https://www.thepostchaise.com/stories-and-guides/denne-hill-photo-walk-january-2025

Sunrise in Agia Anna, Greece. The trees reflect on an the infinity pool blending into the sea.

Fig is sunsetting

https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-is-sunsetting

Mountain ridges bathed in clouds, the light is dim and there is an eerie light on the tops. A lone rock sits on the top of the mountain looking like a figure.

The calculations behind Utopia.fyi. Available in JS/TS. - trys/utopia-core

GitHub - trys/utopia-core: The calculations behind Utopia.fyi. Available in JS/TS.

A sketchbook entitled “one sketch a day”
The cover features 4 stacked semi circles

Noisy textured gradients in shades of purple , red and blue

LIVE ON TWITCH: https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen  Become a backend engineer.  Its my favorite site https://boot.dev/?promo=PRIMEYT  This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer.    Get in on Discord: https://discord.gg/ThePrimeagen  Get in on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePrimeagen  ### Got Something For Me to Read or Watch??:  https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagenReact/

Being Competent With Coding Is More Fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLC2pHw3tHM

A screenshot of a work in progress design in Figma. The screenshot shows a work in progress admin dashboard for managing courses. The post refers to the sub-menu links for the course: details, tutors, pricing, workshops, exercise and rewards.

Fable is where teams design, animate, and scale meaningful creative work. Collaborate with motion design systems to ship expressive on-brand video content. Create for free.

Fable — The collaborative creative studio

http://therundown.studio/book/election-interference-an…

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasbrasington

https://www.therundown.studio/embedded/ethics-by-design-building-equitable-ai-systems

screenshot capturing work in progress art boards of a portfolio site.

The Post Chaise

Woven into the fabric of language, metaphors shape how we understand reality. What happens when we try using new ones?

How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/how-changing-the-metaphors-we-use-can-change-the-way-we-think

Screenshot from Spotify’s 2024 wrapped: My 2024 music evolution. My January. Liminal Noise Ambient.

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Zed - Code at the speed of thought

Aria falls in the Lake District. The waterfall is narrow and weaves between the rocks. Moss, ferns and lichen run along the rocks. A bridge arches across the waterfall made of old cobblestone.

A pasta sauce turned into an impressionist painting. It features swirls of red, cream and orange.

Shop window with the sign “Sid’s”. The type is coloured in different colours and is an exaggerated serif with big curves.

A screenshot of the Figma Edit Variant property panel.

The SQL database platform for content-driven websites.

Astro DB

notion portrait illustration style (thick black lines, whimsical) of myself

A resolution to make 2024 the year creatives get paid for all their work.

No Free Pitches

Hi, DSL community

We are excited to see you all again for our upcoming DSL meetup hosted at the Just Eat Takeaway.com office on 23 April.\*

\*Please note that our meetup 

Design Systems London #9, Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 6:00 PM   | Meetup

https://www.meetup.com/design-systems-london-meetup/events/300053802/

Back entrances to the Southbank centre in London, United Kingdom. The shot is of the light and shadow playing across the concrete. Yellow traffic cones pop out against the grey of the concrete.

Screenshot of Spotify showing the remaster 2025 album of cap n jazz one and only album. Retitled Shmap'n Shmazz

Today, we’re announcing beta for Code Connect, a feature built to improve design system adoption by making code more accessible and useful for developers.

The Right Code for Your Design System | Figma Blog

https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-code-connect/

fastcompany.com

https://www.fastcompany.com/91027996/the-big-design-freak-out-a-generation-of-design-leaders-grapple-with-their-future

Ice on a window that is in the formation of ferns stems and leaves.

Thomas Brasington (@tbrasington.bsky.social)

https://bsky.app/profile/tbrasington.bsky.social

Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205244/reddit-blocking-search-engine-crawlers-ai-bot-google

Wondering if I can pass css variables to view transitions dynamically…

I really wanted the floating panels. At least to try them for one day.

I always tell myself to write case studies as I go 🤦‍♂️

Crackling winter light.

https://www.thepostchaise.com/stories-and-guides/denne-hill-photo-walk-january-2025

I’ve been looking for a new job in UX/UI for a while now… I’m kinda losing hope after a few months. I apply to roles everyday, I send messages to recruiters, try to get visibility on my LinkedIn by interacting more and so on. I was going to network events every month and nothing!

Astro + ViewTransitions is pretty powerful !

I didn't get much time to shoot this year (third child) few keepers though https://www.thepostchaise.com

Sad to see Fig go. One of those small tools that was a massive productivity win https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-is-sunsetting

Probably should stop messing about with framer-motion and do some work.

Just seen that Utopia has released a lib for composing scales in typescript. For me this is very useful as it saves copy and pasting css from the site https://github.com/trys/utopia-core

Taking the time in December to reflect and consolidate on what I have learnt over the last 2 years ... but immediately getting distracted and thinking about how I can redesign my sites and refactoring the codebase 🤦

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLC2pHw3tHM
Spot on. LLMs are great when you know writing a sentence will save you writing the 100s of lines of code that you know need to be written, but when it writes 100s of lines of code you don't understand, your effed.

And a few innocuous looking links makes a large backlog

Little touches on changing the hover state color based on light/dark mode. Some are more prominent than others (if you want to try it https://www.thepostchaise.com)

Anyone used https://www.fable.app ? the baked in motion tools look great.

Launched a small thing yesterday http://therundown.studio/book/election-interference-an…

And I guess for work there is always LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasbrasington

We have launched a podcast, episode 2 is out, if you are interested in data, AI and ethics it maybe of interest https://www.therundown.studio/embedded/ethics-by-design-building-equitable-ai-systems

Back to work after 4 months paternity leave.

Re-platformed my photo blog onto the latest Next.JS and Sanity versions (oh JavaScript) https://thepostchaise.com ... that said it was fairly quick to rebuild a simple site like this. I may add some animations back in.

Good read and one to be mindful of when working with others. 

A side note on metaphors: it’s funny to think the filing cabinet metaphor is heading the way of the floppy disc. 

https://aeon.co/essays/how-changing-the-metaphors-we-use-can-change-the-way-we-think u u

Few days with Zed (https://zed.dev) so far its pretty nice, couple of crashes but it is early days. Having Vim bindings built in is a nice touch.

Turned sauce into art (image by DALLE, sauce by me)

How much for an add variant button in this panel?

Nice addition to Astro https://astro.build/db/

Worth a read https://nofreepitches.com/ (nice design too)

2024

Year of generalists or specialists?

For those in London and into design systems this April https://www.meetup.com/design-systems-london-meetup/events/300053802/

JavaScript is chaotic neutral. I love it. Fun quiz https://javascriptquiz.com

interesting https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-code-connect/ keen to see how the styling is outputted.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91027996/the-big-design-freak-out-a-generation-of-design-leaders-grapple-with-their-future 

I think people often conflate novelty with creativity, which is why design suffers here.

Going to give Bluesky a proper go if anyone here is on it to https://bsky.app/profile/tbrasington.bsky.social

The web will be paid for https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205244/reddit-blocking-search-engine-crawlers-ai-bot-google

Wonder if figma wouldn’t have been in hot water if they released a wireframing ai tool. Solves the writers block problem without having to look like a copy cat.

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