Notices by brad_frost (brad_frost@mastodon.social)

"I think that CSS is the dao of the web. It is water that flows." - @johnallsopp at CSS Day conference

John wrote one of the most important articles in the history of the web, and it will forever be relevant so long as the web exists: https://alistapart.com/article/dao/

🤯 CHAPTER 4 OF OUR DESIGN TOKENS COURSE IS ALMOST DONE. 67 videos so far, detailing how to bring every part of a token system to life in Figma & code.

We're finishing the chapter by recording videos about The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of token automation and synchronization between design and code.

💥 We're releasing our Figma & code token architecture to people who have preordered the course, and when that's live we're raising the price to $750: https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/last-chance-for-subatomic-design-tokens-course-early-bird-pricing/

OH HELL YEAH. A mega-helpful glossary for design tokens by Donnie D'Amato: designtokens.fyi

You are living your life. No matter what:

- you are feeling
- is going on in your environment
- other people are feeling
- is happening in the world
- has happened
- will happen

You are living your life.

Amazing life hack: learn how to be genuinely happy for other people. Don't feel threatened by others' happiness. Don't go into comparison mode. Don't be a wet blanket. Don't avoid it.

Embrace others' happiness. Bask in it. Let their smile become your smile. Let it infect you. Let it lift you up.

An incredible collection of Pocket Protectors…"1,719 and growing!" http://www.pojman.com/PP/pocket_protectors/index.html

This design inspiration goldmine was naturally brought to my attention by my pal, Aaron Draplin.

We're going to focus on creating courses starting with our first course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens: https://designtokenscourse.com

This is going to be our main jam, so any support and help spreading the word is greatly appreciated!

💥 ANNOUNCEMENT: I’m excited to share that I — along with my brother Ian Frost — are going fully independent: https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/announcement-im-going-independent/

I want to direct my energy, enthusiasm, perspective, and skills at pursuits that will lift people up, inspire them, empower them, help them lead more creative and fulfilling lives. I'm so excited to move into this new chapter fully embracing positivity, creativity, unabashed enthusiasm.

2024 was a massive year of self-actualization, and I learned so much about myself. Frostapalooza was an embodiment of my philosophy of life, and I now have the confidence & perspective to carry that into all aspects of my life. https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/2024/

It's bittersweet to say farewell to Big Medium; end of an era! I'm so grateful to Josh Clark for everything. I'm so grateful to Jessi, Kevin, Veronika, Abby, Sam, TJ, and all our other collaborators. I'm so grateful to all of the clients who welcomed us into their worlds and trusted us to help them grow and evolve. I’m so incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished together over the years, and these vast and varied experiences will continue to shape my work and life.

We'll be offering workshops/training both as a supplement to our courses and as full and multi-day sessions: https://bradfrost.com/workshops/

We'll also be doing some light consulting work ("light" meaning "please don't send us a company laptop") https://bradfrost.com/consulting/

If you are interested in our courses or doing training or consulting with us, feel free to reach out: https://bradfrost.com/contact/

📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! I'm excited to announce that we're launching a new online course called Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOD266ljeQg

This deep-dive course will teach you all you need to master design tokens. Learn more and preorder here: https://designtokenscourse.com/

I keep going back and forth about my website. I don't really have the desire to move my blog away from WordPress (if it ain't broke...), but there are many things _around_ my blog I want to handle outside of WordPress. Trying to figure out the most elegant ways to do that.

I made this sign to try to capture how I'm feeling about everything right now.

Now that social media is scattered, I think it's finally time to set up an Indie Web-esque "post (even short stuff) on my own site and automatically post it to Mastodon, Threads, et al.

I've got a WordPress site and I'm not looking to move off of that anytime soon; does anyone have any good resources on how to make that happen?

@scottjenson 100%. That all checks out and I share many of those sentiments.

I'm mostly looking to only have to author things in one place and blast it out to multiple places. The manual carrying over to a bunch of places is annoying and tedious. I'd like to streamline that and then visit the channels to continue the conversation.

Anybody have any custom styles/extensions for making Mastodon more friendly and enjoyable?

How are you getting on with Mastodon?

After all of these months (or is it years now!?!?) it hasn't really stuck for me. I don't dislike it, but it hasn't become a place I'm particularly drawn to.

How are you liking it?

For the next month, 100% of all Atomic Design e-book sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders working in Gaza: https://shop.bradfrost.com/