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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

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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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friends, if you’ve found yourself using ReliCSS and it’s been useful and helpful … I’m fancying adding a couple of ‘testimonials’ somewhere on the (mini) site.
sturobson.com Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · Jan 4
The dust of decades settles on your keyboard as you push aside lines of vendor prefixes

Your fedora casts shadows over cryptic CSS hacks from another era. "This belongs in a museum" you mutter

ReliCSS: The front-end archaeologist's tool for navigating legacy CSS

www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/

🙏🖤
ReliCSS - Web Interface
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February 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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kevinpowell.co
My new CSS course is now live on @frontendmasters.com! Learn the essentials, including responsive layouts, typography, animations, and more.

Save $10 on your first month: frontendmasters.com/courses/css-... (affiliate link, so it helps support me too 😊)
Learn CSS & Responsive Design Fundamentals
Learn the essentials of typography, responsive grid layout, animations, and form styling. By the end, you'll have the foundation to dive into your next vanilla CSS codebase or use utility-first approa...
frontendmasters.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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smashingconf.com
Almost at 1000 attendees for Meets Design Systems 2026! If you’re thinking, “Should I be attendee #999 or #1000?“, now is the time to register.
No rewards. Pure emotional satisfaction. :-D

Your ticket is free, it’s happening Tomorrow, Feb 11, 2026 (8–11 am PT). 💘
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Smashing Meets — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Meets Design Systems 2026 — February 11, 2026
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're talking about Design Systems in 2026. We'll go into...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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ooh, 'save draft' that's new.
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Age verification.

Only Smarties have the answer!
benbrignell.com Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 9h
Age verification.

Stay out of the black and into the red, nothing in this game for two in a bed.
john-self.bsky.social John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 9h
Age verification.

Way down deep in the middle of the Congo,
A hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango…
February 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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a spot of lunch and the first episode of Mackenzie Crooks new comedy - Small Prophets.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Small Prophets, Series 1, Episode 1
A mystical recipe promises answers to the whereabouts of Michael’s missing girlfriend.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Reposted by Stuart Robson
polypane.app
Polypane 28 is here!

This first release of 2026 comes with plenty of improvements to Projects, the new Environments feature prevents you from confusing production for localhost, the Elements panel is faster and more powerful than ever, and it now runs on Chromium 146.

polypane.app/blog/polypan...
Polypane 28: Project improvements, Elements panel updates and Chromium 146 | Polypane
The first release of 2026 comes with plenty of improvements to Projects, the new Environments feature prevents you from confusing production for localhost, the…
polypane.app
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Reposted by Stuart Robson
clagnut.com
What’s new in web typography?

This is a question I’ll be answering at this year’s webdayout.com

I'll cover the paved cowpaths and the shiny things that bring expressiveness, fine detail, responsiveness, consistency and efficiency to your work.

Use JOIN_RICH to get 10% off.

#typography #css
A mock-up of my Web Day Out lanyard – use JOIN_RICH for 10% off.
February 10, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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sindresorhus.com
I'm looking for some more testers to test the next major version of Gifski, my video to animated GIF converter app.

testflight.apple.com/join/iCyHNNIA

*Requires macOS 26
Join the Gifski beta
Using TestFlight is a great way to help developers test beta versions of their apps.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Balding gets everywhere.
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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I always forget what properties are available now so I've written a quick post to put them all in one place

Underlining links with CSS

www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/und...

#FrontEnd #CSS #WebDev #WebDesign
Underlining Links With CSS
A practical guide to styling link underlines with modern CSS text-decoration properties. Perfect for bookmarking when you need a quick reference!
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February 9, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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cooking up the next Design Tokens Workflow article on the blog right now
a portion of my website, always twisted. A page heading of - using notion with style dictionary for design tokens management = and a date of 9th of February 2026
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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now that little article is out of my worry hole and into the wild I'm continuing the 'website-ification' of my Design Tokens links repo, whilst playing this weekends @intodesignsystems.bsky.social hackathon show-and-tell in the background.

www.youtube.com/live/hOUN5cr...
Into Design Systems Online Hackathon
YouTube video by Into Design Systems
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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this government, making Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf look competent.
February 9, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Reposted by Stuart Robson
kitwhitfield.bsky.social
Mornington Crescent: a rant.

Or: how a goofy word game about train stations is the key to how devout causes can ruin people's ability to have a conversation.

Stand clear of the closing doors, let's begin.

1/18
White-tiled wall with a London Underground sign, a blue centre bar in a red circle. The centre bar reads 'MORNINGTON CRESCENT'. Source: https://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2014/12/30/mornington-crescent-still-peculiar
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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I always forget what properties are available now so I've written a quick post to put them all in one place

Underlining links with CSS

www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/und...

#FrontEnd #CSS #WebDev #WebDesign
Underlining Links With CSS
A practical guide to styling link underlines with modern CSS text-decoration properties. Perfect for bookmarking when you need a quick reference!
www.alwaystwisted.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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did you know Ghost has handy migration documentation to help you get off substack

docs.ghost.org/migration/su...
Migrating from Substack - Ghost Developer Docs
Migrate from Substack and import your content to Ghost with this guide
docs.ghost.org
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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"LLMs do not think. So if we're not thinking and they're not thinking that means nobody is thinking"
February 9, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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anyways … this weeks soundtrack will mostly be going through this

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time
The 50 greatest hair metal albums of all time, including Poison, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, Warrant and more.
www.rollingstone.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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anyone else always listen out the tape unpause in Queens One Vision?
February 9, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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loving @dbushell.com code bandit slot machine on their refreshed website … what AI features could you get?

I got - a derivative design, malware installed, and a merge conflict - all in one go.

🙏🖤
February 9, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Week of February 8, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-2-8
February 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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I never noticed this either.
A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Reposted by Stuart Robson
marchbox.com
Not proud that I haven’t written any articles for over 2 years or done much drawing on my website. But I finally refactored the monorail navigation from JavaScript-based to use #css View Transition. Also remove a custom element for rendering the trees in the […]

[Original post on marchbox.com]
February 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM