Mark Tomlinson

Sugarcube is now publicly available! sugarcube.sh

Stillstand durch Technik.

Business model architecture masquerading as software architecture.

Absolute banger this week.

Quantum’s design tokens are now open source: github.com/ThalesGroup/... It’s the first public package of the Thales Digital Design System, under the MIT license. Why we opened them, what’s inside, and what’s next: quantum.thalesdigital.io/blog/quantum...

The rain delays in this SA vs AUS test match really messing with my evening plans.

noted: neither career path is comfortable in the face of a machine that only extracts value dbushell.com/notes/2026-1...

I've been wanting to give @roomy.space a try, so I made a space on there! A casual space for software dev, but I'm sure it will drift to atproto stuff as well (is called Proto Callers). If you've been wanting to check roomy out, this might be a good place to! roomy.space/did:plc:syiz...

posts cv alumn feed down 😢 @taurean.bryant.land are you the person to politely notify about this?

Need more people I can talk to about things I'm up to with @sugarcube.sh. Ideation, collaboration, mentorship (I need an OSS mentor!).

I would like to retract the words "a" and "amount of fun" from my original statement, svp.

The team worked really hard on rebuilding and redesigning the Workday Design site from scratch. Still lots to do, but this is a big milestone. 🥳 design.workday.com

I feel like more and more people I follow have been posting music lately and it's really been improving my feed/experience on here.

We have $100K to give away to open source maintainers! Let us know your suggestions and nominations.

This is proving a stupid amount of fun. Putting a huge amount of effort into spec compliance and perf.

for (const piece of pieces) piece.pieces = pieces; I think my code just unionised?

TIL about PD rockets. TIL about Rocket. TIL about Datastar.

My music player got a new home at libras-music.app and comes with a new website and demo player. Let me know if you have a feedback.

Sorry for the slow reply, I've been trying to give your design system its own IDE and it's quite tricky okay.

Here is a list of tech co-ops. tech-coops.xyz

Ayyyy! Just released 1.0 of my take on an opinionated CSS framework. varde.variant.dev/docs/ Look, I love packages, but isn't it something magical about just referring to a CSS file? To get fonts, colors and utilities. It's probably not a design system, but it certainly is the foundation of one.

I have a lot of feelings about the whole CSS-Tricks debacle. Here's me trying to be constructive about it. ericwbailey.website/published/cs...

Fewer startups, more co-ops. Fewer founders, more communities.

🎵 What use eyesight if it should melt? What use memory covered in estuary silt?

Check out "Issue 018" Another “Several People Are Typing…” hang is coming up this Friday, September 18. This month, we’re talking astrophotography, demonstrating the value of design systems, and… cataloguing public restrooms. three-and-three.com/a/3mvghkbe4z...

Week of September 13, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-9-13

Some writing only works if we let it do its work on us, the readers. New short post on Moonpointing about reading, writing, philosophy, Pierre Hadot, and words spent trying to describe the ineffable. https://moonpointing.org/blog/this-post-is-not-the-moon/

Been hard at work to create an opinionated CSS framework. Best thing in it is what I dubbed <color-mode>. It sets a a color palette and everything inherits from it. The possibilities it opens for composing is positively bonkers. Got 4 different button variants, but color is not an axis. 🧵

👀 Show us when you're done?!?

My sponsors page is live! github.com/sponsors/Try...

Agnes Falls >>>

Anyone know of any others?

Current availability: booked solid while I migrate the eff off all the platforms.

@strange.website @likethecolour.red Can I politely request a website dedicated to the situationists where as you scroll, "sous les pavés, la plage", is slowly revealed from underneath the content somehow? Thank you, yours &c.

The night has been unruly: where we lay, / Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, / Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death, / CSS-in-JS is back

I love watching England play test cricket during the English summer. The day's play starts at 8pm Melbourne time - perfect for unwinding.

Trust is the most valuable thing we're losing in OSS these days. Join communities, chat, have a laugh, learn how to give and accept feedback, and help out your favorite projects with some good old-fashioned code & love.

I know I’ve been posting a lot but I’m thinking of reviving The Organic Software Directory as a webring. ("Organic Software" was coined by @pketh.org in this fantastic post, which you should read: pketh.org/organic-soft... )

Melbourne’s now or never festival brings audio, light, smoke and projection together at night