Jason Pamental

Jason Pamental

@jpamental.bsky.social

Principal Designer @Chewy. Typographer, cyclist, technologist, speaker, writer, irrepressibly curious about almost everything. Walker of collies. https://rwt.io

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It’s not the coffee that’s bitter, that’s just the taste of your burnt expectations and crumbled dreams. Of a good cup of coffee. #conftrekking again

Not so much a hot take as an ‘observation of the blindingly obvious’ but an AI company concerned about the trustworthiness of its models’ output perhaps should have rethought naming its latest release ‘Fable’. Just sayin

Goodbye is too hard a word dad, so I’ll just say fare-thee-well . (Thinking about you dad when that Dillon song you played came on just now. Taking that as a sign of a good day ❤️)

Metaphysical musings, neverending headwinds, and a gorgeous day out for an age-double birthday ride / #FondoOfTheMonthClub N°100 in a row. Grateful that Goldberg was game to come along for the occasion. Just ride. #cycling #roadcycling #strava #fondo 183km/1161m/7:13

The work is important. Doing good work is important. But I’m learning that the work rarely, if ever, speaks for itself. I am still learning how much I have to speak for the work in order for its value to be recognized. #TechCoMusings

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~7 years ago I started curating a list of Design Tokens resources on GitHub… today I launch something better. An updated, tagged collection of 292+ articles on design tokens. www.alwaystwisted.com/projects/dtm... more links/resources coming soon. 🙏🖤 #DesignTokens #DesignSystems #WebDev

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A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

bell.bzIt’s been a very hard year - Andy BellUnlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year...

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When AI can generate good-looking work instantly, “good” can’t carry the weight it used to. Change the conversation to reflect what design has always been at its best: goals-aligned, research-informed, constraints-aware, and outcomes-focused. @pseudoroom.bsky.social shares how.

alistapart.comEvolving Design Language in the AI Era: From Good to GreatExplore how the AI era reshapes design language, emphasizing objective critique over subjective opinions for successful outcomes.

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Meet the first speakers for Pixel Pioneers Bristol 2026! 👇👇👇

Oliver Lindberg@oliverlindberg.com

📣 It's time to announce the first speakers for @pixelpioneers.co Bristol 2026! On 19 June, we will be joined by: 👉 @rachelandrew.bsky.social 👉 @candi.bsky.social 👉 @morganepeng.bsky.social 🎟️ Check out their talks and snap up one of the last early bird tickets: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

This started with IBM 5u chassis from eBay, built up and running Linux and later Windows NT 4, then Windows 2000. Then 1u Dell boxes running Windows 2000. Then Media Temple VPS Linux servers in various incarnations. Used for Tango/Witango/SQL Server, then Drupal (starting w/D5) Until this morning.

There are a lot of way more important things to deal with in the world right now, but after a very long journey we shipped an update that completes the shift over to our brand font across all of Chewy.com (and we were able to do it via one theme file, loaded from a central cdn). Feels pretty great

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Still plenty of work to do but pretty excited to relaunch my website for the first time since 2018. Lots of new typography and techniques already, and really chuffed about how it’s coming along. Welcome to the new rwt.io

Why are mobile browsers so intent on capturing ‘hover’?! It’s just dumb, and breaks things for everyone, making you have to tap twice. Seems bad for everyone. (I know you can put it in a pointer media query, but conceptually it’s just dumb)

It’s up! Video of my talk about curiosity and its role in design that I shared for the first time at #btconf

beyond tellerrand@beyondtellerrand.com

As I was travelling yesterday, here is the next video of #btconf Düsseldorf today. It is @jpamental.bsky.social and his "Curious Findings". An exploration of curiosity – and its role in design. youtu.be/s3YOE0RXpN0

Guy sitting across from me on the commuter train home has an open beer in paper bag and is watching a show on his phone with the volume up, no headphones. Just doin’ his thing on a rush hour train.

You know what coffee shop? I don’t want to be nagged about whether or not I liked my experience of buying a coffee via email literally every time I buy a coffee. Or maybe just ‘never’. Your barista will know because I tip them for their lovely attention to their craft.