@brad_frost

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Design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, musician, & artist. Author of Atomic Design. Enthusiasm enthusiast.
Websitehttps://bradfrost.com/
Coursehttps://designtokenscourse.com/
Bookhttps://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to check out the epic March Mad CSS: https://madcss.com/ How freaking fun!

The final is happening right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOUgT7HK5k

I can't wait to revisit this once I'm through my own grind.

March Mad CSS

The Ultimate CSS Tournament. Brought to you by Syntax

💥OH MY GOSH, I FINISHED RECORDING AND PUBLISHING THE COMPREHENSIVE PROCESS OF BUILDING A DESIGN SYSTEM IN CODE FOR MY ATOMIC DESIGN COURSE! https://atomicdesigncourse.com/
What's the German word for when you have really important work to do and then the electric company arrives to shut off your power for several hours?
Happiness is a clean garage.

🚨 Want mixins in CSS?
Help the @csswg by telling us what feels natural to you!

Look at the code in the screenshot. What resulting widths would you find least surprising?

A: All get 100px
B: div gets 100px, div > h2 gets 200px, div + p gets 300px
C: div gets 100px, div > h2 gets 200px, div + p gets no width*
D: div and div > h2 get 100px, div + p gets no width*

* from the mixin

Poll in https://front-end.social/@leaverou/116297811172593173

Please answer based on what feels natural *to you*, it's not a quiz.

🎮 My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game about playing music with Michael McDonald! https://youtu.be/2dIrb-iZ83c

You can play the game here: https://michael-mcdonald-game.netlify.app/

My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game "Play With Michael McDonald"

YouTube

This experience conjures up all sorts of thoughts and feelings, which I'll save for another day. But I do think that this exemplifies what I'm calling The Creative Infinite. https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/the-creative-infinite/

We can interact with our ideas seconds/minutes after we think of them. It's truly wild.

The Creative Infinite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJFEgIpNIic I found myself using the phrase "the Creative Infinite" when I'm talking about AI as a design material. I keep coming back to it because I don't think we've fully grasped what this technology actually is, what it can do, and what it means for human cre

Brad Frost

🎮 My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game about playing music with Michael McDonald! https://youtu.be/2dIrb-iZ83c

You can play the game here: https://michael-mcdonald-game.netlify.app/

My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game "Play With Michael McDonald"

YouTube

There was no talk about business value, GitHub issues, stakeholder alignment, or developer handoff. I simply got to articulate the sheer magic that is coding, the magic that is the World Wide Web, the magic that is having ideas, the magic of bringing those ideas to life, and the magic of creating things with other people.

Thank you, coding club. Thank you, World Wide Web. Thank you, code.

The gravity of the day is only now sinking in, and I choked up as I wrote this. Ella generally knows what I do, and often sees me staring at a glowing rectangle far more than I'd like.

But today I got to share my world — this world of code that I've been immersed in for nearly all of my life — with my daughter, her peers, and teachers. I got to proudly show off Ella's own coded creations, and got to see everyone's delight in collaborating to make something fun together.