Stuart Robson

👀 Looking for Design Systems consultancy or front-end development for your project? 📅 I have availability and would love to assist! 👇 Here's some of my recent work 💡 If you’ve got something coming up, let’s chat! 🌐 Visit www.alwaystwisted.com or email me at stu@alwaystwisted.com 🙏🖤

so, if you're using Three's home broadband and find yourself without the internet today … 4G connections still work and you'd need to log into the router and change some settings

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! 🎃

The internet is off at the house … off to the local cafe and pubs for the day it is.

Will be watching Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home later. The only ST movie I watched at the cinema.

Breaking out of school and we were kicking hard. A lot of good dreams and a lot of false starts, swore we wouldn't get old before our time Little Angels released the single - Too Much Too Young - 34 years ago today. Crikey.

"nuclear wessels" rip Chekov

not a bad effort after ~7 hours at the desk.

if you're claiming we need to return to using imperial units because it's a barrier to growth … you're not a serious party (and most of us already know that)

started a rewatch marathon of The X-Files on my second monitor (docked iPad) … was Tooms really that scary a character, way back when?

starlight, more like star shite, just give me silver Apple.

80-year-old President Lula da Silva won the election and Jeremy Corbyn has smashed all of his plant pots in the shed

this was meant to be gst

todays todo list

finally found a potential use case for grid lanes … hold me.

😍I'm thinking this could be quite the workhorse.

an iPhone Duo app that plays a different fart noise when you unfold the device.

who'd've thought … Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness turned 31 years old yesterday/

some titbits of iPhone Duo info in the latest webkit features update - https://webkit.org/blog/18486/webkit-features-for-safari-27-1/

post weekly shop cheese straws and prosciutto, pesto, and soft cheese pin wheels.

just a little, thankful - I'm really enjoying my current client work - social media post. hashtag blessed 🙏🖤

“can everyone stop getting shot‽” #SlowHorses

first attempt at a (not so) deep dish Chicago style pizza pie.

I've 34 front-end related tabs of blog posts open … time for a clear out.

… and again

a #StusRoast for a 'resolve all conversations' button in Github.

It's a really good time to get on the newsletter list (if you haven't already, that is): css-tricks.com/newsletters/

next year we're rumoured to be getting the iPhone 20, but "because seventeen eighteen nineteen" just doesn't make sense.

One, two, three, four, five against one. Pearl Jam released Vs. … 33 years ago today.

turning the home office tiny heater on today.

… and again.

the man doesn't just love buses, he loves quiet buses https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/19/andy-burnham-launches-campaign-against-headphone-dodgers-on-public-transport

first (bog standard) black americano from Starbucks in about 15 years … still tastes horrible.

All pluses! Next up Derby, Nottingham, somewhere else I forget. Homeward bound for take out and strictly.

London Friends. I need to get from Waterloo to ~Sidcup. The Lewisham to Sidcup line is not working today. Thinking Waterloo East > Welling / Bexleyheath then bus or uber. Any other ideas?

Off to London with Ethan to Rose Bruford College for the day. To the station! !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR3xwENK7Jo&t=43s

finished for the weekend, which includes - a trip to the dentist. - a trip to Sidcup to Rose Bruford College w/ Ethan as they've decided they want to do a creative (live) lighting course (somewhere that was on my UCAS list :sob:). - an pencilled in attempt to reorganise my office.

CASTING CALL: I had a team drop out, so I need 2 devs on short notice to join an episode of Web Dev Challenge in Portland on Oct 21–23 TimescaleDB and sensor data challenge. if that sounds like fun, grab a friend and slide into my DMs ASAP! 💜

did we all manage to pre-order our foldable phones for our device labs this morning?

Yesterday, the CSSWG accepted my proposal for mesh gradients and diffusion curve gradients! Want to make gradients like this natively in CSS? Well, we've started the work on it. It's coming! Here's the Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

LinkedIn’s “open to work” feature will be entirely replaced tomorrow

My bank is now a mobile network operator.

no, no thank you.