✎ Goodbye, Twitter. It's heartbreaking to have to walk away from a place that's been such a crucial part of my career and life, but I have to. Read me:

Just a reminder that I'm off of Twitter now and am over on Bluesky hanging out and having a good time: https://t.co/kuONJ9BZed It's just like old times! You can read more about my decision to leave Twitter here:

Please stay in touch and say hey elsewhere. I'd love to reconnect in healthier places. To the ghost of Twitter, thank you for everything over the last almost 17 years. This website transformed my life in meaningful ways, and I'm grateful.

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In the tradition of dressing up as a hyper-local Pittsburgh lore & regional reference. I am the ghost of the Butthole Window on Penn Ave at Friendship Ave. #pittsburgh

kinda wild how far you can get with CSS alone a scroll animation tied to the content scroll powers the percentage update + icon animation interpolate-size provides a way to transition the popover between button size and content size using starting-style 🤙

What album would you say you know the most intimately?

I had to rewatch that first move 🤯

Brad's #productivity hack: avoid catching pneumonia. Trust me.

I've seen these photos pop up on countless conference presentations over the years, and they still really get the point across that our digital landscape is vast and varied.

Happy 11th birthday to this epic photo shoot at BDConf in Nashville. We somehow convinced all of the attendees to put their phones into a giant composition. @lukew captured the magic:

Ragdolls that don’t even look human is a lost art. We need to bring it back😭

Holy shit this is amazing.

Welp, I need to wear glasses now.

Design system users don't need to understand complicated diagrams or a bunch of terminology. All they need to know is that if they ever run into issues they can easily get in touch with their friendly neighborhood design system team. Talk!

I walk through our updated design system governance diagram in this video:

I've updated our popular design system governance diagram to represent the difference between an honest-to-goodness bug, a visual discrepancy, and a new feature:

Design system users often have a hard time distinguishing between a bug, a missing feature, an intentional design deviation, a new pattern they need to create, or something else. All they know is the design system isn't working for them: