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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 25/08/2026

This good boy got a terminal diagnosis today. 💔

A corgi from the side looking off to the left of the image, with his tongue sticking out and a big feathery tail.

Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 13/08/2026

We cataloged browser fallbacks and workarounds in the github.com codebase so we can track them and remove obsolete code. - 232 WebKit - 169 Chromium - 72 Firefox - 18 Edge - 12 Internet Explorer

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 02/03/2026

Work offsite karaoke can only mean one thing

Me doing karaoke in a dive bar. On screen are the lyrics:

YOUR BEST BEST
IS TO STAY AWAY
MOTHERF####R
IT'S JUST
ONE OF THOSE DAYS

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 14/11/2025

We didn’t realise how good we had it with Sublime Text.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 04/11/2025

This little tooltip copy might be my favourite thing I’ve done in almost four years at GitHub.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 19/08/2025

📼 My talk with Pavel from this year’s LGTM, GitHub’s internal design conference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Wh...

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The big impact of tiny details

YouTube video by GitHub

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 06/08/2025

It’s weird that AI is terrible at writing code in my area of expertise but so good at writing code I know nothing about

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 11/07/2025

Slack channel names are the new domain names. I “acquired” #ui today, so stoked.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 21/06/2025

Just got back from watching 28 Years Later. I could post a spoiler of the ending and nobody would ever believe me.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 03/06/2025

Went to Stockholm, ran a marathon

Me running down the track at Stockholm Olympic Stadium. I’m wearing a black hat, sunglasses, black shorts, and a big smile. There’s a grandstand on the left of the background and a brick tower with a Swedish flag in the top-middle. Bunch of runners slower than me pictured to the right. 😏

Me holding a medal and giving a thumbs up in front of screen with my official finish time on it: 03:22:19

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 27/04/2025

Hate to be on a flight with a number that sounds like the name of a documentary

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 09/04/2025

“Haven’t you created a FigPal yet?” Ma’am, I am in my late 30s and want to spend as little time on this computer as possible.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 24/03/2025

pixel blindness noun the inability to see discrepancies between a user interface as it was designed and as it was built in code

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 20/03/2025

Go ahead. Make the joke in the Zoom chat.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 19/03/2025

“Design engineering” without making design decisions is just frontend development.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 18/03/2025

I’ve been working in tech long enough that nothing surprises me anymore. Except when I meet someone in person who seemed like a dweeby little nerd on Zoom and I find out they secretly had strong muscles.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 27/02/2025

I never thought it would happen to me (shipping a sparkly icon to indicate AI features)

A menu in a user interface that shows a sparkly pencil icon beside the word “Revise”

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 24/02/2025

Me: Please make sure you’re inviting designers to your team kickoffs Me a thousand team kickoff invitations later: Oh no

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 19/02/2025

If you think “tree surgeon” sounds like a weird job title, wait till you find out what the tree surgeons think of “software engineers.”

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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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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 10/02/2025

You should be able to buy standing room season tickets to music venues.

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Helen Hou-Sandí @helen.blog · 06/02/2025

Guess whatttttt I'm hiring engineers for my team (accessibility engineering) and one of my immediate peers is also hiring for Primer, our design system! We are looking for earlier-in-career folks as Software Engineer IIs, to best complement and round out our teams. githubinc.jibeapply.com/jobs/3987

githubinc.jibeapply.com

Software Engineer II in United States | GitHub, Inc.

GitHub, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer II in United States. Review all of the job details and apply today!

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 01/02/2025

When other runners spit in public it’s disgusting but when I do it it’s fine

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 30/01/2025

“As little design as possible” — Dieter Rams quiet quitting

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 29/01/2025

I like to think I have above-average accessibility knowledge but I don’t know how software teams function without dedicated accessibility experts. There is so much nuance and so many unknown unknowns.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 27/01/2025

bsky.app is such an amazingly bad domain it’s a miracle this site ever caught on.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 10/01/2025

I’m using a profile photo from 2019 and I think it might just be too late to ever change it again.

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Adrián Mato 🐙 @adrianmato.com · 06/01/2025

✨ It me again! I’m hiring a Senior Product Design Manager to join our GitHub Design team, focusing on the tooling space. You’ll lead a talented and kind group of designers! If you’re a manager who values craft, quality, and innovation, this is a beautiful opportunity: 👉 gh.io/design-manag...

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 27/12/2024

Celebrations ranked: 1. Snickers 2. Bounty 3. Galaxy Caramel 4. Twix 5. Mars 6. Milky Way 7. Maltesers 8. Galaxy (plain)

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 21/12/2024

I ran a new 5K PB today and only _almost_ puked at the finish line.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 07/12/2024

Ran for two hours in the freezing rain and high winds then ate an almond croissant in the bath, how was your Saturday morning?

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 30/11/2024

Honestly pretty satisfied with my attempt at naming all the TfL stations from memory but I know I’m about to be annoyed by a bunch of the ones I missed. london.metro-memory.com

An visualisation of London with all the lines and stations overlaid on it. I guessed 42.5% of the names so those station’s dots are coloured in.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 29/11/2024

One day, when I was 15 I had a tall, blue mohawk, the two punkest kids in town invited me to hang out with them. 1/

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 29/11/2024

❌ Friendship ended with sore legs 🤝 Now Black Friday discounted massage gun is my best friend

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 28/11/2024

I finally found the Superblast 2 in stock in the UK. 👟💸

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 27/11/2024

I am begging Sweet Baby Ray to update his label. Twitter hasn’t used this “t” logo for 12 years.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 26/11/2024

Recently someone politely replied to me on a thread and capped it with “end of communication,” which I interpreted as “nothing personal but go away now.” Totally fair, this should be more acceptable everywhere.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 25/11/2024

Many hands make light work, except in software where the work somehow gets heavier after around 6–10 hands.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 22/11/2024

I onboarded and shipped my first PRs to Copilot Workspace this week. It’s going to get even better very quickly. 🚀 githubnext.com/projects/cop...

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GitHub Next | Copilot Workspace

GitHub Next Project: A Copilot-native dev environment, designed for everyday tasks.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 20/11/2024

Overcast premium has listening stats now. 👂

Spittin Chiclets
77:28:00

AXE TO GRIND PODCAST
56:57:31

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts
31:05:32

HardLore: Stories from Tour
28:53:34

ShopTalk
27:32:33

The First Ever Podcast
27:04:55

Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
18:01:31

Turned Out A Punk
14:36:40

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
10:41:14

Hackers Incorporated
7:59:38

Dive Club
6:54:09

Doctors of Running Podcast
6:00:59

Complementary
5:20:55

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 19/11/2024

Made a lil starter pack for the team go.bsky.app/HyNVFFA

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 17/11/2024

Sundays are for long runs.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 15/11/2024

Drives me nuts that they customised the typeface but didn’t align the horizontal lines of the C with those of the S. Otherwise there are some nice nods in here (especially rebeccapurple).

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