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Caroline Horn

@curiouschaos.com

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Designing in browser, aka designer-engineer dedicated to design systems and mostly nerding out on CSS and documentation. Now @ Ramp, formerly @ Elastic 🔗 curiouschaos.com 🌎 DMV

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 5d

Everyone sees the problem with this, right? .... Right!?

The 3 different colors if the recently announced NEO home robot in cream, light blue and black against a stark white background.

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 28

Lol, likely a fox? We have a neighborhood one that loves to steal shoes and leave them on other people's doorsteps

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 12

Them: What's the standard for this?
Me: This
Them: I don't like the standard, can we change it?
Me: For what?
Them: For this custom thing
Me: We dont have a standard for that custom thing
Them: Then what should be standard for this custom thing?
Me: Its custom, go talk to who made it!
#designsystems

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 10

Im calling it.

It's officially cider season! 🍎

a group of people toasting with mason jars of apple cider .

Alt: a group of people toasting with mason jars of apple cider .

media.tenor.com

Reposted by Caroline Horn

Dave Snider @davesnider.com · Sep 8

Here here! If there's anything 25 years of coding CSS has taught me is that the road to the present is filled with ways to write CSS that no longer exist and have died off. Regular ol' CSS is a constant that will always work, and will always be the most valuable skill. Hell, it's never been better.

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 8

And it just keeps getting better!

Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 8

I know tailwind already gets so much flak, but here's some more...

It's failing our young developers. They're not actually learning CSS.

CSS is transferable. Tailwind is not.

This is my hill.

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 5

Thank you for this!

Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 3

Welcome to... "everything aches"!

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 3

Sigh... i feel like even in the "ass..." example, folks will try to convince by saying "just don't truncate in the middle of words".

I feel like I just need to ask, "As a consumer of products, when were you ever delighted that something was truncated?" 😄

Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 2

Tooltips only work some of the time and have usability issues of their own.

Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Sep 2

How do folks handle education around the topic of truncation? I find this is the fallback for designers who want "prettier" layouts and engineers implementing "responsive" design.

How do you show them how terrible the UX of it is? Or force them to think through how users access the full content?

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UXISTENTIALISM @pegahahmadi.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hi 👋 Finally joined Bluesky! I know some of the design systems folks are here. Would love to connect and swap ideas. #designsystems

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Aug 31

Hi! @sturobson.com Made this helpful start pack. go.bsky.app/MR3D82R

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Aug 29

My pull requests these days

Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Aug 15

I'm curious of your process and how you went from blank slate to final result. Especially how long it took. Was this all scratch from a prompt?

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Aug 10

Browser support. The main one being older Safari not supporting nesting.

Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Aug 9

I'm struggling not to squish!

A black cat sleeps on a fluffy blanket in a cozy room with wooden beams. A deer head decoration hangs on a white wall, creating a calm ambiance.

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Dave House @iknowdavehouse.bsky.social · Aug 7

Contribution in design systems is mostly people applying a go faster stripe to their own car and then asking Honda to include it as standard.

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Aug 7

I believe so. That's just not my team.

Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Aug 6

I'm hiring, again! I'm looking for a strong (senior+) design-engineer (full 50/50 split) to join our design system team. Come bring the craft back to UI design!

Senior Design-Engineer | Design Systems

ABOUT RAMP At Ramp, we’re rebuilding how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isn’t just the next big wave. It’s the new foundation for how business gets done. We’re investin...

jobs.ashbyhq.com

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Aug 5

Lol. Take that AI!

Github screenshot: @chorn_ramp thank you you're amazing. You're like the Cursor bot, super quick, thorough, but you're correct 100% of the time instead of 25% of the time 😂

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Mia (online) @miriam.codes · Jul 30

CSS mixins & functions are coming! And the best way to prepare is by re-visiting CSS variables.

Don’t let the Guaranteed Invalid value & Invalid at Computed Value Time behavior trip you up. Watch my CSS Day talk, or book a workshop to go in depth with modern #CSS!

www.oddbird.net/talks/mixins/

CSS Functions & Mixins

Is sass dead yet?

www.oddbird.net

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Jul 25

Omg, same!! But I thought it was a bee!

Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Jul 24

I didn't *mean* to take this pretty of a picture of a beetle. But look at this pretty picture of a beetle!

A large beetle sits on a leaf at night, backlit with the light shining through its brown body