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🖤 Design Systems Practitioner
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📰 Curates Design Systems News
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🧟‍♂ Horror Fan
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👀 Looking for Design Systems consultancy or front-end development for your project?

📅 I have availability and would love to assist!

👇 Here's some of my recent work

💡 If you’ve got something coming up, let’s chat!

🌐 Visit www.alwaystwisted.com or email me at [email protected]

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an "AI growth zone" sounds painful.
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Aldi Specially Selected All Butter Mince Pies

7/10

not as 'fruity' as I'd hoped, also the icing sugar dusting was a bit sparse.

#XmasMincePieReviews
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
a fresh hair cut, last one was in June 👀
a man in a blue cape is getting his hair cut by a barber
Alt: a scene from Dumb and Dumber where the character, Lloyd Christmas (played by Jim Carey) is getting their hair cut. There is a silver bowl on their head.
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
it’s a hot bowl of soup kinda day.
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
working on a little design tokens command line tool that will

a) take your existing design tokens
b) convert colours to the latest spec.
c) add an $extension for the tool.

… and writing article 14 in my Design Tokens Workflow Series
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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✨ Our Black Friday sale starts NOW.

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This is the *only* promotion we run all year. If you’ve been waiting, now is the time. polypane.app/black-friday/
Polypane Black Friday | Polypane
Get the browser for devs who care
polypane.app
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Reposted by Stuart Robson
Our Mindful Design course is now live!

With hours of elite video and practical exercises, Scott Riley will transform you for the better, whether you’re a beginner, a developer or an experienced designer.

Save £60 and get a 50% discount coupon for our other courses with our launch deal.
Mindful Design
A high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalilli.link
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Stuart Robson
Finally sorted out a black friday/cyber weekend discount for my Terminal Training course.

66% discount with THAT_DISCOUNT_WEEK on the "Master package" - terminal.training

38 videos, perfect for anyone who was faced with "just open the terminal"
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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My first Black Friday sale is here! 🎉

40% off CSS Demystified & Beyond CSS.

This is already the biggest sale I've ever done, plus I'm throwing Flexbox Simplified in for free with either purchase.

Sale runs through Dec 1st.

👉 cssdemystified.com?utm_source=b...
👉 www.beyondcss.dev?utm_source=b...
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Haven’t promoted my book much this year but today’s a good day to share:

The Design for Developers eBook is 50% off.

It’s written to be evergreen — UX foundations, visual principles, color, typography, and more. A reference you can return to again and again.

🛍️ www.manning.com/books/design...
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Let's goooooo
Mindful Design is here!

You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50

That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses!

piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...
Mindful Design
A high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalilli.link
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
inherit() is now available to play with in Chrome Canary.

Here's some writing I did about it earlier:

How CSS inherit() Could Simplify Design Systems
www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/mak...

How inherit() Can Simplify Border‑Radius for Components
www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/mak...

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November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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looking for CSS animation experts for something fun in December 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
what is going on in that


bsky.app/profile/vale...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
rumours that Horner could replace Andy Cowell at Aston Martin?
a man wearing a green shirt with aramco jcb and peroni on it
Alt: Fernando Alonso 'pulling a face' mouthing 'ooh'
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I think I've fixed cross-posting images (with alt. text) to BlueSky and Mastodon
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I think I've fixed cross-posting images (with alt. text) to BlueSky and Mastodon
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I've just started watching the Las Vegas GP (I wasn't getting up at 4am), but I've just seen the news.
a man in a suit is sitting in the back seat of a car and smiling .
Alt: William defoe in a suit, smiling 'crezily' and beginning to laugh
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
those three fantastic words have been uttered on this miserable day …

"chippy tea tonight"
November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
struggling to get it to send a post with an image to Bluesky (works fine with Mastodon) … in lieu of that I'm tidying up the UI a little bit.

#BuildInPublic #WIP #DevJourney #SideProject
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
thank you for bearing with me as I try and crosspost an image to mastodon and bluesky

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November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
testing it again
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
testing my little 'write only' blueskeet app to see if it cross posts to Mastodon.
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
watching a juvenile sparrow hawk having their lunch in our garden.
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM