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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @ariel@front-end.social

So while I am waiting for the bike to actually ship to this neck of the woods (in 1-2 weeks?), I am just admiring this bit of detail. …and yeah, got the same color as in the photo because seemingly Arielle can only have red bikes now 🚵🏻‍♀️

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Just seen

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @beseku@mastodon.design

@beseku@mastodon.design The problem is that I only bought it today, don’t actually have it yet. Seemingly has now shipped though. It is a red Wilier Verticale SLR though to replace my old red Wilier (I am boring like that, only red bikes allowed 😂)

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

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 🥹

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 24, 2026

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/

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 21, 2026

Evenings like this 🧡

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 10, 2026

too zorb

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 06, 2026

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 🧡)

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 06, 2026

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. ☺️

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Apr 01, 2026

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

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @ArthurClemens@todon.nl

@ArthurClemens That means a lot to me, thank you! @rachel

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 31, 2026

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 😭

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 30, 2026

Just received two of these t-shirts in mail. 😍

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 28, 2026

Replying to @crisverstraeten@mastodon.social

@crisverstraeten I seem to agree 😅

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 28, 2026

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 🤷🏻‍♀️)

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 27, 2026

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*

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place

@jonikorpi Thanks! Took like a month for the docs alone to write them 😅

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @ariel@front-end.social

Modified slightly still to put the “How the DOM is updated” at the top.

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 27, 2026

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

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 27, 2026

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

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 26, 2026

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

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @200ok@mastodon.social

@200ok Just did this yesterday 😅

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 26, 2026

Built a Node.js + @11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev 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. 😅

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @ariel@front-end.social

To get slightly more context, read also my article on Progressive Web Components (just published!): https://arielsalminen.com/2026/progressive-web-components/

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 25, 2026

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

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Mar 05, 2026

Letting that @DavidDarnes@mastodon.design 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…

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 28, 2026

Had fun this morning building this thing:

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 26, 2026

Ok, figured I’ve been sitting on this project for a while now so decided to give test access to @DavidDarnes@mastodon.design 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)?!_** 🫠

mastodon.design

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 26, 2026

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

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 23, 2026

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… 🤞🏻

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 21, 2026

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@neighborhood.11ty.dev !)

neighborhood.11ty.dev

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 19, 2026

Replying to @meduz@m.nintendojo.fr

@meduz @romanvesely Ja, is

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 19, 2026

Replying to @ariel@front-end.social

Took it a bit further.

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 18, 2026

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

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 16, 2026

Look at all those 💯s 😍

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 15, 2026

*has written some draft docs*

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 14, 2026

I am not addicted to block blast, I am not addicted to block blast, I am not addicted to block blast,

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 13, 2026

I should really update this page at some point 😅 https://elenajs.com

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 13, 2026

Getting somewhere after spending the whole day on moving this thing forward.

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 12, 2026

Based on last week’s color research (think I posted a huge screenshot of this), I’ve now built a tool for managing all those colors and generating more consistent color palettes moving forward. So much fun!

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 09, 2026

Just spent two hours migrating away from all google & amazon services. 90% of this time was spent on figuring out how to actually delete organization on google’s admin console (I hate that UI even more now).

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 04, 2026

Working on naming guidelines and design tokens architecture today. I’ve produced so much content that my brain is now mush and it’s barely past noon

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 03, 2026

Replying to @ariel@front-end.social

This is where I feel like being neurodivergent becomes a genuine superpower. Spotting patterns and creating structure across massive datasets. 🤓

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Feb 03, 2026

We’re currently working on revised foundations for the new Kesko Design System and I’m researching the existing color systems + their usage across various products and contexts. Super fascinating work given the scale of the organization. 😍

Here's a glimpse into what’s happening:

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Jan 31, 2026

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

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Jan 20, 2026

Solving the Cheese Crave™

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Jan 20, 2026

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/

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Ariel Salminen @ariel@front-end.social · Jan 19, 2026

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

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