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Vale @vale.rocks · 01/10/2026

Some flavourful goodness about some fresh new web things over on the @zeroheight.com blog. Certainly read up on the latest and greatest to grace the web platform! So much brilliant new stuff to help your design systems thrive. zeroheight.com/blog/new-htm... #DesignSystems #HTML #CSS

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New HTML and CSS features you should be using in your design system - zeroheight

Declan Chidlow explores new HTML and CSS features that can make your design system more flexible, adaptable, and maintainable.

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Varun Vachhar @varun.ca · 20/09/2026

Another little tool built on top of @meodai.bsky.social's Cusp Hanger to create palettes for generative systems. One ground colour plus foregrounds grouped by contrast. It generates a smooth ramp per hue and selects colours off that ramp by measured contrast.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 17/09/2026

Want to learn more about @e18e.dev? This is for you 👌

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Parotaku @parotaku.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ça y est, la chronique de @winstonsmith.eurosky.social a été passée en gratuit(merci @arretsurimages.net !) Donc à lire et à partager au maximum pour ne pas tomber dans le piège et avoir une autre analyse que la simple copie de la propagande des doomers de l'IA www.arretsurimages.net/chroniques/c...

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"L'IA va tous nous tuer" : anatomie d'une faillite journalistique - Par Thibault Prévost | Arrêt sur images

Piratage informatique par une "civilisation" de machines, prophétie apocalyptique d'un "lanceur d'alerte" d'OpenAI et Anthropic, probabilités d'extinction... la semaine dernière a encore été un grand ...

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 17/09/2026

Felt exactly the same aftee one day. Same for emoji picker

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 16/09/2026

Well it seems Tinycast is actually a perfect drop-in replacement for Raycast. Fully native, open source, Raycast data/settings import feature. I'll see how it goes. So far so good after one day 🤞 github.com/abue-ammar/t...

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GitHub - abue-ammar/tinycast: Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history.

Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history. - abue-ammar/tinycast

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 16/09/2026

I like this analogy a lot! Have you seen a change in the last 5 years in how designers think "outside this box"? On my end not so much, even with the not so new pandora box at hand (LLMs).

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 16/09/2026

When thinking about the design<>dev gap I always think about fixed values beeing one of the first blocker. It looks like a low hanging fruit in my view but as a dev I'm biased.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 16/09/2026

"It’s not always an easy sell to designers to make fluid choices, by simple maths." That's something that's been frustrating me for years now especially when building layouts. If only design tools like Figma would help designers reason with something else than fixed values...

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Container style queries and advanced attr(): rethinking how to wire up my components in CSS | utilitybend

Wiring HTML attributes into CSS with advanced typed attr(), and letting container style queries pass that state down to child components.

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Stefan Judis @stefanjudis.com · 14/09/2026

Quick reminder, if you're working on a SaaS product that requires a login, please check if you've defined the well-known URL to change passwords. Password managers will check `/.well-known/change-password` to offer a quick way to change passwords. www.w3.org/TR/ch...

Code: GET /.well-known/change-password HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: https://example.com/account/security/password

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 14/09/2026

Oh Fractal. It's been a long time since I've heard about it. Is it still maintained?

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 14/09/2026

I agree. Atomic Design felt really helpful back in the days but now I prefer no category at all.

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Bogdan Chadkin @trysound.io · 12/09/2026

Hey, hey! I've been working on something last couple weeks. Libras - a music player that connects to your own music server. It's still early in development though already replaced apps on my desktop and android. Give it a try, let me know what you think. github.com/TrySound/lib...

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GitHub - TrySound/libras: A music player that connects to your own music server.

A music player that connects to your own music server. - TrySound/libras

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 10/09/2026

design system folks: do you use component tokens regularly? i have Very Strong Opinions™ on them (in that i think they’re a fucking terrible idea) but i’m not sure if i’m missing something obvious.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 10/09/2026

I did try to use it against several repos consuming our design system but the metrics it returned were wrong. I'll take another stab at it I guess.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 10/09/2026

Omlet is open source but it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore. Isn't it an issue for you. You'd still recommend it?

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 10/09/2026

This makes me want to try Starlight to document our design system and give Omlet another chance instead of paying $10k/y for an Enterprise Supernova licence...

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Pavel Laptev @pavellaptev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wrote a small post about experimenting with the Figma agent + Claude + GitHub Actions to ship our design tokens to npm. The agents wrote all the scripts. Then a button ran them faster. blog.gitbutler.com/design-token...

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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm

I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my plugin has had for years takes seconds.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 08/09/2026

We've moved from Gatsby to Astro. After years of procrastination, surprisingly, 1 engineer and Claude did it in 2 weeks! 61% less homepage JavaScript, mobile score 66 to 90, page weight 2.1 MB to 1.1 MB. The story, happy engineers, bugs and all: evilmartians.com/chronicles/g...

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The Golden Switch, or migrating from Gatsby to Astro in under 9¾ days—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

367 posts, four years on Gatsby, and no dedicated team: here's how we moved evilmartians.com to Astro in two weeks with an LLM.

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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 08/09/2026

🚀 Container style queries are baseline; New attr() capabilities are nearly there. Neat apart, but together they change how we can wire up components. Practice will make perfect, and I still need to rewire my brain for this combo. So, time to start that rewire. utilitybend.com/blog/contain...

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Container style queries and advanced attr(): rethinking how to wire up my components in CSS | utilitybend

Wiring HTML attributes into CSS with advanced typed attr(), and letting container style queries pass that state down to child components.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 08/09/2026

What's even worse is that even when disconnected from the network, TVs will scan for other networks and connect to open ones to send all data (ACR + microphone data)...

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 08/09/2026

J'ai regardé l'interview et j'aime bien sa manière d'expliquer les choses et de partager sa compréhension du marché. Il a l'air d'être bon pédagogue ça fait plaisir à voir. Concernant les LLMs qui fonctionnent mieux plus ils sont cadrés, l'exemple de Rust est très logique aussi.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 08/09/2026

Will it be open source? What's your stack?

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 08/09/2026

Do you mean m3u files listing tracks not in the same server (like a URL)? If so, I don't know if it's even possible. What I have on my Navidrome server is a music folder containing all my tracks in one folder by artist and m3u files at the root of the music folder.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 08/09/2026

As for macOs, I'm using Doppler but it doesn't seems to be maintained anymore. It works but doesn't let me export playlists as m3u files which I need to sync on my navidrome server. I'm force to sync playlists in Doppler and Music. And export them in Music.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 08/09/2026

On Android I recommend these 2 apps : - github.com/CappielloAnt... - www.symfonium.app

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Anthony Frehner @frehner.me · 04/09/2026

This is huge for component libraries, written as web components, that have to somewhat recreate native CSS due to environment limitations. 👀

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 06/09/2026

I'm excited to try this one. Thanks you!

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 06/09/2026

Thanks! I'll check it out.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 05/09/2026

I'm struggling to find a desktop app to draw the plan of an appartment in 2D and export it in .dxf so it can be imported by professionals in Sketchup. Do you know a tool with a good UX AND a .dxf export format?

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Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

D'utilité publique pour se faire une opinion factuelle en amont de la présidentielle. 👇

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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 02/09/2026

Wrote about what's up in angle brackets land.

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 03/09/2026

I still cannot believe that PNPM can interactively upgrade GitHub actions the same way it upgrades other NPM deps. SO good! pnpm.io/cli/update#u...

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Anthony Fu @antfu.me · 02/09/2026

ESLint Config Inspector v3.4.0 now supports visualizing the ESLint stats, showing which rules or files are slowing you down! github.com/eslint/confi...

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 28/08/2026

Anchor positioning makes this type of effect feel almost too easy to make now. If you want the long-form where I break it down in more detail, you can find it here: youtu.be/8_NQ7ARXz8c

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 27/08/2026

My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Interfaces Cheat Sheet is a list of very high level tips to help you improve your interfaces. I’m not usually a big fan of do/don’t, but it’s still interesting to have some “rules”. The trick: know the role, apply it, become a better designer, and then, know when it’s okay to break it as well.

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Interfaces › Cheat Sheet

A list of tips, improvements and best practices that quickly make your interfaces better.

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 20/08/2026

Beyond “originally pitching this” which the article cites as my only involvement, I also put a fair bit of effort into driving this resolution at the recent Berlin F2F, together with @tabatkins.com. I’m *delighted* we convinced the WG to do it. It will be a gamechanger for CSS utility classes! 🎉

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 20/08/2026

If you haven't followed @eliotwb.bsky.social's incredible reporting on Neom you may be under the impression that nothing got actually built before construction stopped. You'd be very wrong. Watch the video: The sheer scale of the waste. Utter madness. Surreal.

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How Saudi Arabia’s Neom Megacity Dream Collapsed

Watch WSJ’s Eliot Brown break down the finances and analyze satellite images.

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 20/08/2026

Love the "Wireframe" branding touches here and there, especially in the hero section. The paper effect looks really good 👌

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Vale @vale.rocks · 17/08/2026

I did a feedback read-through of this post, and I think this is the most solid HTML boilerplate I've seen around. Well worth a look over to see if there is anything you can borrow from it. It has had me thinking that I should construct my own...

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 19/08/2026

i’m glad we’re getting some more standardisation and convergence with design tokens but the format module spec not allowing fluid tokens for things like type and spacing is really frustrating. would love to know how folks handle this in practice.

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Rayna 🤓🇪🇺👩‍💻📚✍️ @maliciarogue.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ma position est et a toujours été : oui, les violations de données connaissent une hausse réelle et préoccupante ; non, cela ne démontre ni que toute l’administration française serait "une passoire", ni que le problème se résumerait à une incapacité technique française.

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 07/08/2026

AI-ready design systems have stopped asking models nicely 🫣 Polaris: “You cannot trust your trained knowledge” 🫡 Primer: “CRITICAL: CALL THIS FIRST” 🙅 shadcn: “NEVER fetch raw files from GitHub manually” discover 150+ techniques used in 20 design systems: state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app

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State of AI in Design Systems · July 2026

A field study of how 20 open-source design systems and 6 platforms make themselves readable to AI agents.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 13/08/2026

I really wanted to address this take by @mtsw.bsky.social and they have fairly closed it off, but I am going to use a screenshot because I think this is a really good topic to discuss and as someone for whom this is my entire job and has been for over a decade now I actually agree and disagree... 🧵

everyone — consumers, publishers, writers — would wind up better off if web browser ad-blockers didn't exist and the rationalizations for using one are mostly clever justifications for what's just selfish behavior with obvious negative social consequences.

> Counterpoint - I like using the Internet to read articles and the ad blocker is the thing which makes that possible.

> Would the writers and publishers be better off if I didn't visit their website?

i mean if they are financially supported by advertising and you are a free-rider who views their content without seeing any advertisements, yes they are almost tautologically better off if you never visit their website

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 12/08/2026

After having a chat with @danabra.mov about the Atmosphere, I was motivated to contribute. Imagine websites that support your own customized look over their own. Could be fun and inclusive! Try out the new studio to make your own look.

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