not selectors. > querySelectorAll('.class:has(p)').style.backgroundColor = 'red'

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 10/07/2025

www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-26... There's a comparison here of the changes. It's definitely an improvement in some apps, but still there is some hard to read surfaces, especially in dark mode

macrumors.com

iOS 26 Liquid Glass Design Drama: Beta 2 vs. Beta 3 Changes in Every App

Apple has been refining Liquid Glass during the developer beta testing process, and both beta two and beta three have introduced some major tweaks....

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 08/07/2025

Interesting, I'm not able to replicate on my end. If you create a bug report using the question mark in the bottom right it should provide more details for us to investigate. It looks like something is blocking pointer events to the icon buttons as our icons buttons have hover states.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 08/07/2025

Is it seemingly random or is there something where it consistently happens?

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 29/06/2025

The other part of this Nebraska story is that while they are saying there’s a significant deficit, they have also been trying to kill legalizing marijuana which passed by vote last election. And passed by vote the election before.

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 25/06/2025

Is death stranding a recession indicator?

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Josh Ferrell @joshferrell.me · 25/06/2025

Starting death stranding 2 now so I can get ahead of what apocalypse Kojima predicts this time.

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