Mark Tomlinson
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Mark Tomlinson
@marktomlinson.bsky.social
Web dev. Building tools for better design-development workflows.

There is another world, but it's in this one.

https://loanwords.leaflet.pub/
It's not every day you see someone else get THIS excited about the Design Tokens Specification.

To celebrate, here's a screenshot of some WIP landing page copy I'm working on for sugarcube - a toolkit for building DTCG-token-powered websites.

Actual nice-looking website coming soon 😅
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Writing the documentation for sugarcube has been...a struggle.

Managed to get most of the utility class docs written up this weekend, though.

Just another million topics to cover and I'll be done.
October 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
One of the final features I'm working on before releasing the sugarcube alpha out into the wild is what I'm calling 'mixes'.

You'll probably (hopefully) get it just by looking at it:
September 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Happy with the way the new CLI is coming along.

Instead of overwhelming users with a bajillion prompts, it auto detects and follows the recommended path.

Pass flags like `--skip plugin` or `--styles-dir custom-dir` to take back control etc.
August 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Shadcn's great and all but give me clean markup and design tokens feeding well-structured CSS any day
July 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Design token driven development is here!

Increases the solidity of your frontend foundations by an estimated 240% 😋
July 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Still room for improvement, but almost happy with the level of detail I'm able to give users about validation errors in their design tokens
April 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🚀 A very small peek at something I've been working on.

Much much more to come in the coming weeks. Cannot wait to share!!
April 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Waiting for Mark S to complete Cold Harbor like
March 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
If you're going to choose one domain management tool for all your never-to-be-completed side projects, make it porkbun 😭
January 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM