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  Your codebase is full of reasons. Every hack, workaround, temporary fix tells a story. The Dig unearths that story, then gives you a prioritised plan to improve safely while you keep shipping. https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/introducing-the-dig-front-end-code-archaeology-as-a-service 🙏🖤

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  Ahoy hoy! I'll be available from mid-July for new client work and I can help you and your team with: - Front-End Dev. - Design Token Architecture - Design Systems, tooling, processes & component libraries
 - Digging into your legacy front-end code Let's chat! https://www.alwaystwisted.com 🙏🖤

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  … I could do with quite a bit of coffee at the moment.

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  "There is no such thing as a new idea." ‘Escape from New York’ – Zack Snyder Directing Remake of John Carpenter Classic just fucking stop remaking everything already.

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  ReliCSS is becoming quite the little suite of tools for front-end archeology … finally added a link to it from my sites main navigation too.

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  Faith No More released their "Album of the year" 29 years ago today. Here's The Spice Girls introducing them on Top Of The Pops where they performed Ashes to Ashes https://youtu.be/l4BriOeeVcc

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  You've inherited a codebase and wondered what media queries are being used and how old they could be? Introducing media query palaeontologist (the name needs work) as part of the ReliCSS front-end archeologists toolkit https://www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/media-query-palaeontologist 🙏🖤

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  Do you realise, Janet, that in modern society, there is almost no need to leave the house?

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  nah, nah-n-n-nah, nah-nah, nah-a nah. Metallica released the album Load 30 years ago today.

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  Hello friends I’m on the lookout for my next client I’m looking for part-time/full-time projects and I can help you with - front-end development / architecture - design systems consultancy & development - design tokens integrations, set-ups, tooling - front-end archeology https://www.alwaystwisted.com

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  listening to the new Evanescence album, dreaming that it's 2003 again.

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  From The Archives: Styling The Gap with CSS CSS gap decorations are here! No more hacking pseudo elements or writing extra markup. Just simple, powerful rules for styling gaps in grids and flex layouts. https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/styling-the-gap-with-css 🙏🖤

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  … and the winner of the 2026 World Cup Team photos goes to … Norway https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7333438/2026/06/04/norway-world-cup-viking-photo/ [paywall]

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  What can you get your favourite person (or yourself) when they're a huge Labyrinth fan?? The complete set of ('vaulted') Funko Pop figures that I'm selling. https://ebay.us/m/Ui2gkt

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  Ethans first university undergrads open day tomorrow. What is time‽

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  the black and white footage of its fateful last voyage made a younger me think this was a lot bigger than it actually is https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5r0yydl2o

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  Hello World I'm nearing the end of my current contract and on the lookout for my next adventure. I'm a Front-End Developer and Design Systems specialist, excited to dive into new projects and tackle new challenges! Let’s make some rocking websites! stu@alwaystwisted.com 🙏🖤

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  An hour long prequel to The Bear? Yes please. https://disneyplus.com/en-GB/browse/entity-a28327ab-0812-4da4-ad69-63844e206092

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  Do you work on #DesignSystems? Then why not help the community out a little and fill out this years State of Design Systems survey https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7QcLMZtANhqEH0a 🙏🖤

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  💔 Front-End Developer Seeking Meaningful Contracts Looking for a new partner to elevate your next project? I specialise in front-end architecture and design systems, crafting beautiful user experiences & enhancing legacy code. Let’s make something amazing together! stu@alwaystwisted.com 🙏🖤

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  ⭐ available for client work ⭐ Front-end developer & Design Systems consultant with 15 years experience building component libraries, modernising legacy codebases, writing docs & launching new projects Let's fix your tech debt or create something new stu@alwaystwisted.com 🙏🖤

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  nice https://grid.iamkate.com

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  "Friday, I tried the experiment: let Claude build our component library from our team’s Figma file. Monday, I ran Lighthouse." Before: 187KB, LCP 1.2s, TBT 120ms. After: 524KB, LCP 3.4s, TBT 410ms. https://www.designsystemscollective.com/ai-built-it-in-1-hour-lighthouse-gave-me-43-6f88e5c23d6b

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  ⭐ New Blogpost ⭐ Design Token naming conventions explained. It covers the 3-tier model, 5 common naming patterns (CPM, OPM, tier-based, context-first), plus practical rules for handling variants, states, and modes. Make your tokens scalable from day one. https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-token-naming-conventions 🙏🖤

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  HTMLHell smashing it out of the park on day one with this article from @5t3ph Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/1/

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  📣 Hello there! It's my last day with my current client, and I'm ready for my next freelance adventure. I am a Design Systems consultant and a "front of the front" front-end developer, I specialise in Design Systems, Design Tokens, component libraries and font-end tooling. If you need help with your project, let's chat: hire@sturobson.com. Seeking short/mid-term remote work. Let's create amazing Design Systems together! 🙏🖤 #WebDev #W...

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  Adding the baseline status web component to my (awesome eleventy) website so I can add it to articles as and when needed with a shortcode.

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  🎉 Looking for new work. 15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist. I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems. I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation. Short to long term. Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com reposts appreciated <3

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  🎉 New Blogpost 🎉 Building Typographic Scales in CSS with :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow() https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/building-typographic-scales-with-headings-sibling-index-and-pow What if we could create a typographic scale for headings with one line of CSS? One rule to scale them all. #CSS #FrontEnd #WebDev