siddharth ☻

@sid.st

staff design systems engineer @github.com + sometimes https://ui-devtools.com 🛜 https://sid.st 📍amsterdam

then: we are having a hard time adopting this new web feature because browser support is not good yet now: we are having a hard time adopting this new web feature because LLM support is not good yet

the route to the new github office is really fun because i bike past the old office and the my older codesandbox office to get there

Street view of Amsterdam with tram tracks in the foreground and a row of narrow, historic buildings on the right. People are walking and cycling along the sidewalk, and a tram stop with shelters is visible. The sky is partly cloudy, and some buildings feature gabled facades and decorative architectural details.A calm canal in Amsterdam lined with tall, narrow brick buildings on the right and leafy green trees on the left, with boats moored along both sides and a partly cloudy blue sky above.

i need google to understand people don’t just casually load directions to a different country and start moving in that direction what a wild notification

Meldingen

Directions to Lisbon?
From RAI to Lisbon using Google Maps

something i’ve always wanted to try is to build a css language extension (like sass/less were) now that you “no longer need to have skills”, i might actually be able to do that

(cross post) i don’t want to talk to agents all day to work on 10 features in parallel my dream setup is i brainstorm with AI for 30 mins in the morning to plan and send it to work on 1 thing and then maybe 30 mins in the afternoon to review and merge is this a thing yet?

an easy win, if you work in a big company, is to keep a log of all the good discussions you contributed to (issues, slack threads, review comments), things that are not explicitly “shipping” buuut if you start optimising for those discussions, you lose them

real ones know that you shouldn’t take days off during holidays and just relax because everyone is on their break and then take the first 2 weeks of the year off when everyone is back 😛

some dude on twitter: If you’re taking a break for the holidays your ngmi.

i really dislike Sprints because you start work with a soon-due deadline already looming over you and it's hard to predict how my week will go, some days i get stuck on things and get very little finished, usually followed by a day when i get 3 days of work done in one day

father in law telling about dangers of lifestyle escalation how do i tell him i know it all too well all my posts on twitter used to get likes and i got used to certain level of engagement. now it’s just not the same on either bluesky or twitter so i rarely post

was looking for accessible hover card implementations chadcn docs for hovercard: Radix Ul powered - Battle-tested accessibility meanwhile radix ui hovercard: The hover card is intended for sighted users only, the content will be inaccessible to keyboard users.

chadcn hovercard docs:

Radix Ul powered - Battle-tested accessibility and positioning logicRadix UI Hovercard docs: The hover card is intended for sighted users
only, the content will be inaccessible to keyboard users.