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• Post #1867186

  Evenings like this 🧡

• Post #1867185

  In the other news got myself a new road bike today. The old bike served a good 12.000 km, but it now needs so many new parts that my plan is to fix the bare minimum to get it to a working state again and then try selling 🥹

• Post #1867183

  Just seen <div role="button" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="0"/>

• Post #1660722

  Working with these internet speeds over the past weeks have made me focus on improving the performance of everything I’ve touched at work. Also, reminded me of something that I wrote in April 11 years ago which somehow feels even more relevant in 2026: https://arielsalminen.com/2015/the-many-faces-of-the-web/

• Post #1347988

  too zorb

• Post #1089216

  Letting that @DavidDarnes get an early sneak peek of this thingy made me realize it needs proper docs website, even if I tried to resist it and dump it all onto .md files on GitHub. So yeah, here we are…

• Post #991414

  Built a Node.js + @11ty based analytics dashboard for the client’s design system today to track the adoption rate across production apps. Turned out to be useful already since we had no idea of some of the products already using the design system and/or still on pre-release versions. 😅

• Post #991413

  Happy to see the first community contribution (for docs!) land Elena and me not being the only person on the “contributors” list 🥹 https://github.com/getelena/elena

• Post #991412

  Just published a new version of Elena, v1.0.0-rc.8, which adds performance improvements while making the minified bundle size ~12% smaller: https://github.com/getelena/elena/releases/tag/%40elenajs%2Fcore%401.0.0-rc.8

• Post #991411

  I’ve written a new documentation page on “Rendering” and what Elena does behind the scenes because it’s probably a lot smarter than you’d expect from a tiny library: https://elenajs.com/components/rendering

• Post #991410

  Got some great news this week and looks like I’m all booked until early 2027 for client work. *needs to update the availability on the website*

• Post #991409

  It seems like all the random projects I ever build are born out of frustration. Elena started ~5 months ago because I wasn’t being taken seriously (probably since I am not a white male in this industry 🤷🏻‍♀️)

• Post #991408

  Just received two of these t-shirts in mail. 😍 https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy

• Post #991407

  It’s going well when you haven’t slept in two nights and have been crying your eyes out during the following days. I’m such an emotional wreck this week 😭

• Post #991406

  This week is turning better when I least expect it. 🧡

• Post #991405

  Did some major performance improvements and bug fixes for Elena last week. Technically we’re now at v1.0.0-rc.12 already, but this was the most significant set of changes: https://github.com/getelena/elena/releases/tag/%40elenajs%2Fcore%401.0.0-rc.11 We’re getting close to stable v1.0.0 soon. ☺️

• Post #991404

  I also improved the Elena Playground and made it support external stylesheets and CSS Module Scripts which deserved a live example as well: https://elenajs.com/playground/#css-module-scripts (and yeah, as the example suggests, https://design-system.club is built with Elena now 🧡)

• Post #775427

  I’m excited to announce the 1̶s̶t̶ 7th release candidate of Elena today! 🫶 Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything. Crafted with love and care using HTML, CSS & plain JS: https://elenajs.com

• Post #491122

  Had fun this morning building this thing:

• Post #453092

  *has written some draft docs*

• Post #453091

  Look at all those 💯s 😍

• Post #453090

  Has set up a tent in our living room because why not

• Post #453089

  Been working on some usage examples this morning. While this is not gonna cover everything, it’s still missing a few (like e.g. @11ty !)

• Post #453088

  Been working on improving the test coverage (*still*), fixing the last remaining issues (*I know, I know*), and writing documentation for https://elenajs.com. Things are starting to slowly stabilize. Maybe there will also be an *alpha* release out in the near-ish future… 🤞🏻

• Post #453087

  Found a bug in Firefox with CSS @scope and [attr=value], but now checked out the pre-release build and seems to be fixed there. So perhaps this won't exist soon anymore (in v149?). Minimal reproduction regardless: https://codepen.io/arielsalminen/full/raMazZV

• Post #453086

  Ok, figured I’ve been sitting on this project for a while now so decided to give test access to @DavidDarnes to tell me if it’s all shit and I should just throw it away 🤷🏻‍♀️ Also: **Am I the only one who feels like this when getting close to publishing a big project _(like every single time)?!_** 🫠

• Post #292740

  Kicking off 2026 at work finally. First up: finishing a job posting to find someone to help me with the current project.

• Post #292739

  Would you like to work with me? 👋🏻 I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team at Kesko and we’re looking for a nice & talented designer/developer to join us. https://arielsalminen.com/2026/hiring-a-design-engineer-for-kesko-design-system/

• Post #292738

  Solving the Cheese Crave™

• Post #292737

  This winter has reached a point where I’m like *oh, its only -18°C right now, that’s not too bad*