5 years at @discord.com as of today! 🥳

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

If you’re a React Native expert and want to help us make @discord.com better, hit me up 🤙 we’re looking!

had a daughter the other day, we’re big fans ❤️

we (@discord.com) rewrote our color token system to support these new themes, and its exciting 👀 in short: color tokens are defined using a constraint-based system where colors are defined with contrast ratios. change a base color and all affected tokens update in all themes, preserving contrast ✨

Whoever did the lighting in Kingdom Come II deserves whatever the award for really good lighting is

angry guy with amnesia:

$500 pack of cards casually sitting on the shelf 🫣

Not the Canada commercial lmaoooooo

my wife said “I think they can make a comeback” two seconds before that last interception. Sorry about that (or you’re welcome)

long overdue, but I did it 🫡

Somehow "Elon Musk Is a Genius" and "Elon Musk Doesn't Know How Hands Work" are being said by a lot of the same people

hearing a lot of good things about TikTok recently, downloading it to see what all the fuss is about 🙏

[as the Xenomorph extends its inner jaw to kill me]: oooooo big stretch!

In the meantime, as a reader: don’t trust any articles attributed to “staff,” and don’t trust any articles that don’t include quotes from scientists completely uninvolved in the original publication. Science is a gradual, meandering, back and forth process; sometimes we have to let it play out.

Which brings us to the scicomm point: we gotta get better at distinguishing between “here’s someone’s speculative idea that they just published” and “here’s a new discovery.” This is the former.

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

the worst part about being a parent is that even the most cookie-cutter, clichéd story can make you cry if it happens to be about kids or parenting it’s like a cheat code the world uses on you that you can’t disable

is there any existing research on what the best contrast ratio for readability is? WCAG gives a lower bound but there’s also such a thing as too much contrast so I’m curious if there’s been any formal studies on where the sweet spot is

I try to be as honest as I can with my kids, and sometimes that’s hard to reconcile with the fact that we as a society have decided to collectively lie about a magical, immortal old man who sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake

opening our monorepo's VSCode workspace was totally killing my CPU with rg processes. It brought my M3 Max to a halt for like five minutes. Turns out it was the Tailwind extension I had installed for another project trying to find a tailwind.config.* file in our monorepo 🫠

can you guess what my favorite album was this year

One tension here is that current gen LLMs can have a ~high success rate for accurately predicting what a real answer would be (depending on your topic), so there’s undeniably some utility there but knowing when it’s NOT accurate is increasingly difficult which means you always need to be skeptical

Bluesky connections on Discord are live! 🦋

Working on our color system and a novel approach we've started exploring for colors is to define them in terms of constraints: instead of picking colors for every token/theme, you specify a reference color and contrast ratio. The system does the rest. this has a few cool advantages 👀

If you want a really good deep dive into testing with screen readers, I strongly advise reading this guide by @sarasoueidan.com www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing... #a11y #screenReaders #accessibility

one day at Disney World 😪

see what happens when you use React Native guys

It’s been years and Figma still doesn’t support publishing a branch of a library 😭 it makes it so difficult to explore and test changes in our Design System color token libraries, anyone here have an alt solution?

recently sewed a plushie based on a drawing my 5yo made as a birthday present for one of his close friends 🪡

ConcernedApe preserving the sanity of millions of adults with that 1.6 update timing 🤘

Shout out to @joshwcomeau.com's principles. He closed his 135K Twitter account, despite it being a major marketing tool for his content and courses. He spent his final days informing his followers about the election before closing it and moving here. Protest isn't always convenient.

A small thread on some of the small details we built into our mobile segmented control component at Discord. These are subtle details but I’m a strong believer that polish like this can make all the difference 🧵

I expect we’ll see even more tech leaders emboldened to drop the facade and make it clear they value their myopic vision of progress and self-interests over all else; there’s no stigma anymore in saying you’re voting for lower taxes or less regulation even if it means gutting basic human rights

I’m despondent and at this point I don’t see any practical path forward for protecting my family that doesn’t involve making every attempt to leave this country 😔 it seems like even the most liberal states won’t be able to protect people from the authoritative federal policies that are imminent

if you need a distraction, here’s a gorilla body slamming its siblings at the Atlanta Zoo today

oh hello everyone, I just got the memo that we’re apparently doomscrolling here now 🫡

yeah, my product has nine nines of availability. 0.999999999%

making my triumphant bsky return with some Pokemon card pics

mixed media collage, integrating foil paper and my bespoke CMYK pen plotter prints

yeah, my product has nine nines of availability. 0.999999999%

Want to come work with me on design systems and accessibility @discord? My team is hiring! https://discord.com/jobs/6751492002

Want to come work with me on design systems and accessibility @discord? My team is hiring! https://discord.com/jobs/6751492002

hey it’s me, your 7th favorite Sveltey Frontend Influencer

@pfrazee.com can you add unstable_pressDelay to the Pressable items in scrollable lists so it doesn’t trigger the pressed state when you’re just scrolling 💃130 is a good number

Post your best Magna-Tile castle

this is the most depression era snack I’ve ever seen. This is something grandma makes right before your dust bowl farm is repossessed

me logging on in the morning to post relentlessly to rebuild my twitter clout