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👨‍💻 Principal Design System Engineer 🥃 Carb & cocktail fan account 🏔️ Boulder, CO 🅰️ Arsenal FC ⚽️ Il calcio é della gente
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I have yet to read an article stating this, but I figured I’d look it up to save y’all some time. Glass melts somewhere between 1400°-1600°C (2552°-2912°F). Apple products will necessarily transition to be hands-free devices. 🔥

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Continuing with my ice cream hobby by learning to make cones.

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This must be the pilot episode for their upcoming reality TV show.

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Kierkegaard said “Purity of heart is to will one thing.” It’s become a mantra for me. Life is chaotic and distracting. Focusing on the good is purifying.

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Busy day. Constant context switching. Came home and made pasta. Refreshed.

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Spinning up a new app from scratch with some sparkles is a cute trick. ✨ But refactoring and maintaining a codebase are still the most expensive (and exhausting) parts of software development — that feels like the biggest opportunity for LLMs.

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Enjoying a mojito and Marissa’s flowers. 🍹💐

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We made it through another one. Hanging out with this goofball. Cheers, friends! 🥃

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Doing some important research to compare my strawberry sorbet and gelato.

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I was featured on the latest episode of the Design Systems Podcast, discussing Spectrum, Adobe's Design System. I've distilled down my thoughts from it into 5 points (a thread) www.designsystemspodcast.com/episodes/epi...

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Your ability to understand complex systems and describe nuanced problems is at an all-time premium. Deeply understand your context, communicate the details clearly, and drive toward good solutions. That’s always been the job for designers, engineers, and PMs. But now it’s much more important.

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Finally. It’s about damn time. ⏰

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Pistachio gelato turned out well. 🍨

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Making gelato for tomorrow — a first attempt. But I’ve made several batches of ice cream now and the process is pretty similar. The main difference is: Ice cream wants the richness of the base to be the main character, whereas gelato wants the additive (fruit, nuts, etc) to be center stage.

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Arsenal deny Barcelona a third consecutive Champions League and are European champions for the first time since 2007. #UWCL

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1-0 Arsenal! Arsenal Women are champions of Europe!!! Let’s gooooo!!!! 🔴⚪️

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Anyone have a Pocket alternative they like? Pocket was excellent because it did one thing very well, and I’ll miss it. www.theverge.com/news/672924/...

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Forza Napoli!

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If there’s one thing I could dictate in Slack, it would be that all channel and emoji names must use snake_case.

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I have yet to find an effective replacement for writing with a pen (preferably Micron 0.5) on graph paper to collect and organize my thoughts. I need that tacit element to engage.

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Congrats to Palace on the FA Cup. Historic moment for the club. 💐🏆🍻🥂🍾👏

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This lil guy accidentally hopped into our window well and got stuck. It was jumping up while I was on a call. I eventually convinced it to scurry into a dough tub and set him free. 😍

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Hard day for folks at GitHub and Microsoft. Sorry, friends. That sucks. 🫂

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Cursor is pretty good, but tbh, I was expecting more cursing.

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We're hiring a Design Technologist at Xero.com to supercharge our prototyping capabilities and bring ideas to life through expert front-end and design skills. If this sounds like your kind of role, check it out! Locations: New Zealand, Australia Type: Onsite, Hybrid, Remote Links in thread 🧵

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