Louis Chenais

Svelte + gpui. No we're talking. I might give it a shot for a personal music app to replace Doppler which doesn't seem to be maintained anymore

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

If you've wondered why I haven't written a new blog post in about a month. It's because of this. 👇 typography.damato.design I've written a few posts about web typography in the past year, and even a talk in January. I've decided all of it probably needs a single place. So, this is the place.

Just want to emphasize: this is entirely built with CSS scroll snapping and view timelines – no JS gesture handling or animations. This means we get high frame rate fluid momentum and elastic physics matching the platform for free. It feels native because it really is – modern CSS is pretty amazing.

fixing contrast by moving only the lightness, so the brand colour still looks like the brand colour. lovely tool.

Haven't deployed it yet, but if you're interested you can take a look at staging.samwho.dev to see the work I've been doing on my site. The numbers are looking good (this is compared against a deployment at old.samwho.dev from just after /big-o was published.)

👀ooh lookie lookie Auditing a legacy design system: The first to-do list New article from me, this time on the @zeroheight.com blog zeroheight.com/blog/auditin... 🙏🖤

Some flavourful goodness about some fresh new web things over on the @zeroheight.com blog. Certainly read up on the latest and greatest to grace the web platform! So much brilliant new stuff to help your design systems thrive. zeroheight.com/blog/new-htm... #DesignSystems #HTML #CSS

Another little tool built on top of @meodai.bsky.social's Cusp Hanger to create palettes for generative systems. One ground colour plus foregrounds grouped by contrast. It generates a smooth ramp per hue and selects colours off that ramp by measured contrast.

Want to learn more about @e18e.dev? This is for you 👌

Ça y est, la chronique de @winstonsmith.eurosky.social a été passée en gratuit(merci @arretsurimages.net !) Donc à lire et à partager au maximum pour ne pas tomber dans le piège et avoir une autre analyse que la simple copie de la propagande des doomers de l'IA www.arretsurimages.net/chroniques/c...

Well it seems Tinycast is actually a perfect drop-in replacement for Raycast. Fully native, open source, Raycast data/settings import feature. I'll see how it goes. So far so good after one day 🤞 github.com/abue-ammar/t...

"It’s not always an easy sell to designers to make fluid choices, by simple maths." That's something that's been frustrating me for years now especially when building layouts. If only design tools like Figma would help designers reason with something else than fixed values...

Quick reminder, if you're working on a SaaS product that requires a login, please check if you've defined the well-known URL to change passwords. Password managers will check `/.well-known/change-password` to offer a quick way to change passwords. https://www.w3.org/TR/ch...

you really should and I need to do it more too ohhelloana.blog/tell-the-spe...

I moved from Raycast since they made it non-native and bad. Tinycast is a great native replacement: github.com/abue-ammar/t...

I agree. Atomic Design felt really helpful back in the days but now I prefer no category at all.

Hey, hey! I've been working on something last couple weeks. Libras - a music player that connects to your own music server. It's still early in development though already replaced apps on my desktop and android. Give it a try, let me know what you think. github.com/TrySound/lib...

This makes me want to try Starlight to document our design system and give Omlet another chance instead of paying $10k/y for an Enterprise Supernova licence...

Wrote a small post about experimenting with the Figma agent + Claude + GitHub Actions to ship our design tokens to npm. The agents wrote all the scripts. Then a button ran them faster. blog.gitbutler.com/design-token...

We've moved from Gatsby to Astro. After years of procrastination, surprisingly, 1 engineer and Claude did it in 2 weeks! 61% less homepage JavaScript, mobile score 66 to 90, page weight 2.1 MB to 1.1 MB. The story, happy engineers, bugs and all: evilmartians.com/chronicles/g...

🚀 Container style queries are baseline; New attr() capabilities are nearly there. Neat apart, but together they change how we can wire up components. Practice will make perfect, and I still need to rewire my brain for this combo. So, time to start that rewire. utilitybend.com/blog/contain...

This is huge for component libraries, written as web components, that have to somewhat recreate native CSS due to environment limitations. 👀

I'm struggling to find a desktop app to draw the plan of an appartment in 2D and export it in .dxf so it can be imported by professionals in Sketchup. Do you know a tool with a good UX AND a .dxf export format?

D'utilité publique pour se faire une opinion factuelle en amont de la présidentielle. 👇

Wrote about what's up in angle brackets land.

I still cannot believe that PNPM can interactively upgrade GitHub actions the same way it upgrades other NPM deps. SO good! pnpm.io/cli/update#u...

ESLint Config Inspector v3.4.0 now supports visualizing the ESLint stats, showing which rules or files are slowing you down! github.com/eslint/confi...

Anchor positioning makes this type of effect feel almost too easy to make now. If you want the long-form where I break it down in more detail, you can find it here: youtu.be/8_NQ7ARXz8c

My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

Interfaces Cheat Sheet is a list of very high level tips to help you improve your interfaces. I’m not usually a big fan of do/don’t, but it’s still interesting to have some “rules”. The trick: know the role, apply it, become a better designer, and then, know when it’s okay to break it as well.

Beyond “originally pitching this” which the article cites as my only involvement, I also put a fair bit of effort into driving this resolution at the recent Berlin F2F, together with @tabatkins.com. I’m *delighted* we convinced the WG to do it. It will be a gamechanger for CSS utility classes! 🎉

If you haven't followed @eliotwb.bsky.social's incredible reporting on Neom you may be under the impression that nothing got actually built before construction stopped. You'd be very wrong. Watch the video: The sheer scale of the waste. Utter madness. Surreal.

I did a feedback read-through of this post, and I think this is the most solid HTML boilerplate I've seen around. Well worth a look over to see if there is anything you can borrow from it. It has had me thinking that I should construct my own...

Ma position est et a toujours été : oui, les violations de données connaissent une hausse réelle et préoccupante ; non, cela ne démontre ni que toute l’administration française serait "une passoire", ni que le problème se résumerait à une incapacité technique française.

AI-ready design systems have stopped asking models nicely 🫣 Polaris: “You cannot trust your trained knowledge” 🫡 Primer: “CRITICAL: CALL THIS FIRST” 🙅 shadcn: “NEVER fetch raw files from GitHub manually” discover 150+ techniques used in 20 design systems: state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app

I really wanted to address this take by @mtsw.bsky.social and they have fairly closed it off, but I am going to use a screenshot because I think this is a really good topic to discuss and as someone for whom this is my entire job and has been for over a decade now I actually agree and disagree... 🧵

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

After having a chat with @danabra.mov about the Atmosphere, I was motivated to contribute. Imagine websites that support your own customized look over their own. Could be fun and inclusive! Try out the new studio to make your own look.

We've waited like 20 years for this? display: none → display: block; youtu.be/3QUOstYE7-Q

This is great and highlights one of the most common mistakes developers make since became easier to server render framework sites - rendering buttons etc before the JS has loaded to make them work.

new @e18e.dev blog post about when to publish source maps to npm 📦 source maps are often the reason behind bloated install sizes, but sometimes necessary. here we try to explain some of the balance, do/don't

The design system documentation spec project is now a proposed W3C community group. www.w3.org/community/bl... Big thanks to Cassondra Roberts for the suggestion.

La puissance des effets spéciaux d’ILM peut absolument tout créer, des paysages incroyables aux confins de la galaxie aux personnages les plus surréalistes jamais imaginés… ou alors juste faire de la cosmétique

Pour exiger de Doctolib qu'il n'utilise pas vos données de Santé dans ChatGPT à partir d'aout, ça prend 2 secondes -> www.doctolib.fr/privacy-sett... www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

OKHST: predictable color generation for real interfaces https://tenphi.me/blog/okhst-predictable-color-generation/