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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 15/09/2026

It's totally fine for us to have differing opinions, too.

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 15/09/2026

yeah, that's my argument. AI tooling can make anyone, regardless of title, able to contribute to code.

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 15/09/2026

To me, that should be in code too. A documentation site explaining what the things should or should not do. My push is for design engineering - why use a completely different system when this is another great example of something that can exist in code?

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 15/09/2026

There's been a lot of discussions around the "Design Engineer"/"Design Technologist" role lately. There's always been the debate of whether the source of truth should be Figma or code. These two things are related in my eyes and I wrote some thoughts on the subject. www.tonyward.dev/articles/cod...

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Code as the Source of Truth - Tony Ward

With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 03/09/2026

Followed - I think once you follow we can DM!

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 02/09/2026

Our Design System serves our 400+ UI engineers building products. Happy to chat more if you'd like! (fwiw, I'm not on here often anymore [touching grass irl more] so apologies for any delay)

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 02/09/2026

Yeah, Nathan, spot on. Unfortunately we moved off of open source and to closed. But our Design System components remain with a closed shadow root without any issues/complaints. We open them up in tests, but that's it.

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 07/08/2026

I appreciate that! 🫶

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 07/08/2026

I know nothing, but I think your hunch about agents is probably right.

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 06/08/2026

Yeah, it was great to see!

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 06/08/2026

Thanks! Wanted to try something different than a horizontal progress indicator, and that’s the only idea I had 😂

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 06/08/2026

Just switched www.tonyward.dev from NextJS over to @astro.build Went from 25 dependencies to 7. Four of them are devDeps. Zero JavaScript. No more Tailwind, MDX, React, etc., It was a great personal project to learn more about Astro.

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Tony Ward - Design Engineer

I love building Design Systems and tools to help teams ship faster.

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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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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 24/07/2026

So Jaylen Brown + Lebron?

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Joey Arhar @josepharhar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hi! I'm working on a new HTML feature: filterable select There are two proposed API shapes so far: 1. Nesting <input> in <select> 2. Sibling <input> for listbox <select> w/id ref Option 1 is more ergonomic, but would break selects in older browsers Thoughts? (Both currently in Canary w/flag)

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 05/07/2026

🤝 Appreciate y’all!

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Jacques Newman @jacquesnewman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

focusgroup has shipped in chromium 150! developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-... Its been a long time coming, glad to have been able to get this out the door! Also note that there polyfill ready to go: www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...

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New in Chrome 150 | Blog | Chrome for Developers

CSS text-fit property, Focusgroup declarative keyboard navigation, and CSS background-clip border-area.

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 02/07/2026

Can’t believe it. RIP Boston.

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 01/07/2026

I feel ya! I’ll have to take time off to properly play GTA6

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 30/06/2026

If you play, I’ll play!

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 30/06/2026

Ain't much, but wrote some thoughts last night on what I'm playing with, what excites me, and some random thoughts. www.tonyward.dev/articles/202...

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Top of Mind: June 29 2026 - Tony Ward

Topics on my mind as of this date. Ramblings.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 29/06/2026

#DesignSystems friends, I'm hiring a #designengineer. It's a weird role, and I'm a weird boss, so I made this kick-off video to introduce both! SF or Remote (US). Apply here: grnh.se/zzirri2l3us

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 30/06/2026

🎉 Fluent Web Components v3.0.0 is published! (More compelling details about this huge milestone will be shared in the coming days, from folks who are better at making announcements than me) web-components.fluentui.dev

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Fluent UI Web Components

Fluent UI Web Components is a set of UI components and utilities built with web standards.

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 29/06/2026

Hell yeah. Congrats and nice work!

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 24/06/2026

I feel this so much ❤️😭

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 24/06/2026

Oh hell yeah! Congrats! And cool to see y’all in open source ❤️

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Una Kravets @una.im · 23/06/2026

I literally had this blog post in my drafts since March 😆 But then I was waiting for browser support and then event season happened. HERE IT IS THOUGH. As promised at #CSSDay

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 23/06/2026

I wrote a small article explaining how to animate the <dialog> element using the View Transition API. The article also goes into Invoker Commands API and it concludes with some handy tips and tricks that improve the default behaviour of the <dialog> modal. pqina.nl/blog/animati...

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Animating The Dialog Element Using View Transitions

In this article we look at animating the <dialog> element using the View Transition API. We’ll follow progressive enhancement so it’s only used when supported and when the user allows animations...

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 09/06/2026

To put it in his own words post-Olympics 2 years back: "I'm worried for the opponents in a couple years"

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 09/06/2026

And it was the MAIN broadcast!

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 09/06/2026

Oddly enough, on YouTubeTV Pat's broadcast looks way clearer and high resolution than the main one. So Pat's stream it is for me

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Alex Riviere @dangitalex.wtf · 08/06/2026

CUSTOMIZABLE SELECT IS IN SAFARI 27!!

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 07/06/2026

Hit a similar situation a few months ago and was soooooo pissed it made me sleep LESS and I was more tired than if I didn’t take one. Hope you can improve your sleep. Insomnia sucks. ❤️

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 05/06/2026

Excellent. Thank you!

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 05/06/2026

Thanks Lorenz! This is helpful. How/Where do y’all handle the versioning of the DS components? Is it a build step by the MFEs? Something else?

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Tony Ward @tonyward.dev · 04/06/2026

The former! No problems with the latter, as you could imagine.

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