Little Bits: Issue #36 For April 2026
Fresh off the digital press, a message on being overwhelmed, grateful, turn bits into opportunities and endless shiny new little bits to discover.
Inverted themes with light-dark()
daverupert.comWe rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token values in a single stylesheet. That’s fine until you have multiple kilobytes of duplicate definitions. To get around the performance problems we built two separate stylesheets –which is also not great– but my coworker Zacky found a good trick with <link disabled> to make it tolerable. Ultimately, we wanted to offer a single stylesheet for our human (and agent) friends to control theming.