Dylan Smith

This good boy got a terminal diagnosis today. 💔

Work offsite karaoke can only mean one thing

We didn’t realise how good we had it with Sublime Text.

This little tooltip copy might be my favourite thing I’ve done in almost four years at GitHub.

📼 My talk with Pavel from this year’s LGTM, GitHub’s internal design conference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Wh...

It’s weird that AI is terrible at writing code in my area of expertise but so good at writing code I know nothing about

z-index is a code smell

Slack channel names are the new domain names. I “acquired” #ui today, so stoked.

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Just got back from watching 28 Years Later. I could post a spoiler of the ending and nobody would ever believe me.

Went to Stockholm, ran a marathon

When the shower goes cold #eurovision

Hate to be on a flight with a number that sounds like the name of a documentary

“Haven’t you created a FigPal yet?” Ma’am, I am in my late 30s and want to spend as little time on this computer as possible.

pixel blindness noun the inability to see discrepancies between a user interface as it was designed and as it was built in code

Go ahead. Make the joke in the Zoom chat.

“Design engineering” without making design decisions is just frontend development.

I’ve been working in tech long enough that nothing surprises me anymore. Except when I meet someone in person who seemed like a dweeby little nerd on Zoom and I find out they secretly had strong muscles.

I never thought it would happen to me (shipping a sparkly icon to indicate AI features)

Me: Please make sure you’re inviting designers to your team kickoffs Me a thousand team kickoff invitations later: Oh no

If you think “tree surgeon” sounds like a weird job title, wait till you find out what the tree surgeons think of “software engineers.”

If you’ve used GitHub Copilot chat on GitHub.com/copilot recently, you may have noticed some new life breathed into the Copilot chat avatar with interactive 3D character animations. Let's do a deep dive 🧵on how we hacked it together for the front end 🤓’s out there…

Dog on bus

You should be able to buy standing room season tickets to music venues.

Guess whatttttt I'm hiring engineers for my team (accessibility engineering) and one of my immediate peers is also hiring for Primer, our design system! We are looking for earlier-in-career folks as Software Engineer IIs, to best complement and round out our teams. githubinc.jibeapply.com/jobs/3987

When other runners spit in public it’s disgusting but when I do it it’s fine

“As little design as possible” — Dieter Rams quiet quitting

I like to think I have above-average accessibility knowledge but I don’t know how software teams function without dedicated accessibility experts. There is so much nuance and so many unknown unknowns.

bsky.app is such an amazingly bad domain it’s a miracle this site ever caught on.

I’m using a profile photo from 2019 and I think it might just be too late to ever change it again.

✨ It me again! I’m hiring a Senior Product Design Manager to join our GitHub Design team, focusing on the tooling space. You’ll lead a talented and kind group of designers! If you’re a manager who values craft, quality, and innovation, this is a beautiful opportunity: 👉 gh.io/design-manag...

Celebrations ranked: 1. Snickers 2. Bounty 3. Galaxy Caramel 4. Twix 5. Mars 6. Milky Way 7. Maltesers 8. Galaxy (plain)

I ran a new 5K PB today and only _almost_ puked at the finish line.

This but for software

Ran for two hours in the freezing rain and high winds then ate an almond croissant in the bath, how was your Saturday morning?

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Honestly pretty satisfied with my attempt at naming all the TfL stations from memory but I know I’m about to be annoyed by a bunch of the ones I missed. london.metro-memory.com