siddharth ☻

siddharth ☻

@sid.st

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

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then: we picked this framework, even though its not the best, because our team knows it really well now: we picked this framework, even though its not the best, because Claude knows it really well

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

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

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

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 😛

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

if that productive day is the within the last 2 days of the sprint, i look great if it's the day after the sprint deadline, i look like a slacker. if it's too early, i didn't pick enough work. i know i'm overthinking this, but there's too much baggage!

lol, i said hoe 🇳🇱🇧🇪 as in hoe gaat het met jou?

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@sid.st has swears! They've used 10 profanities in their last 345 posts. 🥇 "fuck" (3 times) 🥈 "hoe" (2 times) 🥉 "damn" (1 times)

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.

TIL in the 60s the dutch govt hired a harvard+mit guy to "modernise" amsterdam his plans included demolishing multiple neighbourhoods (incl where i live now) to make highways and to fill the canals to make parking lots!! the people haaaated it, there were protests and the plans were thrown away

when i visited the US (texas), i saw so many guys wearing a cap indoors, what’s up with that?? i know little about US fashion, is it a south thing? is it a recent thing?

siddharth ☻ reposted

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

it’s a myth that men don’t care about fashion, show a man a random blue striped shirt and they’ll say oh yeah that’s the barca away kit from 2007-08 campaign, messi still wore number 19 in it

why have there not been any improvements in flight durations in the last 15 years 🤔 advances in technology have stalled despite there being more flights than ever