@nerdy.dev 😭😤🤬 my heart goes out to you 🫶🏼 WTF nerdy.dev/ex-googler

Someone keeps trying to sign into my TikTok but they can’t and I know this because I keep getting pinged with two-factor authentication SMS requests. Is there a way to stop this?

There is only one major difference between cats and dogs that actually matter at the end of the day. One can easily jump on kitchen countertops and high up places and one can't haha 😆

Today’s the day!!! Can’t wait to welcome Loki into our home! 😻

"Finally, CMD/CTRL + R for variables! CTRL Var was built to give you many of the same renaming features available for layers - for variables." www.figma.com/community/pl...

I mean, why would you do it any other way?

I was sharing my screen while cloning our codebase and running npm install and the developer was like "WHOA...WAIT WHAT...Did that already finish building?!" Yah, that's the power of the new M4 Mac Mini baby! haha

FYI, @figma.com finally added keyboard shortcuts for boolean operations! #theMoreYouKnow💫

The worst part about trying to program as a designer is setting up the overly complex dev environment with all these damn dependencies and if one thing is out of wack shit doesn’t work. Not even AI is able to help me. I tried everything. I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong 😭

Can I rent-a-dev for an hour to break down all these god damn AI tools and answer my questions as I attempt to vibe code something into existence? I’ll pay you in friendship and small sums of money haha 😆 Also this should be a real business. Dev consulting for designers that want to code 👨‍💻

We’re getting a cat! 🐈‍⬛ It’s a local rescue and it’ll be here in about two weeks. The girls still have no idea, but they’re absolutely obsessed with cats and they’re gonna lose their freakin’ minds. Just look at this cutester!

I live for the exasperated “daaaaaad! 🙄” as I slightly annoy, embarrass, and humor my 3yo daughter on a daily basis 🤣

Time to teach myself Angular! Let me know if you have any resources to share, thanks!

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Ok, this is it. My magnum opus. 20 years designing and I think I can define “taste” in a single sentence. “Taste is intuition, sharpened by unrelenting practice and informed by evidence.” Are we any closer to not arguing about this anymore yet? 😜

Got the brand new Dell 4K monitor to go with my new M4 Mac mini. Just came out today! Will be here Friday www.dell.com/en-us/shop/d...

I feel like AI has weaponized FOMO.

I guess I’m obsessed with Fleetwood Mac. Just never took the time to listen to their full discography. Side note, I miss hearing actual singing with real instruments. So gooood

Can we SLOW THE F DOWN with all the AI slop getting announced literally every other day. Can like 10 different AI companies get together and make just one really good thing instead of 10 separate shitty things? kthxbai

4 inches of snow immediately followed by 9 inches of rain followed by 45mph wind gusts leading to flash freezing is literally the worst series of events ever in terms of New England weather. And the wind will be 30-50mph gusts until Wednesday! I hate it. Make it stop.

I’m gonna get brain rot if I spend more than 10 minutes on LinkedIn. Good god that site is insufferable

Thank me later music.apple.com/us/album/bac...

Yay! My daycare is increasing costs by 7%. I’m already paying $1800 a month.

Experiment with ChatGPT and a GPT web scraper to leverage a DS knowledge base. Review 72 design systems for a navigation component, then synthesize the findings into a research doc that addresses Visual Design, User Experience, Design Principles, Responsive Design, Content Design, and Localization.

Published a plugin! It allows you to copy CSS variables from Figma in either design or dev mode 🧑‍💻 www.figma.com/community/pl...

Worked with a couple figma advocates and the director of engineering at Figma for the past two days to figure out a difficult bug. We have a work around! That’s all that matters! The real fix is more complex and will take much longer to code, but kudos to the team and thanks for all the hard work!

The thing about using Figma as a designer is that you never quite know if you’re going down the right path with something or not. Especially as a designer of one. With programming it’ll almost always immediately tell you when you’ve made a terrible decision. More rules and structure can be nice

Worst halftime show in the history of football…and I like Kendrick

You just had to be there…

Dang I'm excited about new semantic attr() capabilities in CSS! I wrote a post about why this feature is so powerful, how it could change the way you build components, and how I would use it. Advanced attr() is rolling out in Chrome 133 starting next week 🥰 una.im/advanced-attr/

Ok. Who the hell pushed to prod on a Friday??!

“Transform how you work with Figma variables. VV turns complex variable relationships into an intuitive visual map, letting you see and manage all your variables in one infinite canvas.” - www.figma.com/community/pl...

Playstation Network (PSN) is down for the count 😩 status.playstation.com

Working for a tech company means you’re eventually going to have to have a conversation about what you’re going to use in your writing guidelines and remediating all the places that aren’t aligned. Is it: login/logout/log off, sign in/sign out, Log in/Log out, or Sign In/Sign Out

Moana has a god damn stranglehold on my kids. “Obsessed” is an understatement 😆

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I have this uncanny ability of sitting down to do some deep work in Figma, only to immediately find bugs. I then spend the next 30 min to an hour reporting them or discussing the issues with folks on the Figma team because I can't help myself, haha. Today's bug is broken keyboard layer nav support

Hot on the heels of Safari 18.3, Chrome 133, also now supports text-box-trim. Waiting on you Firefox! developer.chrome.com/release-note...

Um fuck yes Apple Music

I wish Celebrity Death Match was still around. I would love to see a “Ms. Rachel vs Blippi” battle to the death.

New season of Mythic Quest is giving me life

iOS 14 is only 5 years old. Came out in 2020. You would be amazed at how much of the web is a broken, and completely unusable mess on a browser that hasn’t seen any updates in only 4 years. Don’t know how I feel about this.

“The Sheets <> Variables plugin empowers designers to integrate dynamic data from Google Sheets directly into Figma by mapping spreadsheet tabs to variable collections, rows to variables, and columns to modes.” www.figma.com/community/pl...

"VariableScout The Essential Power Tool for Streamlined Variable Management. Effortlessly visualize, organize, and optimize your variables and nodes with various features designed to supercharge your workflow." - www.figma.com/community/pl...

"Creating successful Design System OKRs that drive adoption Getting an organization to care about adoption requires aligning goals and outcomes. We’ll show how to use OKRs effectively to drive adoption in both design and code." - designsystemdiaries.com/p/creating-s...?

AI transparency framework Deciding when and how to disclose our use of AI-based tools - uxdesign.cc/ai-transpare...

I’ve applied for a new job 👀 Send me all your good vibes 😎

If you’ve never read the paper, it’s a short but fascinating read. It’s focused on the dynamics of the AI industry at the time with the introduction of Meta’s Llama but is even more relevant today given DeepSeek.

Wait, I thought they brought back TikTok. Is it gone again? I went to go get it from the Apple Store, but it says it’s not available

@noworries.nz Hey! I'm trying to use your Figma Chrome plugin, but it seems incompatible with the latest version of UI3. I also have no idea how to export analytics using it. I heard Figma supports this feature now? Are you still actively developing this extension? Let me know, thanks!