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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 28/09/2026

Mike Krukow has been a fixture of San Francisco Giants' radio and TV for 26 years. He's a future Hall of Famer. Today was his last day. If you're not familiar with the Giants, it's impossible to know how much he's meant to fans. And on his last day, he got a great sendoff.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 28/09/2026

This Krukow sendoff is punching me in the feels.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 20/09/2026

DSDS 0.21.0 is out. - A new style guide for how to structure/order the schema - traits' traitType now provides more explicit callout to variants vs states via traitType - sections can now carry tags for easier categorization - A new apiId allows for mapping prop/attribute names to traits and combos

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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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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 17/09/2026

Hey, just a quick note: I’m constantly on the hunt for design systems content for Designsystems.news. Specifically: * Not written by AI * Not entirely about AI * Not published on some paywalled/subwalled platform (includes Medium/Substack) Send me your links—would love to read them.

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Design systems news

Design systems news is a weekly design systems editorial by PJ Onori.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 15/09/2026

I’m not sure if we‘re in the hardest time for design systems, but we’re definitely in the weirdest.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 14/09/2026

Age of Ultron hits different in 2026.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 14/09/2026

In 2026, you choose your CMS based in part by how much drama you can tolerate.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 14/09/2026

I'll never dismiss what Atomic Design has done to create an approachable model for design system hierarchies. That said, I find the divisions subjective—which in turn leads to wildly different interpretations.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 13/09/2026

It’s hard to watch this as a design system practitioner and not have a nagging, “are we the baddies?” moment. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjX...

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Why Nothing Looks Cool Anymore

YouTube video by Design Theory

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 11/09/2026

Wait, hold up—HOLD UP! OpenAI is being accused of unethical behavior?!?

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 09/09/2026

What Are we even doing if I can’t fold my phone at least 8 times.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 03/09/2026

Theater all to myself. An introvert’s dream.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 02/09/2026

We call that a “majority” where I come from.

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Design system office hours podcast @officehours.systems · 02/09/2026

Do you know what an AI-native design system is? Neither do we. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Ep 105: What's an AI-Native DS?

Podcast Episode · Design System Office Hours · August 11 · 34m

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 30/08/2026

DSDS update. I'm pretty much done with a full, start-from-scratch redesign of the schema based on what I've learned. The only thing that's holding back publishing is the documentation. I'm trying to make the docs site simpler. I'm hoping to have something ready by next week.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 28/08/2026

The new Mastodon album is good.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/08/2026

Meta is a creep who will _never_ take no for an answer, and never stop trying to ignore their lack of consent. Every media & regulatory organization in the world seems determined to ignore this reality; I genuinely don't understand why. Today's settlement is so that Meta can keep violating consent.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 26/08/2026

Your design system doesn’t work well with agents. Maybe it does. Either way, are you sure? We’ve been crankin’ on this at Sanity. We made a tool to test agents with our design system. And not just our system, yours should work too. Read all about it here: www.sanity.io/engineering/...

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How well do agents use your design system? | Sanity

We figured out how to run agent evals for design systems, so you can too.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 25/08/2026

Big shout out to @facianea.bsky.social who has become my favorite podcast listen. Alex, you‘re a cool cat. It’s a real joy to hear you talk about art, media, and everything else.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 25/08/2026

The level of stupid...

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 24/08/2026

I’m imagining Walt Disney transporting to the future, opening Disney+, and playing Punisher: One Last Kill...

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 23/08/2026

Listened to DHH in a podcast yesterday. Got some serious manic vibes.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 14/08/2026

What’s a word for something that’s more pathetic than pathetic?

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 14/08/2026

The new mastodon album is going to be awesome if the three released songs are any indicator of the rest.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 03/08/2026

This feedback related to the design system doc spec has been lingering in my mind. I agree. It can be much better—but I think it'll need a start-from-scratch effort. But no better time than now.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 31/07/2026

I don’t know how I can more diplomatically say that Figma’s autolayout is a mess without watering down the sentiment.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 31/07/2026

The design system documentation spec project is now a proposed W3C community group. www.w3.org/community/bl... Big thanks to Cassondra Roberts for the suggestion.

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Proposed Group: Design System Documentation Community Group | Community and Business Groups

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Design system office hours podcast @officehours.systems · 24/07/2026

That episode where we make a comment offhand how this episode isn't about AI and then repeatedly talk about AI. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Ep 104: The Governance Junk Drawer

Podcast Episode · Design System Office Hours · July 22 · 35m

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 19/07/2026

The initial DSDS site is not something I'm proud of. It's not well written, overly complicated, and just a big ball of meh. I'm working to fix that with a full copywriting pass and improved docs site. Hoping to have something public by next week.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 17/07/2026

Design system spacing tokens and guidelines have typically been one of those, “we tried our best” topics. But I think I may stumbled on a model that could actually produce something useful. Excited to give it a go.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 15/07/2026

The country’s leadership has lost its damned mind.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/07/2026

If you’re a software engineer, designer, or technologist who wants to help make City government work better and faster, apply to join our PIT crews at nyc.gov/pitcrew.

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