@sturobson@front-end.social

Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 26, 2026

Ahoy hoy!

I'll be available from mid-July for new client work and I can help you and your team with:

Front-End Dev.
Design Token Architecture
Design Systems, tooling, processes & component libraries 
Digging into your legacy front-end code

Let's chat!

https://www.alwaystwisted.com

🙏🖤

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 12, 2026

Your codebase is full of reasons. Every hack, workaround, temporary fix tells a story. The Dig unearths that story, then gives you a prioritised plan to improve safely while you keep shipping. https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/introducing-the-dig-front-end-code-archaeology-as-a-service 🙏🖤

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 05, 2026

Ethans first university undergrads open day tomorrow.

What is time‽

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 05, 2026

What can you get your favourite person (or yourself) when they're a huge Labyrinth fan??

The complete set of ('vaulted') Funko Pop figures that I'm selling.

https://ebay.us/m/Ui2gkt

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 05, 2026

… and the winner of the 2026 World Cup Team photos goes to … Norway

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7333438/2026/06/04/norway-world-cup-viking-photo/ [paywall]

The Athletic

Inside the making of Norway’s ‘Viking’ photo for World Cup

Some might assume the image is AI but the photographer, David Yarrow, explains to The Athletic how it came about

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 05, 2026

From The Archives: Styling The Gap with CSS

CSS gap decorations are here!

No more hacking pseudo elements or writing extra markup. Just simple, powerful rules for styling gaps in grids and flex layouts.

https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/styling-the-gap-with-css

🙏🖤

Always Twisted

Styling The gap with CSS

Style the bits between your flexbox or grid with a new, intuitive CSS feature rather than relying on magic numbers and pseudo elements using the new gap decoration CSS

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 05, 2026

listening to the new Evanescence album, dreaming that it's 2003 again.

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 04, 2026

Hello friends

I’m on the lookout for my next client

I’m looking for part-time/full-time projects and I can help you with

- front-end development / architecture
- design systems consultancy & development
- design tokens integrations, set-ups, tooling
- front-end archeology

https://www.alwaystwisted.com

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 04, 2026

nah, nah-n-n-nah, nah-nah, nah-a nah.

Metallica released the album Load 30 years ago today.

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 04, 2026

Do you realise, Janet, that in modern society, there is almost no need to leave the house?

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 03, 2026

Faith No More released their "Album of the year" 29 years ago today.

Here's The Spice Girls introducing them on Top Of The Pops where they performed Ashes to Ashes

https://youtu.be/l4BriOeeVcc

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 03, 2026

ReliCSS is becoming quite the little suite of tools for front-end archeology … finally added a link to it from my sites main navigation too.

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 03, 2026

You've inherited a codebase and wondered what media queries are being used and how old they could be?

Introducing media query palaeontologist (the name needs work) as part of the ReliCSS front-end archeologists toolkit

https://www.alwaystwisted.com/relicss/media-query-palaeontologist

🙏🖤

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 02, 2026

"There is no such thing as a new idea."

‘Escape from New York’ – Zack Snyder Directing Remake of John Carpenter Classic

just fucking stop remaking everything already.

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Jun 01, 2026

… I could do with quite a bit of coffee at the moment.

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · May 11, 2026

the black and white footage of its fateful last voyage made a younger me think this was a lot bigger than it actually is

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5r0yydl2o

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @sturobson@front-end.social

… just need to finish this years binge re-watch of Succession first.

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · May 06, 2026

An hour long prequel to The Bear?

Yes please.

https://disneyplus.com/en-GB/browse/entity-a28327ab-0812-4da4-ad69-63844e206092

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · May 05, 2026

💔 Front-End Developer Seeking Meaningful Contracts

Looking for a new partner to elevate your next project?

I specialise in front-end architecture and design systems, crafting beautiful user experiences & enhancing legacy code.

Let’s make something amazing together!

stu@alwaystwisted.com

🙏🖤

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Apr 24, 2026

"Friday, I tried the experiment: let Claude build our component library from our team’s Figma file.
Monday, I ran Lighthouse."

Before: 187KB, LCP 1.2s, TBT 120ms.
After: 524KB, LCP 3.4s, TBT 410ms.

https://www.designsystemscollective.com/ai-built-it-in-1-hour-lighthouse-gave-me-43-6f88e5c23d6b

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Apr 23, 2026

⭐ New Blogpost ⭐

Design Token naming conventions explained.

It covers the 3-tier model, 5 common naming patterns (CPM, OPM, tier-based, context-first), plus practical rules for handling variants, states, and modes.

Make your tokens scalable from day one.

https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-token-naming-conventions

🙏🖤

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Apr 22, 2026

⭐ available for client work ⭐

Front-end developer & Design Systems consultant with 15 years experience building component libraries, modernising legacy codebases, writing docs & launching new projects

Let's fix your tech debt or create something new

stu@alwaystwisted.com

🙏🖤

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Apr 21, 2026

nice

https://grid.iamkate.com

grid.iamkate.com

National Grid: Live

Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @matuzo@front-end.social

@matuzo a flight of their beers and some fries at da brabantse aap https://maps.app.goo.gl/nXs8VZYePNacJTnC9

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @leaverou@front-end.social

@leaverou@front-end.social I also took a look at what a Sass mixin would create (and how that compiled CSS would effect the HTML)

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Mar 12, 2026

Replying to @sturobson@front-end.social

I wrote about how I implemented adding the baselines status web component to #11ty (#BuildAwesome) here https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/adding-baseline-status-to-my-eleventy-site

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Mar 06, 2026

Adding the baseline status web component to my (awesome eleventy) website so I can add it to articles as and when needed with a shortcode.

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Stu Robson @sturobson@front-end.social · Feb 24, 2026

🎉 Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

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