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I'm really sorry this is my contribution/comment atm, I'm very interested in this stuff, but I am having a hell of a time reading this. Even if you keep the font I can't figure if some increased letter-spacing would help, really though I need some line-spacing and paragraph margin bottom for the love of god it's a contrasty text wall blur and I can't focus :( I'm getting old I guess, coding since the late 90s, and here we are finally the point my optometrist warned me about that I'll need glasses soon lol

Our tokens are integrated into the designer’s tooling and we have a build pipeline that allows them to update the frontend with minimal developer supervision, which has been a huge time saver and QoL improvement for both developers and designers.

Like did you integrate into figma, or write a gui for them, or something else?

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(I really don't mean to "take the piss" as the British say... but I have worked before with a CMS architected to be a static site publishing tool called OpenText Web Site Management, formerly Red Dot I think, it's like 20 years old or something. It just gets me when being "ahead of the curve" has caught up to something some Germans made that long ago.)

It's a bit late on a Sunday night for me, but that said..

It strikes me as a bit odd that it automatically assumes you want alpha transparency if the percentages do not sum 100%. I can't say I'd feel like I have some argument for why not. Maybe it's just my gut feeling that is like, transparency is so much more declarative elsewhere like "rgbA". I would have probably guessed it would be white or black by default.

It also strikes me as odd that you have to add a "p2" color/parameter called "transparent" if you just want to make a color a bit transparent. Like if you're going to automatically just force transparency as the default thing to choose for two colors which don't sum as 100%, then why not do something similar here, default the third parameter so I can just do `color-mix(in srgb, blue 20%)`

We did this recently due to some changes in our situation for about the last 10 months, after about 3-4 years of prime. Bought a lot less stuff in general I think, and they still had free shipping options when we did. Just had to plan ahead and adjust our mindset, saved 80$ (CAD).

Interesting comment regarding voting with your wallet and choosing Apple for the software. The hardware guys seems really unhappy with Apple's "walled garden".

half an hour... wow, well if you find something that easy let me know.

If you want to specify your supported browsers and utilize transpiling (babel), maybe do some image minification (svgo), compile using the latest sass module features (dart sass), create separate script bundles for required/deferred JS with revision hashes (rev), dynamically generate test/demo HTML files and test them (backstopjs) ... I can't imagine there is a system out there that can handle even half of those things so easily. I always assumed I would need to tell the system what to do.

If you do decide to go looking around at Gulp again, for myself after reading a few articles on Gulp setups I googled for "github gulpfile.js" to see what others had done as well and that helped.

I'm not sure if I'm a dinosaur or not, but for "old fashioned" HTML+CSS+JS static builds I've rolled my own Gulp setup that does what I tell it to. It's an investment of a couple days I'm sure, but have yet to just try Webpack to see how well it works for that purpose too, can anyone else comment?

Being stuck in Visual Studio 2019 right now for other reasons, I've been using some of it's "Lib Man" client-side library installers to help reduce the amount of gulp required too. Basically all your vendor/polyfill "lib" can just be brought and managed with a couple of clicks.

Very cool. I suppose in hindsight I think the guy was talking about those elevated highway overpasses and/or on/off ramps, not exactly nice new suspension bridges :) Anyway thanks for the details.

Someone mentioned in a comment recently on the Venezuela protests, how some of the highways we saw in pictures packed with people were not necessarily designed to support the standing weight of people shoulder to shoulder.

And yet, in so many movies, bridges in NYC are filled with people and/or military vehicles going one way or another. I wonder if they were tasked with actually making sure the bridges could support a city evacuation or massive protest.