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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 31/07/2025

Learning the @notion.com codebase by shipping quick wins ⚡ Shipped today: You can now paste image files directly to set custom page icons. Before, you could only paste image *URLs* What quick win should I tackle next? (screenshots pls)

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 28/07/2025

What’s next: bsky.app/profile/cole...

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 28/07/2025

Today is my first day at @notion.com! I’m joining as a design engineer to explore AI workflows. Excited to share more soon

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 15/07/2025

Thanks Ash! Miss you ❤️

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 03/07/2025

Personal update: After six incredible years at GitHub, July 1st was my last day 🥲 Thank you to everyone who made my time at GitHub special ❤️ Excited to share what’s next!

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 30/05/2025

I gave a lightning talk about why state machines should be part of your design process ...and gave a demo of an experimental Figma plugin I built that allows you to use state machines to power your designs Here's the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRKZ...

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Designing with state machines

YouTube video by GitHub

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 21/04/2025

Yeah, I think a property editor will be so nice to have

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 21/04/2025

I solve that by creating a note per person (tagged with #person). Then I can mention them in notes using [[

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 21/04/2025

Glad you like it! Let me know if you have any feedback 😊

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 21/04/2025

It doesn't get much better than this 🔥

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 21/04/2025

I had a good photographer 😉

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Lumen @uselumen.com · 17/04/2025

🚀 We shipped a few updates last week: 1. The Tags page has new view and sort options. 2. The command menu now includes contextual note actions if viewing a note page. 3. Clicking "New note" while viewing a list filtered by tag will prefill your new note with that tag. Thanks to Zakher Masri! ❤️

The command menu now includes contextual note actions if viewing a note page.

If you create a new note while viewing a list filtered by tag, that tag will be prefilled in your new note

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 07/04/2025

@schickling.dev is working on a local-first music app called Overtone that looks promising. Maybe he'll let you off the waitlist by 2026 😉

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GitHub @github.com · 04/04/2025

📣 This just in... The *open source* and official GitHub MCP Server is here 🤩 github.blog/changelog/20...

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github-mcp-server is now available in public preview · GitHub Changelog

github-mcp-server [Public Preview]

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 28/03/2025

What am I working on? Wrong answers only...

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 26/03/2025

I made an app icon for Word Rumble to try out OpenAI's new image model, and I'm impressed with the results! I tried the same prompt with DALL-E a couple of months ago, and the results weren't nearly this good

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 25/03/2025

Can confirm that @adrianmato.com is both a good hang and a good photographer ❤️

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Lumen @uselumen.com · 24/03/2025

New stickers just arrived 📦

Lumen stickers. From right to left:
- plain black and white
- holographic
- holographic yellow (special edition)

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 20/03/2025

More state machine experiments inside of @figma.com ✨

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 19/03/2025

I drew up how GitHub Copilot works in case you want a quick 'n' cheeky explanation!

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Lumen @uselumen.com · 17/03/2025

Just added a cheatsheet to Lumen so you can quickly reference keyboard shortcuts and markdown syntax. Look for it at the bottom of the sidebar 👀

Cheatsheet link at the bottom of the sidebar

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 17/03/2025

Just ordered some special edition @uselumen.com stickers that match Lumen's local dev favicon 🚧 Thinking I'll give them to folks who have contributed to Lumen in some way (e.g., sent feedback, submitted a PR, brainstormed with me, etc.)

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 16/03/2025

During our @githubnext.com offsite last week, I built a Figma plugin that allows you to create state machines and integrate them directly into your designs. Coming soon to the Figma Community! (in review now)

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 15/03/2025

Feather sticker spotted! ☺️

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 09/03/2025

I'm really happy with how these share dialogs turned out 😄

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Lumen @uselumen.com · 09/03/2025

You can now publish notes with Lumen. Happy sharing! app.uselumen.com/share/e35193...

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🌐 Publish notes with Lumen

Shared note

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 02/03/2025

I lean toward detecting/fixing because it leaves open the possibility that the “mistakes” are actually areas where the system needs to adapt to new use cases

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 02/03/2025

What have you been using it for?

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 17/02/2025

My setup is very minimal. I just have two apps installed: 1. Kindle for reading 2. @uselumen.com for writing So far so good! It’s definitely not as smooth as an iPhone but I don’t need it to be

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 17/02/2025

I just got a BOOX Palma a few weeks ago and I love it!

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cameronfoxly.bsky.social @cameronfoxly.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If you’ve used GitHub Copilot chat on GitHub.com/copilot recently, you may have noticed some new life breathed into the Copilot chat avatar with interactive 3D character animations. Let's do a deep dive 🧵on how we hacked it together for the front end 🤓’s out there…

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 12/02/2025

Yeah, what questions do you have?

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 05/02/2025

@uselumen.com now has an e-ink mode! Here's Lumen running as a PWA on my BOOX Palma:

Lumen running as a PWA on my BOOX Palma with the e-ink theme enabled

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 23/01/2025

I built a simple note-taking app that works well for me 😊 @uselumen.com

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 18/01/2025

💯 font + icons are like 90% of a product’s personality

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