Ariel Salminen
@arielsalminen.com
Design (systems) engineer • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components, the web platform & my road cycling adventures.
📮 https://arielsalminen.com
📍 Helsinki, Finland
👩🏻🦰 She/her
📮 https://arielsalminen.com
📍 Helsinki, Finland
👩🏻🦰 She/her
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Ariel Salminen
@arielsalminen.com
· Mar 25
Ariel Salminen
Hello, I’m Ariel Salminen, a Design Systems Architect from Helsinki, Finland with 20 years of experience helping companies build tools for the web platform.
arielsalminen.com
New website launch day! 📮
I handcrafted a super simple new site for myself to better showcase what I do and have a future home for experiments I may want to tinker with.
Designed in the browser using HTML, CSS, and a tiny bit of plain JavaScript. Powered by @11ty.dev as usual:
arielsalminen.com
I handcrafted a super simple new site for myself to better showcase what I do and have a future home for experiments I may want to tinker with.
Designed in the browser using HTML, CSS, and a tiny bit of plain JavaScript. Powered by @11ty.dev as usual:
arielsalminen.com
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Bluesky friends, very sadly (for me) I need to sell my beloved Wilma. She’s a 1988 T25 VW Campervan, complete with checkerboard floor and fold out bed, recently serviced and MOT’d.
If you or anyone you know is interested please let me know - would love her to go to someone nice 🧡
If you or anyone you know is interested please let me know - would love her to go to someone nice 🧡
September 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Bluesky friends, very sadly (for me) I need to sell my beloved Wilma. She’s a 1988 T25 VW Campervan, complete with checkerboard floor and fold out bed, recently serviced and MOT’d.
If you or anyone you know is interested please let me know - would love her to go to someone nice 🧡
If you or anyone you know is interested please let me know - would love her to go to someone nice 🧡
My Raspberry Pi side project finally moving forward. Took a while to acquire every single part this thing needed 🤓
September 9, 2026 at 9:34 AM
My Raspberry Pi side project finally moving forward. Took a while to acquire every single part this thing needed 🤓
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feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post
1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
www.alilleybrinker.com
August 31, 2026 at 8:13 PM
feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post
Current status: fixing yet another bicycle (to sell it) 🤷🏻♀️
*I think the kids are getting slightly annoyed that I’ve turned our living room into a bike shop, basically*
*I think the kids are getting slightly annoyed that I’ve turned our living room into a bike shop, basically*
August 24, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Current status: fixing yet another bicycle (to sell it) 🤷🏻♀️
*I think the kids are getting slightly annoyed that I’ve turned our living room into a bike shop, basically*
*I think the kids are getting slightly annoyed that I’ve turned our living room into a bike shop, basically*
A new friend for the old bike just arrived
(…well, a part of it, anyway…)
(…well, a part of it, anyway…)
August 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
A new friend for the old bike just arrived
(…well, a part of it, anyway…)
(…well, a part of it, anyway…)
Anxiously waiting for a new bike frame to arrive today
(yeah… yet another side project 🤷🏻♀️)
(yeah… yet another side project 🤷🏻♀️)
August 17, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Anxiously waiting for a new bike frame to arrive today
(yeah… yet another side project 🤷🏻♀️)
(yeah… yet another side project 🤷🏻♀️)
Gathering parts for a new Raspberry Pi side project. The rest is still in transit 🤓
August 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Gathering parts for a new Raspberry Pi side project. The rest is still in transit 🤓
One of (OVHCloud’s) network links in Stockholm has decided to stop carrying packets over 1480 bytes overnight for an unknown reason & also blocks the error that would normally tell a device to send smaller ones 🙃
So a bunch of websites have just been dead for me since yesterday (Bluesky, Mastodon…)
So a bunch of websites have just been dead for me since yesterday (Bluesky, Mastodon…)
August 11, 2026 at 1:07 PM
One of (OVHCloud’s) network links in Stockholm has decided to stop carrying packets over 1480 bytes overnight for an unknown reason & also blocks the error that would normally tell a device to send smaller ones 🙃
So a bunch of websites have just been dead for me since yesterday (Bluesky, Mastodon…)
So a bunch of websites have just been dead for me since yesterday (Bluesky, Mastodon…)
Sold our car and somehow made profit doing that, at least compared to what I originally paid for it 🤷🚴🏻♀️
August 6, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Sold our car and somehow made profit doing that, at least compared to what I originally paid for it 🤷🚴🏻♀️
Got completely soaked on this ride. Literally had to stop and pour water out of my shoes a couple of times 🌊
July 22, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Got completely soaked on this ride. Literally had to stop and pour water out of my shoes a couple of times 🌊
On a bit of a summer break from work and this is what I’m doing instead: *nerding out about these matching red disc brake lockrings that I just installed on my bike* 🤓
July 20, 2026 at 6:26 PM
On a bit of a summer break from work and this is what I’m doing instead: *nerding out about these matching red disc brake lockrings that I just installed on my bike* 🤓
A random view from today’s bike ride. The piece on the underpass wall says “Girls are awesome” ❤️
July 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM
A random view from today’s bike ride. The piece on the underpass wall says “Girls are awesome” ❤️
Monday after work ride with 🧡.
(featuring a tiny friend who liked my bike 🐤)
(featuring a tiny friend who liked my bike 🐤)
June 22, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Monday after work ride with 🧡.
(featuring a tiny friend who liked my bike 🐤)
(featuring a tiny friend who liked my bike 🐤)
Did a bike ride around the archipelago near Turku, Finland. Such beautiful views. I honestly assumed riding across a bunch of islands would be mostly flat, but the elevation profile (and my legs) seem to disagree. 🚴🏻♀️😅
June 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Did a bike ride around the archipelago near Turku, Finland. Such beautiful views. I honestly assumed riding across a bunch of islands would be mostly flat, but the elevation profile (and my legs) seem to disagree. 🚴🏻♀️😅
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Rarely active here anymore, but dropping by to say that I will have availability for freelance web/dataviz accessibility work again soon:
- Reviews, audits
- Consulting, advice
- Training, talks, workshops
- Front-end dev
🫶🏻 Interested?
DM or [email protected]
#accessibility #datavizA11Y
- Reviews, audits
- Consulting, advice
- Training, talks, workshops
- Front-end dev
🫶🏻 Interested?
DM or [email protected]
#accessibility #datavizA11Y
May 15, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Rarely active here anymore, but dropping by to say that I will have availability for freelance web/dataviz accessibility work again soon:
- Reviews, audits
- Consulting, advice
- Training, talks, workshops
- Front-end dev
🫶🏻 Interested?
DM or [email protected]
#accessibility #datavizA11Y
- Reviews, audits
- Consulting, advice
- Training, talks, workshops
- Front-end dev
🫶🏻 Interested?
DM or [email protected]
#accessibility #datavizA11Y
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It's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us.
ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...
ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...
It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick
A while back I went to a tech meet-up and one of the talks was about being a woman in tech and I am finally ready to put into words why I sat through it so uncomfortably.
ohhelloana.blog
May 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
It's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us.
ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...
ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...
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ã = a with a toupee
á = it’s windy, toupee flyin up
à = ope wind changed direction
ă = where is this wind coming from
ą = ah shit it fell on the ground
â = well now it looks ridiculous
á = it’s windy, toupee flyin up
à = ope wind changed direction
ă = where is this wind coming from
ą = ah shit it fell on the ground
â = well now it looks ridiculous
May 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
ã = a with a toupee
á = it’s windy, toupee flyin up
à = ope wind changed direction
ă = where is this wind coming from
ą = ah shit it fell on the ground
â = well now it looks ridiculous
á = it’s windy, toupee flyin up
à = ope wind changed direction
ă = where is this wind coming from
ą = ah shit it fell on the ground
â = well now it looks ridiculous
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I’ve been working with a client who runs a lot of social media and ad campaigns, so we’ve been deploying the experimental `No-Vary-Search HTTP` header. It’s amazing to see it actually working! Read all about it here: csswizardry.com/2026/05/bett...
Better Browser Caching with No-Vary-Search – CSS Wizardry
No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.
csswizardry.com
May 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I’ve been working with a client who runs a lot of social media and ad campaigns, so we’ve been deploying the experimental `No-Vary-Search HTTP` header. It’s amazing to see it actually working! Read all about it here: csswizardry.com/2026/05/bett...
Think I’m gonna call it a week and go back cycling. 🚵🏻♀️
May 8, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Think I’m gonna call it a week and go back cycling. 🚵🏻♀️
Pretty test runner output from the Kesko Design System. Colors inherited from my terminal theme. 👩🏻💻
*Alt:* Terminal screenshot of the Kesko Design System test runner, with a coral pink ASCII-art “K” logo. All 87 test files and 2,831 tests across 13 test suites passed in 42.66 seconds.
*Alt:* Terminal screenshot of the Kesko Design System test runner, with a coral pink ASCII-art “K” logo. All 87 test files and 2,831 tests across 13 test suites passed in 42.66 seconds.
May 8, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Pretty test runner output from the Kesko Design System. Colors inherited from my terminal theme. 👩🏻💻
*Alt:* Terminal screenshot of the Kesko Design System test runner, with a coral pink ASCII-art “K” logo. All 87 test files and 2,831 tests across 13 test suites passed in 42.66 seconds.
*Alt:* Terminal screenshot of the Kesko Design System test runner, with a coral pink ASCII-art “K” logo. All 87 test files and 2,831 tests across 13 test suites passed in 42.66 seconds.
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“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.”
The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”,
by @wil.to 👏
The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”,
by @wil.to 👏
Google’s Prompt API
No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”
wil.to
May 6, 2026 at 8:28 PM
“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.”
The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”,
by @wil.to 👏
The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”,
by @wil.to 👏
Reposted by Ariel Salminen
Happy 23rd Birthday CSS Zen Garden!
In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden.
#WebDesignHistory
In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden.
#WebDesignHistory
May 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Happy 23rd Birthday CSS Zen Garden!
In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden.
#WebDesignHistory
In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden.
#WebDesignHistory
Had to take a slightly longer lunch break today to get this thing unboxed 😍
May 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Had to take a slightly longer lunch break today to get this thing unboxed 😍
*don’t mind me I am just here collecting old Shimano parts from all over to fix my bike*
(dura ace bits are for the new bike though)
(dura ace bits are for the new bike though)
May 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
*don’t mind me I am just here collecting old Shimano parts from all over to fix my bike*
(dura ace bits are for the new bike though)
(dura ace bits are for the new bike though)