mandy
@mandynicole.com
👩🏻💻 designer/developer
🪄 [re]building an authentic and accessible web
🧙♀️ she/her | 🌲 pnw
💻 https://mandynicole.com
🧪 https://codepen.io/mandynicole
🪄 [re]building an authentic and accessible web
🧙♀️ she/her | 🌲 pnw
💻 https://mandynicole.com
🧪 https://codepen.io/mandynicole
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As if Figma didn't already burn enough trust with designers, now they are also silently opting everyone in to let them train their AI on your work.
For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?
For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?
From the UXDesign community on Reddit: PSA for Figma Admins: This AI setting is quietly enabled by default
Explore this post and more from the UXDesign community
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December 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As if Figma didn't already burn enough trust with designers, now they are also silently opting everyone in to let them train their AI on your work.
For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?
For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?
Schmidt Ocean staff decked out ROV SuBastion by putting little creatures with Santa hats on their specimen containers, a reindeer sleigh on one of the tray extenders, and a candy cane along the frame for today's dive. 😊
December 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Schmidt Ocean staff decked out ROV SuBastion by putting little creatures with Santa hats on their specimen containers, a reindeer sleigh on one of the tray extenders, and a candy cane along the frame for today's dive. 😊
So much admiration for Steve and the GN crew's unwavering exposés on what's happening in tech right now while underscoring that it is a concerted effort to transfer the ownership of data, devices, and intellectual freedom from individuals to private equity at the expense of human rights.
Tech mega-corporations are post-consumer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrJ...
NVIDIA: WTF?
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
So much admiration for Steve and the GN crew's unwavering exposés on what's happening in tech right now while underscoring that it is a concerted effort to transfer the ownership of data, devices, and intellectual freedom from individuals to private equity at the expense of human rights.
A reminder that if you're an old mutual, a front-end-oriented person, or a Portlander, I'm a lot more active (and candid) over on Mastodon — front-end.social/@mandy
Using a protocol with public block lists while pushing a culture of "block freely" is ripe for retaliation. This entire platform is a nightmare for anyone that cares about trauma-informed design for digital spaces.
October 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A reminder that if you're an old mutual, a front-end-oriented person, or a Portlander, I'm a lot more active (and candid) over on Mastodon — front-end.social/@mandy
You love to see it.
the website to cancel Xbox Game Pass subscriptions is overloaded
October 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
You love to see it.
On desktop, FF now has these summaries tied to extended keydown on links—which I've come to learn is something I unknowingly do a lot—so not only does an obnoxious UI now interfere with my natural behavior, but it doesn't even work 90% of the time and I wouldn't trust it if it did.
today's post is brought to you by Firefox, which in its latest update will "summarize" pages if you shake your phone
and, if you look in your settings under General > Tabs this new hot garbage which I immediately turned off because it was ON BY DEFAULT like it ALWAYS IS when they do this shit
and, if you look in your settings under General > Tabs this new hot garbage which I immediately turned off because it was ON BY DEFAULT like it ALWAYS IS when they do this shit
September 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
On desktop, FF now has these summaries tied to extended keydown on links—which I've come to learn is something I unknowingly do a lot—so not only does an obnoxious UI now interfere with my natural behavior, but it doesn't even work 90% of the time and I wouldn't trust it if it did.
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if anyone’s looking for aknitomy, I’ll be on my own site, which doesn’t quiiiiite have the foot traffic that etsy does. So feel free to share if you know anyone who needs a knitted dissected frog www.aknitomy.com/shop
Shop — AKNITOMY: The Art of Craft
www.aknitomy.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
if anyone’s looking for aknitomy, I’ll be on my own site, which doesn’t quiiiiite have the foot traffic that etsy does. So feel free to share if you know anyone who needs a knitted dissected frog www.aknitomy.com/shop
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Thank god CSS isn't owned by a company.
Although I use Figma daily, I'm ready to switch to another design tool at any moment. I don't care. I will start using Penpot more, just in case.
Although I use Figma daily, I'm ready to switch to another design tool at any moment. I don't care. I will start using Penpot more, just in case.
Figma is going public
Figma is going public
It will trade under “FIG.”
buff.ly
July 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Thank god CSS isn't owned by a company.
Although I use Figma daily, I'm ready to switch to another design tool at any moment. I don't care. I will start using Penpot more, just in case.
Although I use Figma daily, I'm ready to switch to another design tool at any moment. I don't care. I will start using Penpot more, just in case.
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Reposted by mandy
Made a little demo using sibling-index() to create sparkling celestial objects for some constellation SVGs. Currently requires Chrome Canary with the Experimental Web Features flag enabled.
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
May 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Made a little demo using sibling-index() to create sparkling celestial objects for some constellation SVGs. Currently requires Chrome Canary with the Experimental Web Features flag enabled.
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
Made a little demo using sibling-index() to create sparkling celestial objects for some constellation SVGs. Currently requires Chrome Canary with the Experimental Web Features flag enabled.
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
May 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Made a little demo using sibling-index() to create sparkling celestial objects for some constellation SVGs. Currently requires Chrome Canary with the Experimental Web Features flag enabled.
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
Medical negligence the day prior left nurse Adriana Smith braindead the following morning at 9 weeks pregnant. Georgia is forcing her body to incubate until delivery at her family's expense.
They have been having to tell her young son that she's just "sleeping" to explain why she's still breathing.
They have been having to tell her young son that she's just "sleeping" to explain why she's still breathing.
The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law
Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.
www.11alive.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Medical negligence the day prior left nurse Adriana Smith braindead the following morning at 9 weeks pregnant. Georgia is forcing her body to incubate until delivery at her family's expense.
They have been having to tell her young son that she's just "sleeping" to explain why she's still breathing.
They have been having to tell her young son that she's just "sleeping" to explain why she's still breathing.
A web design app built in the browser that doesn't let you design with actual HTML/CSS, doesn't let you style links, doesn't allow for contextual modifications to variables, and doesn't output semantic code in 2025 is embarrassing and grossly overvalued.
May 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A web design app built in the browser that doesn't let you design with actual HTML/CSS, doesn't let you style links, doesn't allow for contextual modifications to variables, and doesn't output semantic code in 2025 is embarrassing and grossly overvalued.
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the Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines, which eventually spawned the WCAG, was published in 1995. access/assistive tech have been first-class citizens of web tech for 30 years. if you're still "doing a11y" as the last step of your projects, you've never hit the skill floor of web development
May 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
the Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines, which eventually spawned the WCAG, was published in 1995. access/assistive tech have been first-class citizens of web tech for 30 years. if you're still "doing a11y" as the last step of your projects, you've never hit the skill floor of web development
But I was promised the stolen item art I FOMO'd under the false pretense of digital scarcity for the stolen character design I spent my retirement on would exist and magically transfer to every stolen idea for a vaporware web3 game until the end of time.
NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare Plan
🔗 www.404media.co/nfts-that-co...
🔗 www.404media.co/nfts-that-co...
NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare Plan
For a few hours, 19,000 NFTS that Nike helped mint returned a Cloudflare error instead of the picture people promised would live forever online.
www.404media.co
April 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
But I was promised the stolen item art I FOMO'd under the false pretense of digital scarcity for the stolen character design I spent my retirement on would exist and magically transfer to every stolen idea for a vaporware web3 game until the end of time.
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capitalism, and specifically the pressure to maximize economic activity regardless of the social cost, is the biggest impediment to technology that actually serves the needs of the public
April 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
capitalism, and specifically the pressure to maximize economic activity regardless of the social cost, is the biggest impediment to technology that actually serves the needs of the public
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trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
Been writing CSS for 25 years and still only defer to the W3C docs when I can't find the details elsewhere or need to verify them. And every time I do I think a lot about how the poor design and verbosity/lack of examples has pushed visual learners and thinkers—folks we need doing this work—away.
I often imagine redesigning or rewriting the CSS spec to make it clearer. It’s rare to find a spec that doesn’t make me re-read the same thing 10 times 😅
One of the most frustrating experiences when reading CSS specs is that they seem to enjoy adding anchor links that are anchored to the heading of the section you are in the middle of reading.
April 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Been writing CSS for 25 years and still only defer to the W3C docs when I can't find the details elsewhere or need to verify them. And every time I do I think a lot about how the poor design and verbosity/lack of examples has pushed visual learners and thinkers—folks we need doing this work—away.
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A reminder that Lavingia is the CEO of the ever-flailing Gumroad. If you sell digital or physical goods, ko-fi.com is a better alternative and then some.
April 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A reminder that Lavingia is the CEO of the ever-flailing Gumroad. If you sell digital or physical goods, ko-fi.com is a better alternative and then some.
A reminder that Lavingia is the CEO of the ever-flailing Gumroad. If you sell digital or physical goods, ko-fi.com is a better alternative and then some.
April 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A reminder that Lavingia is the CEO of the ever-flailing Gumroad. If you sell digital or physical goods, ko-fi.com is a better alternative and then some.
"On Monday, Adobe's chief people officer, Gloria Chen, said Adobe would no longer have DEI hiring targets.. [which] included increasing female leadership representation to 30% globally, doubling underrepresented minorities in leadership, and doubling Black representation of US employees by 2025."
Adobe's HR chief tells staff: We're done with DEI hiring goals
Adobe shifts away from DEI hiring targets, joining Google and Meta in scaling back diversity efforts.
www.businessinsider.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"On Monday, Adobe's chief people officer, Gloria Chen, said Adobe would no longer have DEI hiring targets.. [which] included increasing female leadership representation to 30% globally, doubling underrepresented minorities in leadership, and doubling Black representation of US employees by 2025."
I do not want to make things for money.
I want to make things to better society.
I want to make things because it is fun.
I want to teach you about the things I love and for you to teach me about things you love too.
I want community to be the currency.
I want to make things to better society.
I want to make things because it is fun.
I want to teach you about the things I love and for you to teach me about things you love too.
I want community to be the currency.
i love making things but don’t love selling them. i would really love if we returned to a pre-money society and i’d trade people in my community pottery for furniture, cake for stew, art for music
March 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I do not want to make things for money.
I want to make things to better society.
I want to make things because it is fun.
I want to teach you about the things I love and for you to teach me about things you love too.
I want community to be the currency.
I want to make things to better society.
I want to make things because it is fun.
I want to teach you about the things I love and for you to teach me about things you love too.
I want community to be the currency.
Going back to designing sites entirely out of image maps.
March 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Going back to designing sites entirely out of image maps.