Brett Jephson

A life measured out in tea spoons and progress bars. Web dev. Product Engineer @GitBookIO. Author @PacktPub.

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Not great at self-publicity but going to give it a go. The book I co-authored is The HTML and CSS Workshop and is available as a practical workshop from https://t.co/o6QVps1X4N. @PacktPub

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Time to read Blood Meridian again

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@round I sense this is why AI will destroy us all.

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#a11y question: when WCAG 3 becomes a standard, will ATAG get updated too?

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@brad_frost Probably the most interesting was The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery by James Walvin.

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@mhevery I’m thinking of as3 and robot legs era. Signals were used by lots of as3 libraries but not integral to Flash.

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@donnavitan Design tokens are there to communicate design decisions across an organisation, products and technologies.

Variables are product and technology specific and can store data that changes often - per user, per request.

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Finished the @coldwarsteve jigsaw in time for 2023.

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@Spotify tells me I like Chamber Psych. I’ve no idea what that is.

[GitBook @GitBookIO]

GitBook 3.0 is here, with a modern new look for public docs and tons of integrations! Founder @SamyPesse shares more on why we believe a Git-powered workflow is the best way to create, publish and maintain documentation—https://t.co/axagzagdZ5

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A week long holiday with kids is mostly just mopping up sick, isn’t it?

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@hereinthehive I was there for about 5 years and enjoyed it a lot. Learned loads from being around so many enthusiastic and talented people.

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@danhett Trying to fight the urge until October but it is a hard slog.

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Just the other day I learned that you can emulate a focused page from Chrome dev tools and, quite frankly, it has been life changing.

DevTools > command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P on mac) > "Emulate a focused page".

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@mmatuzo I'm not sure I see the benefits. Doesn't this make it more difficult to differentiate between css custom properties and css keywords? Plus, yet another build tool. Skipping this one until every job description asks for 5 years experience with it.

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@cluffpost I find this hard too. Especially, now that I have been doing this a while. Some experiences that seem relevant are distant memories.

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I've been rather anti-web3 up until now. Mostly because it seemed pointless and an Earth killer. Should I reconsider now that @ethereum has done this merge thing?

[Matt Walker @apixelpusher]

Hey folks, I have a friend who's design systems team literally just got laid off. They're a seasoned design lead with a high bar for craft and I wouldn't recommend them if they weren't ✨high quality✨

Who's design systems teams are hiring? Appreciate it!

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@danmall Nathan Curtis coined the principle "favor community over control".

I'd like to learn about building that community. What does it mean for a central design system team? What does it mean for a business that might like the idea of control?

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A lovely walk in the Picos de Europa today. Not seen so many butterflies since I last visited Pili Palas