I find it funny that baseball coaches wear the same uniform as the players, even though they don’t play. Does that happen in any other sport?

I look forward to the day when people stop talking about AI and just build the great products people want.

Today, I gained a new level of respect for people who install drywall for a living.

I feel like there’s been a recent spike in survey requests for everything I do. I really don’t want to provide feedback about the 2x4s I bought, or the windshield trim adhesive, or the same bottle of body wash we buy every month. Just be satisfied that I’m a repeat customer. That’s my feedback.

I keep looking for promotion codes when I pay my son’s tuition bill, but I have yet to find one.

The more I use AI code editors, the more I want to learn code. I want to know what’s going on, not just try to find the right prompt.

I guess it’s time to open my own gluten free fried chicken restaurant.

I made a Figma plugin tonight with Cursor that exports an SVG replacing hex values with the assigned CSS variables. It’s super basic but helps remove a lot of manual find and replace work for illustrations. This allows colors to change automatically in light and dark modes. 🙌

I’m becoming more convinced that design system teams don’t belong in either the Eng or Design orgs. The problem is breaking the rigid EPD structure in most companies that dictates who funds the team.

Who are designers that sell cool prints? I'm looking for some unique stuff to decorate a dark blue/gray wall.

For as good as they are, graham crackers look incredibly unappetizing.

I consider myself to be fairly handy, but installing barn doors has broken me.

Ice glazed trees this morning in South Carolina

I need some inspiration for office decor and lighting that looks good for Zoom and training videos. Photos, links, and ideas appreciated.

The This is WCAG website got a facelift (thank god). It’s still one of my favorite resources for quick reference thisiswcag.com

This is WCAG

thisiswcag.com helps you build and test against the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) consistently.

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My friend Brian reminded me of this video yesterday and I love how well it shifts the accessibility perspective. youtu.be/9s3NZaLhcc4

Social Model Animation

YouTube video by Geoff Adams-Spink

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There’s nothing like the annual family group chat about Christmas gifts to change ads you’re served on social media to even more things you couldn’t care less about.

@figma.com seems to not be respecting the ordering of component property options recently. Anyone else seeing this problem?

Didn’t have “take kid to ER due to squirrel bite” on my end of year bingo card.

We’re consolidating our design system Figma libraries into one master library at Grammarly. I’m considering documenting the process here and then translating it into a blog post. Would anyone be interested in following along?

I need a day just to go through all the design system and accessibility stuff I’ve bookmarked while scrolling in the middle of the night when my brain wouldn’t turn off.

If you're into Figma and mode inheritance and things like that, you might like this post I wrote for the Grammarly blog. www.grammarly.com/blog/enginee...

Demystifying Figma’s Variable Mode Inheritance

The Grammarly Design team uses Figma to design the product experiences that help teams communicate and do their best work. Our design system team uses…

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