steffanwilliams

@elonmusk Tesla have just discontinued my RWD Model Y, a month after I bought it. Any chance I could get a free upgrade to the long range version? 😄 Worth a try, eh!

@blvdmitry Because, you’re right, “destructive” definitely has more of a feature link than originally intended.

@blvdmitry I’ve definitely shifted to using “critical” recently; seems more agreed upon! 😄

Years later, I'm still thinking that Braid has the best color naming approach across all design systems I saw and Reshaped color token naming was hugely inspired by it seek-oss.github.io/braid-design-s…

@blvdmitry I don’t recall anything being very “feature specific”, that was the purpose of it in the first place. Although it’s probably a little outdated to newer systems, given we started work on it in 2016!

@steffanwilliams I personally like the naming here more since it’s less tied to a specific feature, even though we still use the same naming as 5 years ago at Booking

@blvdmitry Unfortunately not any time soon, but I’ll gladly take you up on that offer when I can get out there! Would be so great to see all the progress.

@steffanwilliams Are you visiting Amsterdam sometimes? We should show you the new biq! 😄

It's so exciting to see our Design System at Booking.com grow from just a few people to more than 20 people over the past few years. We finally got to a phase with a graduate developer joining our team this year as a part of the internship program. And I've just learned that we have also opened applications for the 2024 summer internship 🔥 jobs.booking.com/careers/job?do…

@blvdmitry This brings me back. 😂

One thing I’m very grateful for in my current situation is that I don’t actually need to find the right values for the whole palette. I only need the semantic token layer which means sometimes I can just pick the correct lightness with an absolute value and then adjust the values relative to it based on the color brightness and it should work. In theory 😂

This has escalated quickly. Trying to figure out the closest I can get to good looking semantic colors while still relying on HSL and doing automatic normalizing. So I've taken base colors from multiple public color palettes and experimenting with random ideas

@blvdmitry Oh, you know me! Snailing it up. I’ll do anything to not mix the two! 😜

@steffanwilliams Are you a snail or are you using css in js? 😄

Everyone a few years ago: Here is how we moved to css-in-js to support theming with React providers Everyone today: Here is how we moved to css variables to support theming without React providers Me: 🐌

@grxnt Not every landlord is as stupid as me; I’m sure. 😂😂

@steffanwilliams But you didn’t lose? It increased in value and you were always going to have to pay the mortgage… some renter just helped you out a little so you had to pay less than you expected

You should only be allowed to rent a place out until a mortgage is paid off and then you have to sell it or live in it, any profits should be shared evenly among you and all the tenants that lived there

@grxnt I did, it’s just hard to fit into tweets. Bought for 117. Mortgage was £200 a month. To switch to BTL, increased to £650 a month. Rent was £350 a month, and then management fees were £50 a month. Then taxes. I’d have been better off without renting it, and leaving it empty.

@grxnt Yeah, and I’m saying I was losing not profiting! 😜

@steffanwilliams That’s the point though, i don’t think people should own multiple homes to rent out and profit from others who can’t afford a deposit (of course there are exceptions)

@grxnt I had the worst mortgage rate of all time, by the way, so I don’t know how normal this is. I just had it locked in at a huge loss for a BTL. 😞

@steffanwilliams In my hypothetical world, aye 😂 Let’s say you lived in it for 10 years and someone rented it for 6 months… they’d only get a portion that equals there time there - so probably not a lot to you but a nice sun for them especially if they rented lots of places for the past 10yr

@grxnt But I’d still share the 10k with them even though I lost?

@steffanwilliams Nope, cause you still get the value of the house back right (if you bought for 100k, you still have 100k) that someone else has mostly paid off But they’d get a share of the profit so it’s an investment for everyone (and they can potentially use that towards their deposit)

@grxnt I think ultimately I lost money. I bought for 117, solid for 127, but over the course of renting it out, was losing £300 a month.

@gabaiel @endesignonline Book DLC? Genius.

@endesignonline People do it for games so… maybe shoot your shot? 😁

Do you think anyone would buy a book that’s about 62% finished? 🤔 Asking for a friend. 😂

@endesignonline Steff: Put down the phone, you've had enough migraines recently! 😛

Laying in bed @ 10pm. BF: Aren’t you gonna go write your book? Me: I am. 📲