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Dylan Smith

@dylanatsmith.com

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Staff Design Engineer, GitHub Runner, South London dylanatsmith.com

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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.

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Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 20/08/2026

Funny you used us as an example. The docs site handles this but main site doesn’t. We have light and dark versions of several icon variants (representing state for things like PRs) so not an effortless change, but something I’ve added to our UI quality backlog.

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

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.

Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 14/10/2025

No need to remember the syntax!

Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 26/06/2025

🥲

Me: is this good

Copilot: This CSS snippet is mostly good, but

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

Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 07/05/2025

You can disable that

"Messages and media" tab of Slack’s preferences panel showing an unchecked "Convert my typed emoticons to emoji" option

Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 04/03/2025

The UK actually does this. (I’ve dropped my personalised amounts column here.) It’s readily available in every taxpayer’s online account.

Breakdown of how the UK government spent my income tax, cropping to only show the column for “Description.”

Categories in order:

Welfare (21.6%)
Health (20.2%)
State Pensions (11.4%)
National Debt Interest (11.1%)
Education (10.2%)
Defence (5.2%)
Public Order and Safety (4.4%)
Transport (4.2%)
Business and Industry (4.2%)
Government Administration (2.1%)
Housing and Utilities, like street lighting (1.8%)
Environment (1.4%)
Culture, like sports, libraries, museums (1.2%)
Overseas Aid (0.7%)
Outstanding payments to the EU (0.6%)

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”

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

Dog on bus

Corgi on the bus from perspective of his owner (me) standing above him

Corgi on the bus through a security camera monitor

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 · 28/11/2024

🤝

A customer service email from IKEA which begins, “Dear Dr. Smith.”

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.

Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 23/11/2024

My dog would like to join your dog’s Dogs With Candy Toys club.

A corgi holding a plush dog toy designed to look like a bag of Marks & Spencer’s Percy Pigs sweets.

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

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

This makes me feel way less silly about buying the IKEA wrapping paper storage thing.

It’s like a fabric, zippered box with pockets for cards in the lid. The main compartment has a large area to strap in rolls of wrapping paper and a smaller section for storing bows and ribbon.

Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 18/11/2024

Skeeter Valentine from the animated series Doug pointing toward himself with his thumb. The overlaid caption reads “I’m Skeeter.”

Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 11/07/2023

For your consideration:

A 400 gram jar of Lotus Biscoff spread

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