Dave House
iknowdavehouse.bsky.social
Dave House
@iknowdavehouse.bsky.social
Design Systems | Aircooled VWs | Made a few records you don’t have

https://www.das.house
Got a break between the days downpour for an autumnal cruise in the ‘62.
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
@guysegal.com delivered a wonderfully poignant talk on recognising the root cause of team frustration, safety and ultimately recognising being in a design system team can feel like an emotional merry go round
October 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It’s not been the best year and it was my birthday last week so…

I now own a 1962 bug in beryl green with the best patina ever.

Spent most of its life in Washington state and has bags of history.
August 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I’ve had this Design Systems meme in my head for quite a long time.
August 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I am currently in this state. Doing some small fixes to the channels.

I have certainly thought about driving the pan if I can hook up the wiring and fuel. Column is still in the shell, we trying to avoid removing it.
July 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New specs day!
June 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For those of you that are unaware of my previous career as an unpopular musician. I put some stuff I found in the loft on my Bandcamp davehouse.bandcamp.com/merch

Including this 2004 esque shirt.
May 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Ok @penpot.app got me with these 4 slides.
May 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Found this artefact in my flower bed. What do you reckon it was used for? Apart from hand of the king…
May 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Easter rig!
April 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Been working on my personal website in the middle of the night for a few days (when else?!).

Very much WIP but coming together - Currently struggling with walking the line between CV / non-existent portfolio and a place to keep blogs (still medium links for now but determined to self publish)
March 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
What is this crossover…
March 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
You can actually test it on mobile too (here is Orion browser that can run local extensions)
March 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Made a little browser extension to translate numbers into words when you toggle a button. I've been thinking about it since listening to @accessiblenumbers.bsky.social Accessible Numbers podcast.

I haven't quite cracked big numbers yet but just wondering if this would actually be useful?
March 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Also for the 2 of you that are interested. I have pretty much completed my beetle chassis. And for those that were at my Converge talk… look a headless component.
March 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In a break from the world going down the pan, I did win this absolutely giant Axolotl toy at the bowling alley. Best day of my daughter’s life I think.
March 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Fintech beginning with M has a few own goals though, increase contrast makes some elements brighter but actually reduces text contrast on things like buttons, which I seem to remember fail contrast anyway.
February 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Excellent, well the actual blog is a great test case in itself
February 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I am reframing iOS VoiceOver seemingly doing everything differently as just punk.

#A11y
February 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Listened to @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social and immediately purchased this super legit tape measure.
January 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Screen recording
January 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Here’s an example - the h1 on the Salesforce website is read out in two parts because of the graphic treatment. www.salesforce.com/uk/
January 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Had to take the old Westy out for a lunch time de-stress. I don’t know why helps more than most things, but it does.
January 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I got obsessed with it for a while and ended up with this lovely first edition. I didn’t even try and watch the series.
January 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The new “hide distracting items” on iOS Safari is awesome. User customisation of pretty much anything is one of the reasons I love the web!
December 6, 2024 at 4:52 PM