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Ariel Salminen
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Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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Apr 10, 2026
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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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 🧡)
(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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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. ☺️
We’re getting close to stable v1.0.0 soon. ☺️
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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Apr 01, 2026
This week is turning better when I least expect it. 🧡
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
@ariel@front-end.social
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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
https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Mar 28, 2026
@crisverstraeten I seem to agree 😅
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
@ariel@front-end.social
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Mar 27, 2026
@jonikorpi Thanks! Took like a month for the docs alone to write them 😅
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Mar 27, 2026
Modified slightly still to put the “How the DOM is updated” at the top.
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
@ariel@front-end.social
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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
https://elenajs.com/components/rendering
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
@ariel@front-end.social
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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
https://github.com/getelena/elena
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Mar 26, 2026
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. 😅
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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
@ariel@front-end.social
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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
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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Mar 05, 2026
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…
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Feb 28, 2026
Had fun this morning building this thing:
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Feb 26, 2026
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)?!_** 🫠
Also: **Am I the only one who feels like this when getting close to publishing a big project _(like every single time)?!_** 🫠
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Minimal reproduction regardless:
https://codepen.io/arielsalminen/full/raMazZV
![Firefox 148 bug with CSS @scope and [attr=value]](https://shots.codepen.io/username/pen/raMazZV-800.jpg?version=1772103619)
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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… 🤞🏻
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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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 !)
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Feb 19, 2026
@meduz @romanvesely Ja, is
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Feb 19, 2026
Took it a bit further.
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Feb 16, 2026
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Feb 15, 2026
*has written some draft docs*
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Feb 03, 2026
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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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:
Here's a glimpse into what’s happening:
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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Jan 20, 2026
Solving the Cheese Crave™
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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/
https://arielsalminen.com/2026/hiring-a-design-engineer-for-kesko-design-system/
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Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
front-end.social
Ariel Salminen
@ariel@front-end.social
Design systems architect • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components & the web platform.
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@ariel@front-end.social
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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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