Mike Aparicio

I'm currently looking for full-time or contract work. I specialize in building CSS-based design systems where engineers don't have to write CSS and helping product teams develop a shared language for building on the web. If you know of anything that might be a fit, please let me know. Thanks!

Interested in setting aside the magical prompter and learning some web standards skills the old fashioned way? You can sign up for my online Web Components course for free until Oct 31 with the code markitzero. If you find it useful, please consider letting folks know! 🎃

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

observed in Culver City: a beautiful mural honoring Pappas, the patron saint of meatball sandwiches

Me, flagging every other post as "Seems like AI slop" on LinkedIn.

I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care to admit. “A multiplayer game where the multiplayer was about companionship, empathy, and comfort, instead of competition or even interaction.” [notsolitaire.com]

@keithjgrant.com No way! 😂

Me, talking about CSS at a party

ky's approach here is based, and during my time at different agencies I developed a similar strat. write code, not too much, mostly html. henry.codes/writing/how-...

This yes this!! Thank you @michelleb.bsky.social

🦊 Wrote an angry little plea to all the stars in the firmament and whatever saints exist, asking them to deliver me from recommendation engines. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-wa...

Just rolled credits on BIG WALK with a group of friends and wow. What started as a silly puzzle game becomes something else completely by the end. A profound and kind of emotional journey. One of my favorite gaming experiences ever.

Finished Big Walk with some friends tonight and it was up there among my favorite co-op experiences of all time.

I think the thing the "but AI can one-shot it bro" commenters on these videos don't get, is while I am showing how to do something with CSS, it goes a little beyond that. I'm exploring what's possible these days, and often looking at how we can make things that aren't so straight-forward.

Too real youtu.be/0otdTJa9IUc?...

i dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe

we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

👀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... 🙏🖤

"Figma Sites generated technically valid HTML that was utterly inappropriate for actual use. If you don’t know why that’s a problem, the tool won’t help you. If you do know why it’s a problem, you probably wouldn’t use the tool."

cool. but now I want an apology from all my enemies and everyone who said I was too "front-end" and not enough "full-stack".

Allow me a moment of proudness as The Index has now made it to issue #200. This weekly curation job really does make me happy and I'm determined to keep going to make sure you get the good stuff through these very not good times. piccalil.li/the-index/200/

"Job match is HIGH"

We'll quickly regret defunding and losing those who read the specs, learn, explore, measure, weigh, and share their hard-won experience. When the answer to every question is "I asked Claude and clicked approve" we yield actual answers to probabilities and will always be left asking, "Are you sure?"

Is the most recent episode of Dark Matter one of the greatest hours of sci-fi TV ever? @patrickklepek.bsky.social and I discuss on Decoding TV youtu.be/PEGQbcXqt-8

Learning this the hard way lately: “Adding insult to injury, the respective communities alienate interdisciplinary people who do not fit into their narrow conception of the field. For example, either you are considered as too “technical” for a “creative” job or too “creative” for “technical” job.”

NEW FONTS! The new Juncture typeface has an interactive minisite that walks you through all the fonts have to offer. 🔠 juncture.lettermatic.com

Three iconic theme songs from 80s TV shows where the main character is a vehicle #synth #80s #classic80s #guitar

“We yell because we're all trapped in a machine that was built, in part, to keep us yelling.”

This looks incredible.

Inclusive Design 24 is a free 24-hour accessibility conference running all day. No sign-up. No registration. All sessions are streamed live and publicly on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel h/t Elena Dosil inclusivedesign24.org/2026/

Ryan is doing a read-a-thon! my.read-a-thon.com/mCvc7

There's been so much dry content about Temporal so far but Sophie Koonin has written about a nice creative usage here. localghost.dev/blog/time-ba...

“Let me make it clear: without people at the top of their game sharing their experience and knowledge—regardless of whatever ‘game changing’ technology is in place—we are pulling up the ladders and committing our industry to stagnation and death.” bell.bz/youll-miss-p...

This is why my design systems are centered on CSS, which has evolved but hasn’t been replaced in 30 years. Our design tools and frontend frameworks change every few years, but with a solid, bespoke CSS framework supporting your system, devs don’t even have to write CSS and it works with any stack.

Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips

trying to make new friends as an adult

you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana