Scott Riley @scott.is · 3ha lot of us out here putting in a tonne of effort to teach folks useful shit with just wildly diminished pay-off for the effort, even compared to a few years back. i think there's a bunch of reasons for this, most of which makes me incredibly grateful for folks who do invest in learning new shit. 1203
Reposted by Scott RileyAndy Bell @bell.bz · 9hNew on the blogbell.bzIn response to “The death of web development education”I read Mathias Schäfer’s excellent post, titled The death of web development education. I was thinking about how I can contribute to the conversation and really struggled to articulate the problem. The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time… 24713
Reposted by Scott Rileyjordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 23/07/2026RONALD REAGAN IS IN HELL WAITING FOR HEAVEN TO TRICKLE DOWN 152891663
Scott Riley @scott.is · 28/09/2026i really enjoyed the first season of dept q and now i learn they've replaced kelly macdonald with… james corden? are casting directors okay? 440
Scott Riley @scott.is · 28/09/2026one thing that i've noticed has just gone away in The Age Of Shipping Six Thousand Fucking Pointless Features is the purposeful pessimism that helps you realise how your work could be used for harm. it was never popular, but now it's almost fucking impossible to get people to slow down and think. 1131
Scott Riley @scott.is · 28/09/2026doing this but it's just 14 cans of pink monster arranged in a shrine to baphomet and six vegan pepperamis covered in vajazzle 1151
Reposted by Scott RileyLarge Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 28/09/2026✍️ The AI Artist Paradox heydonworks.com/article/the-... Where AI is *either* intelligent or unintelligent, its usage precludes you from making art.heydonworks.comThe AI Artist ParadoxWhichever way you cut it, you cannot be an AI artist. 0175
Scott Riley @scott.is · 27/09/2026a hill i will die on is that interstellar is not the greatest movie soundtrack. it is not even the greatest hans zimmer soundtrack. kung fu panda is both. 200
Reposted by Scott RileyJames Nash @cirrus.twiddles.com · 23/09/2026Terrazzo's parser can be used standalone: terrazzo.app/docs/referen... For very noddy stuff there's also my own, half-arsed thing: github.com/c1rrus/dtcg-... ..though, as the name suggests, it's more of building block you might use to build a proper parser :-Pterrazzo.appJS APIDesign 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. 221
Scott Riley @scott.is · 23/09/2026i worded this really badly. i am specifically looking for a package/util that can help parse DTCG JSON (preferably with strong types) so i can then _do the things_ with the parsed data (e.g. auto-populate a table with a list of color tokens). i am not looking for a design system/token platform. 100
Scott Riley @scott.is · 23/09/2026has anyone built a reliable DTCG JSON parser yet that isn't part of some huge AI-design-kit bundle? i really do not want to have to do this myself with all the idiosyncratic types and data shapes they have. 400
Scott Riley @scott.is · 23/09/2026when the world moves on from all this ‘make shitty things but make them very quickly’ nonsense there’s gonna be a lot of folks out there who could’ve learned to make great things but spent three years stuck in a cycle of toxic adequacy. i really hope we stop this incessant devaluing of craft. 4411
Scott Riley @scott.is · 22/09/2026the fun thing with these/this product(s) is that if you like them but hate that there’s no remote sync then you can self-host and then (if you want to use dexie cloud) enabling live sync is like a three-line non-breaking change and will cost you a whopping twelve pence a month. 092
Scott Riley @scott.is · 22/09/2026kanban enjoyers: do you see a value in having an explicit 'priority' on your cards? my heart says yes (because i have built it) but my head says that implicit priority through card ordering is kinda the whole point. if no, does your answer change if you’re kanbanananning multiple projects? 320
Scott Riley @scott.is · 22/09/2026wild how every app just breaks all the time during these Times of Unprecedented Creativity and Efficiency™ 3190
Scott Riley @scott.is · 22/09/2026dungeon synth might just be the best coding background music www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYbX...youtube.comWitch Bolt - Bellow (Dungeon Synth, Dungeon Ambient, Non-AI DS)YouTube video by Witch Bolt 250
Scott Riley @scott.is · 22/09/2026i knew i’d eventually have to remove the contact page from my site and predictably enough it’s down to someone spamming with racist shit. hope you used a vpn bro xoxo 150
Reposted by Scott RileyYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026calling in sick to the kickflip factory and confusing everyone as to whether i'm coming in or not 71312382
Scott Riley @scott.is · 22/09/2026new carly rae jepsen is ~okay but can't get past how it sounds like someone just found all the stock vocal plugins in logic and decided to have a one-per-song rule for all the weird ones. 130
Reposted by Scott RileyAndy Bell @bell.bz · 22/09/2026The @piccalil.li PRICEFALL event ends at midnight UTC so there's still time to save 80 big ones piccalil.li/courses/ 165
Scott Riley @scott.is · 22/09/2026scaling back training means scaling back food and let me tell you folks, going from maintaining weight at ~3,500kcal to living off whatever the fuck these hello fresh baby meals are is an absolute nightmare. 140
Scott Riley @scott.is · 21/09/2026hey babe can u check this captcha i think something’s wrong ur not on it ❣️🥹 👉👈 161
Scott Riley @scott.is · 21/09/2026i don’t think you get to simultaneously call yourself a leftist and champion ai. i am not the socialism police. i am not lieutenant engels. but i don’t know how you can square away ‘mass theft of labour in the name of further labour exploitation’ as anything other than deeply orthodox capitalism. 4359
Scott Riley @scott.is · 21/09/2026toby lutke looks like he got distracted by a cool racist tweet half way through transforming into a lesser horseshoe bat futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.com"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's WroughtShopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight. 2110
Scott Riley @scott.is · 21/09/2026seven more new (to you?) bangers have been added to tha_fuckin_jukebox m8s. give your ears a lil treat this week. scott.isscott.isScott is… making fun shitWelcome, dear friend, to my little slice of the web. This is where you’ll find whatever piece of myself I have been able to plonk into the ether. 060
Scott Riley @scott.is · 21/09/2026only new github feature i give a fuck about is them no longer helping ICE put kids in cages. can someone whose job it is to try and make github still appear good on the socials tag me when that happens? 0101
Scott Riley @scott.is · 21/09/2026css: i can do anything bro. i can do fuckin a-level maths. i can do blend modes bro. i can oklch any fuckin time. i do layers bro so sick bro. me: can i make checkbox not ugly pls? css: i am going to the shops to get some milk 2390
Scott Riley @scott.is · 21/09/2026hello i am a very cool and talented professional marketer! i think that writing a ’top 10 [x] tools’ article that includes our own product and pollutes any search anyone might run is one of the best marketing strategies in the world!! i also still get a bath with my dad!!! 2220
Reposted by Scott RileyPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Every chatbot prompt box says "check answers for accuracy." But increasingly, "humans in the loop" refuse to do that. Instead, they become complicit in the AI industry's project of destroying the provenance of information. But you are person, and it is an app. It can't take responsibility for you.productpicnic.beehiiv.comAssigning agency to AI means surrendering your ownClaude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product. 825385
Reposted by Scott RileyMark Tomlinson @marktomlinson.dev · 18/09/2026Fewer startups, more co-ops. Fewer founders, more communities. 612227
Scott Riley @scott.is · 18/09/2026reckon i owe like 17% of my career to @fontawesome.com at this point. don’t think i’d start half the projects i finish if i had to actually look for icons. 271
Scott Riley @scott.is · 18/09/2026i see your stepdad is posting ai tool tier lists on linkedin again 020
Scott Riley @scott.is · 18/09/2026honestly wild how many truly fantastic folks are out of work and then there’s just absolute reams of mediocrity spilling out into this hellscape of an industry every single day. it’s like not a single tech company has made anything good since 2021. 1342
Reposted by Scott RileyAndy Bell @bell.bz · 18/09/2026New on the blogbell.bzYou’ll miss publishers when they’re goneEver since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back each other. When CSS-Tricks was initially acquired by DigitalOcean, I was really happy for Chris. The work that he’d put into that publication… 08825
Scott Riley @scott.is · 17/09/2026depending on your location you can get the digital version of mindful design: second edition on sale for as little as £13.99. this is quite rare because the publisher usually insists on charging far too much for this book. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...link.springer.comMindful DesignThis fully updated version shows how to create seamless designs backed by a responsible understanding of the human mind. 1125
Scott Riley @scott.is · 17/09/2026clockin in at the code factory to commit my daily 8hrs of corporate-sanctioned-fascist-adjacent fraud! sure am a creative and productive human being! there is a hole in my brain where art used to live! soon i will forget entirely how to love!!! 0120
Scott Riley @scott.is · 17/09/2026hell yeah i’m ready for the agentic era. the agent i am most excited for is agentlebreeze on my face as i gaze upon the beauty of nature in a moment of serenity and contentedness knowing that at least this sanctuary survived us (i am staring wistfully, knowingly, into the pond at zoomies zone) 1232
Scott Riley @scott.is · 16/09/2026i am very burned out but tomorrow i have cleared my calendar so i can take my dog to a closed off field (she is v. sweet but also reactive) called zoomies zone and honestly i might just fuckin stay there forever. 3150
Scott Riley @scott.is · 16/09/2026actually on second thought lemme check the fridge i think i’ve got a tupperware full of broken glass i’d rather fucking snack on 4311
Scott Riley @scott.is · 16/09/2026a big chunk of what you think ‘only ai can do’ with design systems can be solved by doing the one thing that design systems are perfectly set up to do that no one actually does: build a declarative ui layer on top of it. you will build faster than ur fav lil guessbox and stay in full control. 2170
Scott Riley @scott.is · 16/09/2026sometimes i get sad when i’m overlooked for certain roles or projects and then i remember what my website looks like and how my portfolio is the equivalent of a fallout new vegas data log that no one ever reads and yeah okay maybe i need to just design a landing page for my actual work. 7270
Scott Riley @scott.is · 16/09/2026did a lil poll in the course discord about what to add as a new module (or NEW GAME PLUS BABEYYY as @wil.to would have it) and looks like NG+ is gonna be all about design systems. should be a nice lil new year launch. you can grab the course now if you wanna get ahead! piccalil.li/mindful-desi...piccalil.liMindful DesignA high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable. 0102
Reposted by Scott Rileyda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"DA TIPING POINT " - dashare.zone ADMIN 024934
Scott Riley @scott.is · 16/09/2026'i am not complicit just because i am complicit' fuck off edward 190
Scott Riley @scott.is · 16/09/2026every design job posting rn: wE uSe CuRSoR aNd CLaUdE tO cRaFt eArLy pRoToTyPes ThAt wE tHeN rEfiNe bY hAnD grow up. get a life. i’m just gonna build better things than your shitty saas as a hobby and learn to fuckin lay bricks. 3340
Scott Riley @scott.is · 15/09/2026one cool thing i learned building apps where drag-and-drop reordering was a focal feature, as someone who has previously been bodied by trying to get dnd to work, is fractional indexing. i’m no expert, but it’s a great way to say ‘give me an index that is reliably between this thing and that thing’. 260
Reposted by Scott RileyPiccalilli @piccalil.li · 15/09/2026There's only one week left of our huge 35% discount on all courses if you use the coupon code PRICEFALL at checkout. Don't miss out! piccalil.li/courses/ 045