Alasdair Mcleay
@penx.bsky.social
UI consultant and architect. Design systems, React.
Remix, Astro, Radix fanboi.
Prev AKQA, IBM, Speechmatics. Created govuk-react 2017
Brighton, UK
Remix, Astro, Radix fanboi.
Prev AKQA, IBM, Speechmatics. Created govuk-react 2017
Brighton, UK
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I want you, a tech-literate person, to internalize one deep fact: Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe.
In reality, Apple is (and always was) Facebook's chauffeur; holding its coat while it surveilled everyone.
How to be sure? IABs:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-brow…
In reality, Apple is (and always was) Facebook's chauffeur; holding its coat while it surveilled everyone.
How to be sure? IABs:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-brow…
August 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I want you, a tech-literate person, to internalize one deep fact: Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe.
In reality, Apple is (and always was) Facebook's chauffeur; holding its coat while it surveilled everyone.
How to be sure? IABs:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-brow…
In reality, Apple is (and always was) Facebook's chauffeur; holding its coat while it surveilled everyone.
How to be sure? IABs:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-brow…
@threepointone.bsky.social @jevakallio.dev I seem to remember you mentioning a CSS talk that one of you had done (when we were chatting in Farringdon a year or so back), along the lines if "CSS lies to you" I think. Ring any bells, or know if it was recorded?
May 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
@threepointone.bsky.social @jevakallio.dev I seem to remember you mentioning a CSS talk that one of you had done (when we were chatting in Farringdon a year or so back), along the lines if "CSS lies to you" I think. Ring any bells, or know if it was recorded?
I spoke about Design System APIs in React at Remix London last night, my first presentation in 6 years. With the other speakers being @kentcdodds.com and @chatsidhartha.bsky.social artha.bsky.social there was a bit of pressure... Thanks to @edmundhung.bsky.social and @catchpowle.com for organising
April 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I spoke about Design System APIs in React at Remix London last night, my first presentation in 6 years. With the other speakers being @kentcdodds.com and @chatsidhartha.bsky.social artha.bsky.social there was a bit of pressure... Thanks to @edmundhung.bsky.social and @catchpowle.com for organising
Anyone remember if Styled Components was the first open source React Library to have an `as` prop in its API, or was there something before this (specifically named "as" and with the same polymorphic behaviour)? @kitten.sh
April 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Anyone remember if Styled Components was the first open source React Library to have an `as` prop in its API, or was there something before this (specifically named "as" and with the same polymorphic behaviour)? @kitten.sh
@nickyt.online 👋 great chatting tonight
April 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
@nickyt.online 👋 great chatting tonight
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There is absolutely no world in which this is a "setting"
What ontological universe is Apple living in? If only we had some existing design pattern like "notifications" or "banners" to show users what's new??
What ontological universe is Apple living in? If only we had some existing design pattern like "notifications" or "banners" to show users what's new??
March 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
There is absolutely no world in which this is a "setting"
What ontological universe is Apple living in? If only we had some existing design pattern like "notifications" or "banners" to show users what's new??
What ontological universe is Apple living in? If only we had some existing design pattern like "notifications" or "banners" to show users what's new??
@edmundhung.bsky.social here’s the code I wrote for the conform/radix integration. It’s in a collapsed section at the top. Couldn’t find it earlier as I was looking in the conform repo but I’d posted it in the radix themes repo github.com/radix-ui/the...
Using Radix Themes (or Primitives) with Conform · radix-ui themes · Discussion #380
I've been using Conform recently, I initially noticed it has been used by @kentcdodds in Epic Stack, which already has a lot of great choices for a tech stack including Radix, so gave it a go and h...
github.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
@edmundhung.bsky.social here’s the code I wrote for the conform/radix integration. It’s in a collapsed section at the top. Couldn’t find it earlier as I was looking in the conform repo but I’d posted it in the radix themes repo github.com/radix-ui/the...
Excellent talks by @edmundhung.bsky.social on React forms/Conform and James Opstad on Cloudflare Vite at the Remix London meetup tonight.
Thanks @catchpowle.com for organising!
Thanks @catchpowle.com for organising!
March 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Excellent talks by @edmundhung.bsky.social on React forms/Conform and James Opstad on Cloudflare Vite at the Remix London meetup tonight.
Thanks @catchpowle.com for organising!
Thanks @catchpowle.com for organising!
I'm looking for a new UI or full stack developer contract.
- 20+ years web development experience.
- 9 years with React.
- Comfortable with Remix, Next.js, TypeScript, node, React Native.
- 20+ years web development experience.
- 9 years with React.
- Comfortable with Remix, Next.js, TypeScript, node, React Native.
March 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I'm looking for a new UI or full stack developer contract.
- 20+ years web development experience.
- 9 years with React.
- Comfortable with Remix, Next.js, TypeScript, node, React Native.
- 20+ years web development experience.
- 9 years with React.
- Comfortable with Remix, Next.js, TypeScript, node, React Native.
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I'll be free for a new contract from next week. I've just finished a contract as tech architect of a multi brand design system for a client with 100+ well known brands. Ideally looking for something design systems related or developer on an application/portal build.
January 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'll be free for a new contract from next week. I've just finished a contract as tech architect of a multi brand design system for a client with 100+ well known brands. Ideally looking for something design systems related or developer on an application/portal build.
I'll be free for a new contract from next week. I've just finished a contract as tech architect of a multi brand design system for a client with 100+ well known brands. Ideally looking for something design systems related or developer on an application/portal build.
January 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'll be free for a new contract from next week. I've just finished a contract as tech architect of a multi brand design system for a client with 100+ well known brands. Ideally looking for something design systems related or developer on an application/portal build.
David Lynch on iPhone
YouTube video by Brittney Gilbert
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January 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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I was fortunate enough to meet David Lynch in 2007. He sat on an antlered throne, in a room off Oxford Street, and talked transcendental meditation while Donovan strummed a guitar next to him. Then he drank from a bowl of black coffee.
A truly joyful experience.
A truly joyful experience.
January 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I was fortunate enough to meet David Lynch in 2007. He sat on an antlered throne, in a room off Oxford Street, and talked transcendental meditation while Donovan strummed a guitar next to him. Then he drank from a bowl of black coffee.
A truly joyful experience.
A truly joyful experience.
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Post-meditation.
January 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Post-meditation.
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@ghengeveld.bsky.social @shilman.net 👋
Looking forward to trying out Storybook Test.
Am I able to get some kind of test report output such as a JUnit XML file? Looking for how I could integrate it with a reporting tool like Allure allurereport.org
Looking forward to trying out Storybook Test.
Am I able to get some kind of test report output such as a JUnit XML file? Looking for how I could integrate it with a reporting tool like Allure allurereport.org
Allure Report — Open-source HTML test automation report tool
Open-source HTML automation test reporting tool for Pytest, Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Webdriver.io, Cucumber, C#, Android, IOS and more
allurereport.org
November 27, 2024 at 6:20 PM
@ghengeveld.bsky.social @shilman.net 👋
Looking forward to trying out Storybook Test.
Am I able to get some kind of test report output such as a JUnit XML file? Looking for how I could integrate it with a reporting tool like Allure allurereport.org
Looking forward to trying out Storybook Test.
Am I able to get some kind of test report output such as a JUnit XML file? Looking for how I could integrate it with a reporting tool like Allure allurereport.org
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Not to be overly dramatic or anything, but this has changed my life.
Capture node screenshot in Chrome DevTools is such a time saver. Especially when creating screenshots for an article.
No more dragging handles back and forth forever because you can never get it right and you're always still off by a pixel or two.
Right click node & find it in dropdown.
#DevTools
No more dragging handles back and forth forever because you can never get it right and you're always still off by a pixel or two.
Right click node & find it in dropdown.
#DevTools
November 19, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Not to be overly dramatic or anything, but this has changed my life.
Has Anyone looked in to implementing the design tokens aliases/references spec with CSS custom properties (variables)?
tr.designtokens.org/format/#alia...
tr.designtokens.org/format/#alia...
Design Tokens Format Module
This document describes the technical specification for a file format to
exchange design tokens between different tools.
tr.designtokens.org
November 20, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Has Anyone looked in to implementing the design tokens aliases/references spec with CSS custom properties (variables)?
tr.designtokens.org/format/#alia...
tr.designtokens.org/format/#alia...
Looking for a “12 most problematic design system components, you won’t believe number 3” article.
Can anyone recommend one?
Tabs, tooltips, modals, carousels, accordions, scroll area kind of thing.
Can anyone recommend one?
Tabs, tooltips, modals, carousels, accordions, scroll area kind of thing.
November 13, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Looking for a “12 most problematic design system components, you won’t believe number 3” article.
Can anyone recommend one?
Tabs, tooltips, modals, carousels, accordions, scroll area kind of thing.
Can anyone recommend one?
Tabs, tooltips, modals, carousels, accordions, scroll area kind of thing.
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People aren’t going to remember me for CSS Modules. They’re gonna remember me because of this.
November 8, 2024 at 9:18 PM
People aren’t going to remember me for CSS Modules. They’re gonna remember me because of this.
November 9, 2024 at 3:26 AM
