David Darnes

Hey new followers 👋🏻 My name is Dave and I’m into #DesignSystems, #WebComponents, #CSS, #Frontend, #Lego, #Coffee, and chronic shitposting. Enjoy the ride ☕️

the scientific term for this is “ai jizz” and it does this bc the ai is horny

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

*Screams in vocoder*

2 Fajita Authentication

For anyone that I’ve upset by informing them of “Smack Barm Pea Wet”

THIS COMMON CSS FEATURE TANKS YOUR PERFORMANCE!!1!1! Ok, how was that for a flamebait headline? For real, though, let's talk about `@property` Do you lazy load content to improve performance? Did you know that, if your lazily-loaded CSS includes `@property`, you're causing a full dom restyle?

Please Gonk responsibly

Checked today, and the built-in hidden-until-found of `<details>` also works well with anchor links inside.

@keithamus.social sorry for not recognising you at first! I even mentioned you to @lukewarlow.dev IRL 😂

Oh god, OH GOD

My UK Parliament petition is finally live! 🎉 People experiencing data poverty shouldn’t have to pay for mobile data to access essential government services they’ve already helped fund through taxation. Please sign and share! 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/78...

*brb, renaming primitive design tokens to hunter-gatherer tokens*

flockwork orange

Don’t worry, the Lego Elf Set can’t hurt you The Lego Elf set:

We're only a handful of tickets to making it bigger than last year (which was our biggest year since I can't remember when). BUY BUY BUY

AeroPress has a coffee grinder now. It’s £199. I love my AeroPress, it’s a great *entry level* coffee maker. Does £199 sound entry level? Ever since Tiny bought AeroPress they’ve be steadily cranking up their prices. I’d love to see @jameshoffmann.bsky.social review this alongside his take

Imagine a day in your life where you don’t see an ad

My daughter in my ear at 6:40 this morning: “Can I watch Toy Story 5 on your phone”

“…with letting someone see my cry” 🤖 INITIATING TEAR DROP 1 PROTOCOL

It’s just great, simply great, that not only do we have our time wasted by AI imagery but also the additional time on all imagery thinking “is this AI?”

Bristolians! @webdevconf.com is coming and I'll join this year to discuss art and AI. Creativity cannot be computed, I think many find that obvious. We can all see how dull generated text and art can be. But why is that, what makes art special and what does it need that computers can't do?

Ed No Balls

We very rarely share video content, but this episode was an absolute delight to watch. They're running a hackathon too which is well worth checking out. codetv.dev/series/web-d...

Left-handed people seeing the iPhone Duo UI

JFK 🚘 ✈️ 🚘 LHR

Spending a good 20 minutes in the Apple Store trying to close the iPhone Duo only to realise it’s an iPad

Getting around the Bluesky age restriction by flying to the US 🙃

LHR 🚘 🚍 ✈️ JFK

I am calm, totally calm 🫨

Highly recommend the FC_HEADER_TEXT, delicious

@darn.es

Anyone replaced their Sony XM3 ear pads? If so which replacements did you buy?

God damn it Google (from @jess.darn.es )

GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Bit hot innit

Hyde Park is looking lush, finally a nice summer 😎

The emotional whiplash of enjoying a McDonald’s hash brown and then following it with a McDonald’s coffee ⚰️

huh wonder why people are rebelling against this technology oh well guess we’ll never know

Have you ever wished I could help you with your CSS/design system problems but couldn't find the budget to hire me full-time? Well, I'm available for contract work starting in late August! Get in touch! mike@runtriangle.com

Stumbling into a celebrity from your younger years on social media, enjoying the post, and then ruining it by finding the “Controversy” section on their Wikipedia page 😌

reading a lot of tech media these days is like having to watch two people you already don't like trying to show off who can eat the most dog shit off the ground

If all these servers are taking up so much land should we be calling them Estate Agents?