Andy Bell

@belldotbz
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Founder at: Set Studio and Piccalilli
Complete CSS Course: complete-css.com
CSS Book: every-layout.dev
Newsletter: piccalil.li/the-index/

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I recently sat down with @brad_frost for his podcast “Wake Up Excited”. Here is a little write-up and quick summary of what we covered and why I liked it. https://marcthiele.com/notes/wake-up-excited
A Conversation about Work, Doubt, Joy, and Why Community Still Matters

I recently sat down with for his podcast “Wake Up Excited”. Here is a little write-up and quick summary of what we covered and why I liked it.

beyond tellerrand Events

Hiya pals. I'm finding multiple social media accounts a bit much so I'm gonna lean into bridging https://bell.bz/cool-bridging-thing/ that I wrote about last year.

My canonical place will be bluesky, but with bridging, we can all talk to each other still, so maybe it's worth thinking about?

Masto is cool and I completely get it when people want to stay here. It's just not for me and that's fine.

Here's my bridgy account @bell.bz

Let me know yours!

See you around the world wide web 💛

Cool bridging thing - Andy Bell

There’s a cool service that bridges bluesky and mastodon accounts together called Bridgy Fed. It’s pretty cool because you can interact with accounts across platforms, from the platform you’re happy in. That’s bluesky for me, personally, but I know a lot of folks are happy on mastodon. That’s great, we should all be happy, especially […]

Andy Bell

ICYMI, yesterday I published the last issue of my newsletter for the year. In it: fonts, books, events, and other things you might enjoy if you love type.

Featuring: @amyhoodlum, @typeparis @ilovetypography, @onpaperwings, @frerejonestype, @jakegiltsoff, @henry, and many more.

https://elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter/the-festive-escape-pod

Elliot Jay Stocks | Time-dilating chaos

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography

The last Polypane release of the year (no promises) is out!

Polypane 27.1 supercharges Portals with console and snippet support, adds a ton of new features to projects and the elements panel and boosts performance due to smarter outline parsing.

https://polypane.app/blog/polypane-27-1-expanding-portal/

Polypane 27.1: Expanding Portal

Polypane 27.1 is here and Polypane Portal has expanded! The Polypane console will now show the console messages from all connected browsers so you get instant…

Polypane

Fellow people in marketing: see this as yet another warning.

People do not want to see AI and it’ll do damage to yours/your client’s brand https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdgrnvp082o

McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash

McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".

BBC News

Andy has reminded me that our Black Friday https://every-layout.dev/ sale is still on ‼️

If you're interested in having a massive epiphany, followed by an unbelievable endorphin rush, knowing that you suddenly, really, ACTUALLY understand CSS, you owe us an astonishingly meagre $34.50. Let's all have a good Xmas, cheers!

Relearn CSS layout

“Instead of seeing us as people who brought valuable knowledge and expertise to the project, they saw us as the hands that would execute their vision.”

We codify that the decisions are made by the studio, not the client. Hard, but necessary.

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/

The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan

How to get people to NOT contact you

Only a couple days left to save over 45% on our courses during our Black Friday sale: https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/our-black-friday-course-sale-starts-now/
Our Black Friday Course Sale Starts Now

Our Black Friday sale starts now! It will run now through Friday, December 5th. Level up your design systems game and save with our biggest sale of the year: MEGA BUNDLE: save 45% & get all courses for $1000! Save 45% with our MEGA BUNDLE! It includes all of our current and in-progress

Brad Frost

Today is the LAST DAY of my Black Friday sale! ⌛️

If you've been thinking about grabbing access to the Practical Accessibility course, now's the time to do it 👇🏻

30% off expires tomorrow: https://practical-accessibility.today

The Practical Accessibility Course

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

When talking about LLMs and sustainability, it's not enough to say “we don't know the impact, as companies don't disclose data”.

We may not have a lot of the actual data, but there are pretty reasonable estimates. Even conservative ones say LLMs have magnitudes more climate impact than doing the same thing without LLMs.