Donnie D'Amato

And @geoffgraham.me is scheduled to come on wireframe.ds.house to talk all about it tomorrow!

And now that I don't have any small side projects, you get not one, but TWO blog posts this week! blog.damato.design/posts/dogpoi...

i'm at @atproto.nyc October Edition! #atprotonyc · 🎟️ wojx9ydz 🎟️

Short and sweet post about a trick to name your primitive tokens. blog.damato.design/posts/tiers-...

Oh no, I have a redesign idea for my blog. And I just finished my side project too... Must. Have. Discipline...

DSDS 0.22.0 coming in hot. Most of this update is about addition by subtraction. Removed unneeded properties and enum values plus some quality of life improvements like setting a source root. Check it out: designsystemdocspec.org

If you've wondered why I haven't written a new blog post in about a month. It's because of this. 👇 typography.damato.design I've written a few posts about web typography in the past year, and even a talk in January. I've decided all of it probably needs a single place. So, this is the place.

I'm not worried about AI taking my job, I'm worried about @mayor.nyc.gov. His interface storytelling is top-notch. #ux www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyGMQL2G/

This trailer has no right being this good. Also, the most epic rearrangement of Stardust Speedway in the universe. 🎼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg33... (this is a Sonic appreciation account now)

getartcraft.com Adobe Creative Suite clone!? Here's a video that goes through some of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFB7...

What if there was a Web Components conference?? @stuffbreaker.bsky.social and I are teaming up to get a little more serious about the idea of getting one together. We want to gather data on if there is interest in the community forms.gle/ZGqtYGj7V6q8... Please fill out and share to anyone!

Timeline cleanse. Handcrafted statue of Sonic the Hedgehog for the 35th anniversary. Up for auction later this month. Video of the process: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzCJ...

Coming this November, to a Civic Hall near Union Square NYC. In a world where AI claims to do it all, what are designers left to do? And fun fact, I don't mention AI once in the talk. Call it a palette cleanse. www.evolvedigital.com

I had a short but special show today just before hitting 10k. www.youtube.com/live/L3jS-RO... Hope it only gets better from here. 🙏

If you render full content in your RSS using Astro, this is what is probably under the hood. How I use it: blog.damato.design/posts/astro-...

Rename DESIGN.md to STYLEGUIDE.md and I promise I'll stop complaining.

Since I have an old Rabbit R1, I wanted to try and turn it into a smartphone. It runs Android and has a sim slot after all. Anyway, ended up bricking it so that was fun. All the sketchy github releases don't make it worth the trouble.

Apparently, my personal account for Twitch has been livestreaming 0 data for about 16 hours. I know exactly know it has happened but I'm too lazy to stop it from the source. If this was YouTube I could stop the stream easily from the web interface, but for some reason Twitch doesn't let you. 🤷

Here's me starting trouble with @kevinpowell.co like I promised. ❤️ blog.damato.design/posts/fluid-...

Apparently, Firefox Nightly since v155 includes CSS typed arithmetic so we can finally divide by unit numbers in calc(). bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi... Put it in there already!

A company called Iterable is "testing" their ATS by having candidates fill out for a position that doesn't exist. www.reddit.com/r/recruiting...

Yesterday on Wireframe LIVE, @natebaldwin.bsky.social came on the show to talk about data in design. We chatted about our thoughts on the scalability problem of curating modes that are influenced by multiple dimensions. ☝️ If that made sense to you then watch below 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfi_...

Is there really no way to get back to the legacy @codepen.io behavior now? The settings are also all over the place so I can't find anything. Luckily, I'm able to fork old pens to get the editor back to how it used to be.

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

Hey, Don't use "because accessibility" as your scapegoat. If it's for accessibility explain how. Describe the kind of person it was designed for and what need it is addressing. Thanks.

Yesterday @pjonori.com came on Wireframe LIVE. While we did speak about his work behind the new Design Systems Documentation Specification, we also touched upon areas in our creative work that we don't cross when using AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqTs...

Cool video about making a podcast website using @11ty.dev and RSS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=53kc... cc: @zachleat.com

I launched a product by accident, all because of a conversation I had with a coworker. rightbadcode.com/spotcheck/ #Accessibility #A11y #Product

They see me rollin'. They hatin'

This is pretty cool. I suspect you'd still need to wrap it, so it isn't visible to assistive technology because it'll read like junk. But interesting if you need a quick chart. Might be good for presentations. franktisellano.github.io/datatype/

Hey folks, I'll be speaking at EvolveDigital this November in NYC. Here's the link to the conference. Hope to see you there! www.evolvedigital.com/evolvedigita...

We need something like this for things which AREN'T in the standards process. Right now, the whole process is unclear about how stuff actually gets included. Case in point, this thing has been untouched for over a year with no instruction on how to move forward. github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Special place in my heart for bb.

Ever have an established primary button, only to have someone come along and say they need a button that is even more important? blog.damato.design/posts/superp...

If you need an empathetic engineering manager who knows his way around the entire stack, look no further.

"Donnie, didn't you just redesign your site last month?" Yes, but that part of the work was focused on fixing the IA. I kept the design minimal knowing that I'd come back to it later. Well, later was last weekend and it's now really fancy. 💅 donnie.damato.design

John Oliver's latest show speaks about deceptive patterns in cancelling subscriptions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wko-...

Great news! The CSS sibling-count() and sibling-index() functions are now Baseline Newly Available! I.e implemented in all major browsers.

here at @atproto.nyc community day 2026 [ioxp5dlc] #atprotonyc

I asked 100 devs what their favorite framework was, and had @nerdy.dev try and guess the top four answers.

@kevinpowell.co @donnie.damato.design Livestream is fire!

Updated the design for the website of Wireframe with help from diffui.ai. What do you think? wireframe.ds.house

AI is a drug. There's abuse, addiction, and withdrawals. There's also benefits and breakthroughs. It's about using it responsibly. blog.damato.design/posts/ai-high

Yep, I did it again. And I'm not done. Instead of it feeling like a dumping ground of my stuff, the website has improved organization on what I offer and where my interests are. Take a look and let me know what you think.

blog.damato.design/posts/ai-high/