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robdimarzo.bsky.social
Design engineering at KPMG. Big fan of CSS, design systems, and accessibility.
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The Mars Volta achieving mainstream success is the greatest mystery of my lifetime

!important, not even once

If deleting your overgrown CSS doesn’t feel like this, you’re doing it wrong

Ugh, typeface websites are sickeningly good!! And fun! gt-standard.com #designsky

Time to get in shape() with @css-only.dev

My #GoogleIO video “Web animations today and tomorrow” has been published. Check out this session to learn how to guide, inform, and delight users by adding subtle and supportive animations to your web UIs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXW...

View transitions are mind-blowing. The absolute trivial amount of JavaScript it takes to make this shuffling effect work is astounding. I mean, I actually spend more lines *changing the background color* than I do moving elements around! 🤯 codepen.io/collinsworth...

🚨ATTN Design systems designers: Don’t force datepickers on users. Datepickers are great for selecting dates nearby today’s date - like scheduling a meeting, booking a hotel, etc. But for all other dates - like birth, financial, expiration dates, etc - typing is the ideal experience.

CSS grid-area is awesome, but something about it has always felt off to me. Outside of some basic use cases, I’ve found it awkward to use, read, and maintain compared to grid-row and grid-column. Grid-area truthers, what am I missing?

The design of everyday things

Am I the only one who pronounces ARIA and WAI-ARIA like Luigi and Waluigi?

My millennial urge to press ⌘+s compels me

Crappy css begets even crappier css

I still think about this tweet, occasionally, as I fill hundreds of pages with bootstrap helper classes. @robdimarzo.bsky.social

Inside you there are two wolves My wolves:

In this house we celebrate the birth of the World Wide Web on Christmas 34 years ago on December 25, 1990, Tim Berners-Lee launched the first website and the first web browser. Try the emulator worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/

Twas the night ::before CSSmas and all through the DOM, not a selector was cascading, not even a *

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.

I wish I had the same confidence as Berkshire Hathaway’s website