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Design Engineer • TypeScript, React, Design Systems, Figma • Blog: http://dev.to/aaronmcadam

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Passing the 1K mark felt amazing, then the star count started losing its meaning (downloads are more relevant).

But 10K kicks it back into the excitement zone. Onwards 🚀

23.01.2026 22:41 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Vox Product Accessibility Guidelines As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.

Everyone who works on a website has a role to ensure the site and its content are accessible. This resource from Vox Media breaks down some accessibility tasks by job role, including content creators, designers, developers, project managers, and testers.

accessibility.voxmedia.com

07.01.2026 16:24 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Not exactly happy Christmas reading but it helped me understand it’s not only me feeling that everything is broken 😂

19.12.2025 16:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War – the instant Sunday Times bestseller Adventures in the Culture War – the instant Sunday Times bestseller

Agreed, it’s hilarious to see everyone asking him their “gotcha” questions and seeing him bar them away so effortlessly. I’m a big fan of Ash Sarkar too. You should check out her book if you haven’t already. It explains a lot of how we got here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/mino...

19.12.2025 16:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

18.12.2025 23:48 👍 38770 🔁 8518 💬 82 📌 772
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Lihua Zhang (Chinese Artist, born 1963)
"Winter (Four Seasons in my Hometown)", 1996.
Japanese Woodblock Print.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

19.12.2025 04:47 👍 244 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 0

Great post as always! What do you think of Zack Polanski, Andy?

19.12.2025 15:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Shit this is shocking, I knew it was bad, but this seriously fucked up: ai using as much water as the water bottle industry????

19.12.2025 15:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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GitHub - zustandjs/zustand-indexeddb: Persist Zustand stores in IndexedDB. Persist Zustand stores in IndexedDB. Contribute to zustandjs/zustand-indexeddb development by creating an account on GitHub.

Using Vitest Browser Mode to test this package that allows you to persist your Zustand store in IndexedDB.

github.com/zustandjs/z...

The code that's meant to run in the browser is meant to be tested in the browser. VBM makes it silly easy.

09.12.2025 16:53 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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February lace by Vasily Khudyakov (Russian, b.1983).
Oil on canvas | 70 x 60 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

08.12.2025 16:06 👍 408 🔁 41 💬 6 📌 3

There’s few folks as reliable, thoughtful, and no-nonsense as @bell.bz. I’ve known him a long time and I don’t endorse people lightly.

If you’re looking for a studio/agency to get your project going, I couldn’t recommend Set.Studio enough:

set.studio

28.11.2025 18:13 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Ah I’m on mobile right now, maybe that’s why I can’t see it.

29.11.2025 13:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can’t seem to find the discount code in my Polypane dashboard though, can you help?

29.11.2025 13:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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we have to go back. to warn them.

28.11.2025 02:49 👍 12534 🔁 1593 💬 273 📌 106

I think it's been proven time and time again that people only care about things when they have to pay for them.

They'll eat the slop if it's free.

28.11.2025 03:29 👍 733 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 0
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters”

The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist.

But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building.

I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

28.11.2025 03:27 👍 22311 🔁 7572 💬 21 📌 0

Same for me… might be time to make the switch then so!

28.11.2025 13:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How does it compare with Sizzy? Have you used Sizzy?

28.11.2025 12:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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27.11.2025 22:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

21.11.2025 13:21 👍 2372 🔁 794 💬 76 📌 113
A speaker presenting on stage at a tech conference, standing in front of a large screen displaying the slide “Experimental Vitest support.” The audience is seated in a spacious hall with arched architecture and soft purple lighting, creating a professional and engaging atmosphere.

A speaker presenting on stage at a tech conference, standing in front of a large screen displaying the slide “Experimental Vitest support.” The audience is seated in a spacious hall with arched architecture and soft purple lighting, creating a professional and engaging atmosphere.

⚡️Finally! The official statement!

@vitest.dev is now the official #Angular #testing framework 💪

06.11.2025 09:08 👍 52 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 2
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The Microskills Theory of Programming - Coding Is Like Cooking How to Succeed with Technical Coaching Software Developers are constantly shifting between activities. It might all be ‘coding’ but when you look more closely there are hundreds of distinct activities...

I wrote a blog post today "The Microskills Theory of Programming": coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/10/the-...

31.10.2025 12:08 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Yeah that’s where I landed by defining theme variables. Works very well

11.10.2025 21:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No problem buddy! I must check out your course on there too 🙂

11.10.2025 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is absolutely gorgeous 😍 Just order a copy, some specimens, and this awesome poster: www.type-together.com/index.php?ac...

10.10.2025 20:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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React 19.2 – React The library for web and native user interfaces

React 19.2 is now available!

This release includes Activity, useEffectEvent, React Performance Tracks, partial pre-rendering, and more:

react.dev/blog/2025/10...

01.10.2025 21:49 👍 211 🔁 50 💬 4 📌 11

<Activity> - The most exciting React feature just came out!

Hide a React subtree and unmount its Effects while preserving its state, and keep rendering it with lower priority.

Unlocks very exciting pre-rendering patterns along the way!

More Activity modes are coming

01.10.2025 22:46 👍 61 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1

Cézanne vibes ❤️

24.09.2025 06:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mindful Design A high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

Pre-orders for Mindful Design are available now.

Get a pre-order copy for £149, saving £100 off the full price of £249 for two weeks only.

Pre-orders close again after September 30

16.09.2025 08:00 👍 20 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 9
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In London, hate will never win.

17.09.2025 06:10 👍 7701 🔁 2188 💬 237 📌 328