Cristiano Rastelli

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Design System Lead at HashiCorp. In love with Atomic Design, Design Systems & CSS architecture. Attendee/speaker/organiser of tech conferences and meetups.
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@css Ohhhhhh! 😮

Any #CSS experts out there that can help me solve this puzzling question about CSS custom props, aliasing, inheritance and `:root`?

Look at this codepen: https://codepen.io/didoo/pen/OPLbROG

Why the color cascades down correctly, via the "aliased" CSS variable, when the "theming" class is applied to the `<html>` element (which is `:root` in CSS) and not when it's applied to the `<body>` element? (In the same way as the non-aliased variable works)

I don't understand: what am I missing? 🤔

Strange CSS props inheritance

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@sturobson nice! 🏆
@kelset non credo che ci siano DMs jn Mastodon. LinkedIn?
@kelset maybe the time has come? 😀
The talk that took me on an unexpected journey (and blew my mind a bit, tbh) was “Less Design, More Systems” by @scott_riley.
I’ll leave a couple of pictures I’ve taken, to give you a a little taste, but if/when the recording will be online I suggest to watch the entire talk (I’ll do).
The talk that resonated the most with me was “What to do when everyone hates you (and your design system)” (sic. 😀) by Diane Larsen, DS Manager at Tesco. The way in which she conceptualized the different layers of “where things happen” and where the design system integrates (and how) is simply perfect!
Here’s a link to the collaborative notes, if you’re interested: http://bit.ly/converge2024-collabNotes
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A couple of photos of Brighton, beautiful as always

Great first day at #ConvergeUK! Fantastic talks*, great vibe, a LOT of food for thought (also for a seasoned** design system practitioner like me), and above all was nice to catch up with long time friends, as well as meeting new like-minded ones. I can’t wait to be back tomorrow for the second part!

* kudos to who worked on the lineup 👏 and to @zeroheight for organizing the event
** read: old 💨