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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · Jun 5
👀 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 stu@alwaystwisted.com

🙏🖤
A composition of elements from the Monotype Marketing Design System, featuring interactive type specimens, bold typography, and a user-friendly interface. The design adopts a minimalist aesthetic with black and red accents. The caption reads, 'Created the Monotype marketing Design System, developed tools for interactive type specimens, launched the Shopify storefront.' A composition of elements from the Elements Design System homepage, featuring clean layouts, design tokens, and component guidelines. The design utilises a light theme with blue accents. The caption reads, 'Assisted with front-end work across multiple sites, helped create the new Design System documentation site, implemented design tokens.' A composition of elements from the Visual Framework homepage for EMBL, showcasing design system guidelines, component examples, and accessibility features. The design employs a green and white colour scheme. The caption reads, 'Developed the front-end architecture and guidelines for EMBL's new Design System, ensuring scalability and maintainability throughout the project.' A composition of elements from the UCL site-wide search system, highlighting search functionality, filters, and a clean user interface. The design features a modern layout with blue and white tones. The caption reads, 'Created the front-end for a comprehensive site-wide search system, enhancing UX and the existing Design System.'
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bell.bz
The kombucha meme where a woman initially looks like she hates it, but then looks curious, but I've flipped the order, so she looks like she hates it, after looking curious. The first cell (curious) is captioned "I've written a new article" The second cell (hates it) is captioned "Read it on my Substack"
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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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 stu@alwaystwisted.com

🙏🖤
A composition of elements from the Monotype Marketing Design System, featuring interactive type specimens, bold typography, and a user-friendly interface. The design adopts a minimalist aesthetic with black and red accents. The caption reads, 'Created the Monotype marketing Design System, developed tools for interactive type specimens, launched the Shopify storefront.' A composition of elements from the Elements Design System homepage, featuring clean layouts, design tokens, and component guidelines. The design utilises a light theme with blue accents. The caption reads, 'Assisted with front-end work across multiple sites, helped create the new Design System documentation site, implemented design tokens.' A composition of elements from the Visual Framework homepage for EMBL, showcasing design system guidelines, component examples, and accessibility features. The design employs a green and white colour scheme. The caption reads, 'Developed the front-end architecture and guidelines for EMBL's new Design System, ensuring scalability and maintainability throughout the project.' A composition of elements from the UCL site-wide search system, highlighting search functionality, filters, and a clean user interface. The design features a modern layout with blue and white tones. The caption reads, 'Created the front-end for a comprehensive site-wide search system, enhancing UX and the existing Design System.'
June 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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hopefully 'launching' this little side project this week.

- search for a feature to find out about support
- add a calendar reminder
- lists what's "recently available" in the newly/widely available sections for the last week and what's coming up in the next month

any other features I've missed?
Screenshot of the Baseline Countdown web interface displaying information about the 'calc() keywords' CSS feature. The interface shows the feature is newly available since June 6, 2023, with an estimated wide availability date of December 6, 2025. A countdown indicates approximately '3 weeks, 3 days to go' until some milestone. Browser compatibility status is shown with icons for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari, marked as 'NEWLY AVAILABLE' under Baseline 2023. The interface includes options to view the specification and add the estimated availability date to a calendar.
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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After ~28 years I think I’m turning from red to green.
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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jwo.ng
If you’ve wanted to go to #ffconf but couldn’t afford it, I have a ticket spare going.

Much rather it got used. ( my week’s focus got changed. 😞)

Ping me.
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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a near perfect test for my lil' bookmarklet
the word 'glass' gets replaced with 'ass' The absolute UX *drama* of the new tinted (vs. clear) liquid ass preference in the macOS 26.1 System Settings. Why separate from the Reduce Transparency accessibility toggle? Why so prominent in the Appearance section? Why do users need to know about liquid ass at all? Mistakes were made here 😅
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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If you told me in 2021 I’d be rooting for Verstappen to win in 2026 I’d be in disbelief.
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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a mini #StusRoast w/ chicken breast wrapped in bacon today. Whilst watching the calamity of the Brazilian GP.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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davatron5000.bsky.social
Some of y'all know @peruvianidol.com from #designsystems stuff. Mike's doing a 24-hour stream raising money a children's hospital. He's ~$1500 away from his goal. It'd be cool if you could help out and pitch in a few bucks.

www.extra-life.org/participants...
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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the amount of adverts I’ve just scrolled through that are AI-based productivity tools or assistants. I’m sure it’s totally sustainable.
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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do I

a) send it away to get a new battery, storage, bluetooth
b) fix the battery and storage myself and embrace wired earphones
c) keep it as and try to find the only ~1000 songs I'll ever need
sturobson.com Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 5d
Ordered a cable.
blue iPod mini
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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who'd've thought.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Met police’s culture makes racial harm ‘inevitable’, internal review finds
The revew, the first to focus on the racism of the institution as a whole, found a culture and leadership determined to prevent real change
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Ordered a cable.
blue iPod mini
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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has anyone managed to go a full year without hearing Idris Elba attempt an American accent
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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stay on with Todoist "Legacy plan" or pay more for AI features I don't want 🤔
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I think The Grauniad are missing a word, or a comma.
text that reads "in case you're coming our US elections blog"
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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a new Agatha Christie adaptation? With Helena Bonham-Carter?

Yes please!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m750...
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials | Official Teaser | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Apple rumoured to release a A18 Pro chip'd MacBook in 2012

… it'll be 13", not 12"
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table .
Alt: football manager Roy Hodgson starting ti visually get excited as their face starts to smile then then quickly let their head fall in disappointment.
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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whilst waiting for OpenReach to flip the switch so that our house (along with the last 16 on this estate) get full fibre I found the ridiculous speeds I can get w/ Three's 5G home broadband. Very happy.
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Has anyone attended #FFConf in the past as part of a team (or with others from your company)? I'm working on a (short) article, and I'd love to quote some folks for it - i.e. why you came as a team, what you took away, or anything else.

Please @-me or email me - I'd appreciate it.
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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if you rely on baseline to determine the web features you think you can safely use … not long now 'til color-mix could become 'widely available'.
Screenshot of 'Baseline Countdown' web application showing information about the CSS color-mix() function. The interface displays a search field with 'color-mix()' entered and results showing it became newly available on 09-05-2023 and is estimated to be widely available by 09-11-2025. The feature is labeled as 'Baseline 2023' with a 'NEWLY AVAILABLE' badge, and includes browser compatibility indicators for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. Options to add the estimated wide availability date to calendar are provided at the bottom."
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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when Ana shared the codepen for this a few weeks back I was completely wow-ed by it.

(actually reworking my site now and removing subgrid-itis from it and using this technique).

🙏🖤

frontendmasters.com/blog/super-s...
Super Simple Full-Bleed & Breakout Styles
Having a width-limited centered column of content is common and good, but what do you do when you need to break out? It's not hard these days, but it does depend on the situation.
frontendmasters.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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anatudor.bsky.social
I have a new article out!

Super Simple Full-Bleed & Breakout Styles
frontendmasters.com/blog/super-s... - my take on an old problem using modern CSS solutions.

Using a spooky made up Halloween recipe to illustrate concepts.

PS @chriscoyier.net told me to be proud of it 😛

#CSS
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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this should be how you all get your web industry news

🙏🖤
trost.codes 🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 11d
It's the Spookiest episode of the year!

This week's Callback has:

- GitHub's "surprise announcement"
- AI trained on Minion memes
- Vitest stops playing pretend
- And more!

Send it to anyone who does good internet!

youtu.be/Bt_5FP38hOo
Agents are taking over...
YouTube video by Prismic
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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going through ~100 Design Systems links for the @designsysnews.bsky.social newsletter.

Did I mention I'm open to sponsorship? Got a product/event/something Design Systems related and want to reach that niche audience? Let's talk!

Or if you fancy 'buying me a coffee' -

buymeacoffee.com/sturobson
November 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM