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dylanatsmith.com
Staff Design Engineer, GitHub Copilot Runner, South London https://dylanatsmith.com
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Hate to be on a flight with a number that sounds like the name of a documentary

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“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.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Go ahead. Make the joke in the Zoom chat.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

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…

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

Dog on bus

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 90 days ago • 27 comments

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

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 100 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

✨ 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...

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments