Alberto Calvo

I’ve been working on something quietly for a while. Today it steps into the open. It’s called Faro, a space where I’m sharing ideas that shaped my work across brand, design, content, engineering, and systems thinking.

I left X *because* I had a large following. People told me I was the reason they were staying on there, and I didn’t want to be responsible for 100k+ people sticking around for abuse, CSAM, and Nazis. Simple as that

Introducing the Accessible Components Library! Common components with accessibility requirements, test scenarios, and automated tests. • Free to use and adapt • Human-readable tests in Gherkin • Mapped to WCAG 2.2, levels A to AAA Dig in! #Accessibility #OpenSource #WCAG #AccessibleComponents

Wrote about the tech guys chickening out and rejoining X, the distribution of power on social media, and why your voice matters so much jonas.do/writing/2026...

X is bad, though: https://lexontech.org/x-is-bad-though

Just want to emphasize: this is entirely built with CSS scroll snapping and view timelines – no JS gesture handling or animations. This means we get high frame rate fluid momentum and elastic physics matching the platform for free. It feels native because it really is – modern CSS is pretty amazing.

Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was hospitalized after being evicted from her home two weeks ago. She became a symbol and has managed to mobilize thousands of people in the streets of all over Spain against real estate speculation and for the right to decent housing. Descansa en paz 💔

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Young people can't afford rent. They can't afford homes. They were promised a future while the richest among us hoard every last resource. Gen z is rising up globally to protest inequality!

What a mystery! No one could guess the cause.

This sounds like any other CEO in the industry. What’s the point of trashing what made this company special? I don’t want more products, but *better* products. I really doubt we’ll get any of that out of this.

The damage Microsoft Word and Powerpoint and all its copycats caused for the ability of the majority of people to structure a document and data is unbelievable. 🫠 can we restart and teach everybody basic html or even markdown.

This is a great example of meaningful use of technology. Good job, @elhattab.com!

I really hope this technique doesn’t become popular, but I’m already seeing it in some places. Tried the site in a dark environment and dark mode and now my eyes hurt 😔

"Why am I so sad all the time?" I ask myself as I stare at my little handheld sadness machine and click on all the stupid sad things that will definitely make me sad

My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

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Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.

v1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.

After having some dragging issues with my Logitech MX Master 3S, I decided to upgrade to a MX Master 4M. It only lasted 3 years, while the 2S lasted 6, and it's still working fine, no issues. Just my old tradition of switching mice with every new job, which I just broke 😅

🌿 A new version of the Web Sustainability Guidelines is out! www.w3.org/TR/web-susta... Updates include: - Impact Measurement + Impact API - Lots of small tweaks following peer review - Improved tone of voice and readability, new introduction Changelog: github.com/w3c/sustaina...

The design system documentation spec project is now a proposed W3C community group. www.w3.org/community/bl... Big thanks to Cassondra Roberts for the suggestion.

Someone had to say it. The idea of always sprinting is already anxiety-triggering and a recipe for team dissatisfaction. The fact that every cycle only lasts two weeks doesn’t give people enough time to either think or execute with quality. And don’t get me started with the time lost in meetings.

With layoffs at Xbox, sources indicate accessibility efforts have also been affected. What was once a champion of accessibility is now a shell of its former self, unsure if accessibility even has a place at the new Xbox. Read my first report for @aftermath.site here: aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs...

I never quite understood some designers’ obsession with confetti 😅

Principal/Staff level designer - work expectations: more talking/writing, less moving pixels. - portfolio expectations: LESS words, MOAR pictures!! exhausting non sequitur.

I’ve seen this up close. Leadership vacuums can hamstring even the most capable design teams. Look for leaders that know what you do, and how to create the conditions for design diligence and content craft to flourish.

If you recognize these icons, it’s probably time to schedule your routine back exam.

Rise and grind

I’ve been incredibly lucky in my career to have worked with amazing people who have helped me grow as a professional. @infotexture.net has been one of them. Grateful for every minute. So long, my friend! You’ll be dearly missed 🫶

“By popular demand!” The Shape of Apps: an essay about app icons, “Squircle Jail,” and where we go from here. parakeet.co/blog/the-sha...

RIP, Readmill 🥲❤️‍🩹

Detaching our work from our identity is probably the best advice we can get nowadays. It’s incredibly hard to do it, though, at least for me, but I’m working on it.

Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI

I was taking a look at the Sketch website for the first time in a while, and I love seeing how some of the parts that I put the most love into have evolved, preserving both their essence and all those little details that are barely noticeable, but that together make a difference. Nostalgia attack 💎

I’m in

🧩 New open-source library: Component Anatomy Interactive anatomy docs for design systems. Get two-way hover sync between the rendered component and its docs. Framework-agnostic core, plus @astro.build & @storybook.js.org integrations. github.com/julien-deram...

Sad truth: we are making the web accessible for AIs, not for people. Some sites now offer a text version for LLMs, but still skip real accessibility needs like proper heading structure, landmarks that screen reader users need.

Less is more, more or less. AI makes it easier than ever to add more, and faster. It’s tempting. But we might end up building things that don’t need to be built quantity over quality. Clarity will be hard to achieve. It doesn’t happen by accident.

The Bear final season’s soundtrack is particularly good. Almost hypnotic. I love it.

This is a short film about A/B testing, algorithmic optimization, and the small act of ignoring both. About what it means to make something by hand in a world that can tell you, with a number, exactly what would have worked better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Frn...

✏️ AI and greener choices hidde.blog/ai-greener-c... Full write-up of my first AI + sustainability talk, that I gave yesterday at the AI & Government conference.

Fuck Peter Thiel

Who else has already dug into random() in CSS? (besides @alvaromontoro.com) The fact that what's specified and what's supported are still in flux (or dare I say.. random) is part of what makes it so fun when things do work as expected. polypane.app/blog/experim...