Sofia Simanke
@smnk.me
UX/UI designer from Brazil. Experience working in digital transformation projects in the public sector.
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LET’S POP SOME BOTTLES 🍾
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June 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
LET’S POP SOME BOTTLES 🍾
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If you're a dev, you know about the input element and all of it's types, but do you know about the output element?
html-css-tip-of-the-week.netlify.app/tip/output/
html-css-tip-of-the-week.netlify.app/tip/output/
The <output> element
Display calculation results and user interaction outcomes with semantic HTML using the output element.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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220+ Illustrations for Your Design Systems
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220+ Illustrations for Your Design Systems
SassUI offers a collection of free illustrations tailored for design systems and documentation. High-quality, customisable visuals designed to enhance your projects
illustrations.saas-ui.dev
#DesignSystems
June 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
✨ Design Systems News
220+ Illustrations for Your Design Systems
SassUI offers a collection of free illustrations tailored for design systems and documentation. High-quality, customisable visuals designed to enhance your projects
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#DesignSystems
220+ Illustrations for Your Design Systems
SassUI offers a collection of free illustrations tailored for design systems and documentation. High-quality, customisable visuals designed to enhance your projects
illustrations.saas-ui.dev
#DesignSystems
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The Guardian have changed the headline for the *third time* today.
June 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Guardian have changed the headline for the *third time* today.
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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
June 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
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Major announcement, I've "trained" a "Lot of Language Model" in #CSS, so you no longer have to use confusing color syntax. Just describe* the color you want in plain language!** Invisible, conversational interface!***
codepen.io/miriamsuzann...
codepen.io/miriamsuzann...
--miaGPT generative colors in CSS
...
codepen.io
June 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Major announcement, I've "trained" a "Lot of Language Model" in #CSS, so you no longer have to use confusing color syntax. Just describe* the color you want in plain language!** Invisible, conversational interface!***
codepen.io/miriamsuzann...
codepen.io/miriamsuzann...
seeing this is just reminding me of how much i love Ed Mort
I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes
June 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
seeing this is just reminding me of how much i love Ed Mort
i have never been more excited for something in my life
Styling form controls will be SO MUCH easier in the (hopefully not so far) future. @ntim.bsky.social demonstrates examples from the CSS Form Control Styling Level 1 specification draft (www.w3.org/TR/css-forms...) #cssday
June 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
i have never been more excited for something in my life
one day i’m going to fully blur the lines between “fun account” and “serious account” and start posting about nogizaka on here. i know myself.
should just follow @ca.rter.io’s example and have no fear of going full wota under my full legal name.
should just follow @ca.rter.io’s example and have no fear of going full wota under my full legal name.
June 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
one day i’m going to fully blur the lines between “fun account” and “serious account” and start posting about nogizaka on here. i know myself.
should just follow @ca.rter.io’s example and have no fear of going full wota under my full legal name.
should just follow @ca.rter.io’s example and have no fear of going full wota under my full legal name.
my very small dog is very upset about not being fed today. he does not understand the concept of fasting before a medical exam.
June 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
my very small dog is very upset about not being fed today. he does not understand the concept of fasting before a medical exam.
the fact that there’s open source code with explicitly copyleft licenses being used to train AI coding tools used to write proprietary code for huge corporations hurts my heart some place deep 🫠
I am an AI/LLM skeptic who also believes "information wants to be free". So while I find the IP angle often deployed others on my side of the debate a bit frustrating, AI boosters taking claim of the information freedom mantle is *at least* as incoherent. You really think these companies are anti IP
June 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
the fact that there’s open source code with explicitly copyleft licenses being used to train AI coding tools used to write proprietary code for huge corporations hurts my heart some place deep 🫠
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June 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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In this Pride Month, let us remember that #FunctionalProgramming has the privilege and honour to share our beloved λ with the Lesbian community. Let's go Lesbians!
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
In this Pride Month, let us remember that #FunctionalProgramming has the privilege and honour to share our beloved λ with the Lesbian community. Let's go Lesbians!
yikes…. extremely disappointed to see this on flyio
You know it’s a grift because the hard sell isn’t working, so going after people on a personal level is the next move fly.io/blog/youre-a...
If AI/LLMs were actually good, this sort of article would never show up.
The URL of this “article” is a good tell, too.
If AI/LLMs were actually good, this sort of article would never show up.
The URL of this “article” is a good tell, too.
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
fly.io
June 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
yikes…. extremely disappointed to see this on flyio
someone should let the brazilian mail service know that create-react-app has been deprecated
June 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
someone should let the brazilian mail service know that create-react-app has been deprecated
i don’t even have a mac mini… but i’m obsessed with this…
June 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
i don’t even have a mac mini… but i’m obsessed with this…
for people not familiar with Os Saltimbancos, it’s the Brazilian version of the Italian musical I Musicanti; it’s based in the tale of the Bremen musicians, turned into a communist allegory. Chico Buarque sneaked it into Brazil during the very anti-communist military dictatorship. it’s amazing.
i was like – is it botões or borbotões? why do i think it’s borbotões? is that even a word, what does it mean?
i’ve finally identified the source of my confusion. the first time i ever heard this expression was in the children’s musical Os Saltimbancos, which takes poetic license to say “borbotões”
i’ve finally identified the source of my confusion. the first time i ever heard this expression was in the children’s musical Os Saltimbancos, which takes poetic license to say “borbotões”
June 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
for people not familiar with Os Saltimbancos, it’s the Brazilian version of the Italian musical I Musicanti; it’s based in the tale of the Bremen musicians, turned into a communist allegory. Chico Buarque sneaked it into Brazil during the very anti-communist military dictatorship. it’s amazing.
there’s a portuguese expression, “pensando com meus botões”, literally “thinking with my buttons”, for when you’re introspecting / pondering things on your own
i never used it, bc every time i thought of using it, my brain wanted to say “borbotões” instead of “botões”, and made me very confused
i never used it, bc every time i thought of using it, my brain wanted to say “borbotões” instead of “botões”, and made me very confused
June 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
there’s a portuguese expression, “pensando com meus botões”, literally “thinking with my buttons”, for when you’re introspecting / pondering things on your own
i never used it, bc every time i thought of using it, my brain wanted to say “borbotões” instead of “botões”, and made me very confused
i never used it, bc every time i thought of using it, my brain wanted to say “borbotões” instead of “botões”, and made me very confused
thinking about WCAG Guideline 3.1 – Readable... in 3.1.3
Unusual Words, one of the sufficient techniques is "linking to definitions". would having a unusual term's definition appear on hover in a tooltip-style, rather than linking away to a definition, be "un-semantic"?
Unusual Words, one of the sufficient techniques is "linking to definitions". would having a unusual term's definition appear on hover in a tooltip-style, rather than linking away to a definition, be "un-semantic"?
June 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
thinking about WCAG Guideline 3.1 – Readable... in 3.1.3
Unusual Words, one of the sufficient techniques is "linking to definitions". would having a unusual term's definition appear on hover in a tooltip-style, rather than linking away to a definition, be "un-semantic"?
Unusual Words, one of the sufficient techniques is "linking to definitions". would having a unusual term's definition appear on hover in a tooltip-style, rather than linking away to a definition, be "un-semantic"?
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June 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
sometimes, it's the little things that bring you joy
June 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
sometimes, it's the little things that bring you joy
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Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see the investors.
May 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see the investors.
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Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices.
What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen
Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
robbowen.digital
June 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices.
What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
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Meet Nigel 💕
Found wandering behind an apartment building, this baby opossum was rescued by @cwcwildlife, who worked with wildlife officials to bring him to the zoo.
Found wandering behind an apartment building, this baby opossum was rescued by @cwcwildlife, who worked with wildlife officials to bring him to the zoo.
May 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Meet Nigel 💕
Found wandering behind an apartment building, this baby opossum was rescued by @cwcwildlife, who worked with wildlife officials to bring him to the zoo.
Found wandering behind an apartment building, this baby opossum was rescued by @cwcwildlife, who worked with wildlife officials to bring him to the zoo.