Mihkel Eidast

Mihkel Eidast

@mihkel.eida.st

🇪🇪 Design Systems Architect @ Telia Estonia Design systems, accessibility, front-end. When I'm not working, I'm at the movies. eida.st letterboxd.com/risker github.com/mihkeleidast

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Alan B Smith
@alanbsmith.bsky.social

This is the best way to describe how I feel about AI and software development: I love a good puzzle. One day someone says "Hey! Use this AutoPuzzler™. It will sort all the pieces for you, and you'll finish the puzzle in seconds! It's great! You'll save so much time! You can puzzle so much more!"

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Matthias Ott
@matthiasott.com

✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. matthiasott.com/articles/des...

matthiasott.comDesign and Engineering, As One · Matthias OttWe inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, m...
Mihkel Eidast
@mihkel.eida.st

I'm all for the ecosystem focusing on making tooling faster than ever before, but a part of me is quite sad this means lots of pieces are no longer JS. I don't want to learn Rust or Go or Dart if some tool is behaving weirdly and I want to debug.

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natemoore on elm street 👻
@natemoo.re

Wholeheartedly endorse reviewing your own PRs! The transparency helps so much and it's a great opportunity to proactively call out anything that might require discussion Great, actionable way to shift towards a healthier review culture in the absence of team alignment h/t @cferdinandi.bsky.social

gomakethings.comReview your own git pull requestsLast week, I wrote about my experience working with the team at Cloud Four, and in particular some of their great practices around PR management. Today, I wanted to talk specifically about a habit my ...

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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social

Understanding how people work together is hard. Ordering them to use ChatGPT is easy. So managers do the latter, and then express shock when productivity plummets. That's because problem framing is a social task. If you skip it, your solution will be wrong for ever; "build to learn" won't save you.

productpicnic.beehiiv.comSkipping alignment leads to zero-impact UXDeliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion.

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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social

We're time traveling back to 1997 today, when WISYWIG editors were all the rage. In the decades since, web technology has clawed its way from that primitive state with semantic HTML that made accessibility possible and let content drive appearance rather than vice-versa. Then Figma blew it all up.

productpicnic.beehiiv.comFigma DreamweaverThe dream of being able to generate working websites will remain out of reach until UX redefines its practice around semantic structure rather than layouts.
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Mihkel Eidast
@mihkel.eida.st

False alarm, apparently after running some things it actually started working, even though it gave some errors. After a reboot booted successfully into my old W10 instance (which I will upgrade nevertheless) :)

Mihkel Eidast
@mihkel.eida.st

How I got into this biz

Mihkel Eidast@mihkel.eida.st

In sixth grade, one of our teachers died unexpectedly in the middle of the school year. The school then made the IT boss teach us some HTML & PHP as a replacement class. That was circa 2007, have not looked back since.

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