Sam I am Designs 🫶 🇨🇦

An email from Mark Wang with a suspicious looking email address expressing eagerness to work together, received in the inbox amid junk messages.

The tech gremlins have been pushing Google and Zoom meeting invites into my spam and junk over the last two weeks, but somehow this one makes it to the inbox? I certainly don't want to work with Mr. Wang, but I do need to get work emails from folks I've already been chatting with! 😂 WTF

“Unless the design system you’ve built is structured as a genuine contract that those (AT) tools can read and reason against, you’re accumulating bespoke UI at speed and calling it productivity.” - MT 🙌

This was a fantastic read

Breaking change...

Reasons why it's been 5 years of trying and I still don't fully get Git in infographic form...

As someone who just wrote Claude.md rules to "avoid all special characters and Unicode because you can't always render them" this feels timely!!

I spent all weekend manually editing mistakes cowork implemented across 40+ docs for FFUI so I feeellll you! 🙈

Claude chat = thinker, decent writer
Cowork = the grunt work
Code = technical wizard, on demand dev

~7 years ago I started curating a list of Design Tokens resources on GitHub… today I launch something better.

An updated, tagged collection of 292+ articles on design tokens.

www.alwaystwisted.com/projects/dtm...

more links/resources coming soon.

🙏🖤

#DesignTokens #DesignSystems #WebDev

Currently looking at changing flights to add a long layover in NL to come hang!!

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

“Creating is energizing. Reviewing is draining…”

siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...

Who will I see in the chat? I'm doing something totally different this time 🎶🎧👩🏼‍💻

Thank you for being brave enough to say this on behalf of all of us who put ourselves out there and receive the same kind of feedback! 🫶

I love the storybook display of this!!

Dark-mode developer workspace (claude co-work) showing a chat-style assistant drafting "Generate IconButton component" docs, file list and progress sidebar visible.

Dark-themed workspace (claude co-work) showing a documentation editor with bullet-point notes on IconButton token fixes, file sidebar and a progress/file list panel.

I should have guessed when Claude was on Struggle Street this week, they were about to push something big 😻 Opus 4.6

Cowork is checking Figma data (Anova plugin YAML), comparing it to my design token JSON files + ADR's, reviewing Radix open-source docs, and writing my component architecture docs 🤯

Same! It was only thanks to the Google Doodle that I figured it out! 🥌

Ooooh yes!! And thanks for the reminder to add "replace my bento" to my to-do list. This looks promising!

I've had a vault in git before. Can be a bit problematic but not impossible.

With the new Claude Cowork feature that was announced right after so made this wish it might be easier!!

No-code integration with Claude. I'm already using Claude desktop and notion desktop (not a dev, mild allergy to the terminal).

I'd love to use Claude desktop to chat with and write my docs vs the endless copy pasta back and forth to my vault!

I struggle as a non dev with the lack of step by step guides on how to use these things to get started.

I tried Claude code after mastering lovable and Claude chat via the desktop app and almost threw my computer in the bin because I was so frustrated.

Why can't Claude chat just write to git!

A Better Figma MCP or How To Let Claude Design The one where we give Claude access to the Figma API

what if the Figma MCP wasn't actually useless and let you write to your Figma files? (its easy)

cianfrani.dev/posts/a-bett...

Curious if you've tried this with Claude chrome tool they recently released... I really need the Claude code for people still mildly allergic to the terminal with nmp anxious tendencies... 😂

Same! When we moved I bought the previous gen ikea smart bulbs to fill in the gaps and pairing them has been such a PITA! I was stoked to see hue has a newer line at a comparable price point. I wonder how these ones from IKEA will work with hue bridges. 🤔

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I'm still working away at my interactive systems mapping tool, and I can't wait to see what 2026 has in store for me now that I've unlocked how to build tools that are truly lovable. 🫶

lovable.dev/invite/J9MKT53 if you want 10 free credits on top of the 5 free daily credits you get out of the box.

Bright gradient card showing "My 2025" with stats: 9/10 politeness, 247 messages, 170K lines, title "Elite Vibe Coder" and 5.7K hours saved.

Dark gradient card proclaiming a politeness score: "Your politeness score is 9/10," with a note saying you say "please" and "thank you" more than 91% of builders.

Bold text declares "Elite Vibe Coder" over a colorful gradient starburst, with praise about astronomical code output and Lovable branding.

Bright gradient card showing "247 Messages" with supportive tagline about building your vision and Lovable app branding.

Wanna guess which of these stats I'm the most proud of? 🙏 Top 10% of builders globally using Lovable is WILD, seeing as I started using it in Dec for SheBuilds, where I sent almost 200 messages in 48hrs. However, it's the 9/10 in the politeness score that made me smile. 🫶

got my full listening history export from Spotify and want to ingest it into @teal.fm—anybody build this yet?

I've been waiting for the day RSS makes a comeback!! I've been using Innoreader but I'm not sure it's the best!

Curious what other folks are using.

2026 is the year I spend more time in RSS. What are your fav feeds? 👀

Come and join us in February for the first Smashing Meets of 2026!

We'll be talking about everything Design Systems with the lovely @bencallahan.com, @samiamdesigns.bsky.social, and @geoffgraham.me.

We hope you will join us online. Tickets are free 💞

smashingconf.com/meets-design...

@nerdy.dev you are missed 🫶

Does anyone in my bsky vicinity have experience with game design? I’m working on a game design document and I’d love to either pick your brain, or maybe we can work on this concept of mine together.

Don’t get caught up in the silly design system debate on whether design or code is the “real source of truth.” We all know the authoritative source of truth is actually a spreadsheet.