Ryan Trimble, UX/UI Developer

Hope everyone had a great week!

Design systems are a fun topic for me, because I like design and I like systems.

Interesting Links <hgroup> Memory recollection issues with ADHD posted by Chris Ferdinandi on March 31, 2024.

Interesting Links <hgroup> How Computers Work: The 1s And 0s posted by Alan W.

Sometimes I feel like I share the same birthday as the Internet.

Interesting Links <hgroup> Fluid Design with CSS Round posted by George Francis on March 17, 2024.

I mostly wanna talk about the International Symposium on Making Websites Real Good conference.

Housekeeping Before we dig into this weeks interesting links, I wanted to do some housekeeping.

I've been using Obsidian for just over a month now, I am kind of hooked on it.

If you work with me, you may have heard me mention SVG sprite sheets and wondered to yourself, "Man... he's talking about SVG sprite sheets again, does Ryan not have any actually fun hobbies?"

My favorite framework and its amazing team of developers released a new feature this week that I am very excited about: Astro DB.

Earlier today over on the Frontend Horse Discord, there was a super interesting discussion on how different folks take notes and what tools they use.

One of my (very few) complaints while working with Astro was that using components in MDX files tends to be a bit clunky, especially for those who may not be as familiar with how to import things.

During CSS Day, Bramus Van Damme did a fantastic two-subject talk on the View Transitions API and Scroll-Driven Animations.

One of the most interesting facts I learned from CSS Day in Amsterdam was that there are over fifty JavaScript-related conferences around the world and only one CSS-specific conference, CSS Day.

How cool is it that we can now take two colors and mix them together in CSS?

Judging from my London Calling and Vue Conf Recap posts from earlier this year, you might get the impression that I travel a lot.

I had never been to New Orleans, a developer conference, or eaten gumbo, so there were a lot of firsts for me on this trip.

This upcoming week my team and I will be heading to New Orleans, LA to attend Vue Conf!

Sliders/carousels are pretty much the banes of user experience design.

At work, there is a particular component in our design system that I have made obvious I dislike immensely, yet I have not been able to figure out a solid replacement.

The Mountain Goats are currently on their "Spectral Tide" tour after releasing the album Bleed Out, back in the fall of 2022.

One of the many reasons I'm so drawn (lol, drawn) to <abbr title="scalable vector graphics">SVG</abbr> art and animation on the web is I love cartoons.

Arc browser, by The Browser Company of New York, is a new Chromium-based web browser that I have been using as my daily-driver browser.

I have been following the development of Astro pretty much since the beginning.

My wife and I love animals and probably would open a zoo if we could.

If you look at tech Twitter, it feels like artificial intelligence is the only thing anyone is discussing.

I know it isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I love CSS.

As a massive fan of the game, The Last of Us HBO series knocks it out of the park.

I began using Fig when it was just a tool to add autocomplete to the command line, but I have been following its development and it has made some pretty impressive additions to its feature set.

Polypane has an extensive list of features that help find issues with responsive design, accessibility, search engine optimization, and much, much more.

Sometimes you write a bit of JavaScript that makes you remember why you like using JavaScript.

I am now a world traveler.

I've been obsessed with Astro for a while now; however, I hadn't converted my website.

My current favorite thing in web dev is a new site generator called Astro.

Recently a fellow team member challenged me to recreate the new Spotify "Like" button using only CSS.

With the release of our CSS Framework, Platform UI, it might be fun to actually build something with it!

I’m a huge fan of animation on the web, especially when it comes to user interaction.