Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 28/08/2026Apropos of nothing, avoid hand-rolling your own RSS feeds. 021
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 28/08/2026I messed up my RSS feed this week and, in a moment of serendipity, stumbled upon this old post. dylanatsmith.com/notes/2022-1...dylanatsmith.comNote posted 2022-12-13T21:32:44One “crappy” thing about RSS that I actually like is when someone screws up their feed and their last _n_ posts get republished. It’s a nice smoke signal that they’re working on their site, and someti... 130
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 26/08/2026It’s built in if you’re pro. manual.raycast.com/ai/dictationmanual.raycast.comDictationPress, speak, and Raycast transcribes your words into clean, formatted text — pasted instantly wherever you're working. 020
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 24/08/2026I use it constantly. - In which channel did people discuss ... - When did we first ship this change? - Find me the PR where … - Find me the article someone linked about … - Find me any discussions about … 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 20/08/2026Funny 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. 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 13/08/2026For example, I just picked one issue at random and the comment says Firefox doesn’t support the `beforeinput`, but it shipped in 2021 in v87. 020
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 13/08/2026lol deal. Hoping a lot of these are already unnecessary though, and just never got removed when browsers progressed. 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 13/08/2026I assume zero. I didn’t check. We don’t support it. docs.github.com/en/get-start... 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 13/08/2026We 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 220
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 31/07/2026github.blog/news-insight...github.blogGitHub merge queue is generally availableSupercharge pull request merges on your busiest branches by enabling your team to queue. 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 02/06/2026Could we just pass a valueless `headingoffset` attribute to the <body> and use <h1> throughout for opt-in magic? 100
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 13/05/2026This means even inputs that are visually similar can have different behaviour, which is potentially confusing and really grates on me. But we err toward consistency with user expectations vs. internal consistency on this one. 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 13/05/2026I keep dealing with this on github.com. For multi-line inputs, Cmd+Enter is safest (to avoid mistakes, but especially for features like agent sessions where that send action costs money). For something like chat, users expect the Enter convention. 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 12/04/2026You can do it from the menu beside the name of the custom view. 100
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 29/01/2026Is it bad that I knew immediately who it is and that he was in the Blood Brothers? 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 18/01/2026The first 28 Years but not Bone Temple. youtube.com/watch?v=18Zm...m.youtube.com28 Years Later Director Danny Boyle Innovates with iPhone | Apple TVYouTube video by Apple TV 010
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 14/11/2025Thanks for flagging this. I just shipped a fix — let me know if you still see any issues. 130
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 14/11/2025It happens everywhere. One of my favourite things is shipping changes to the docs and then linking coworkers to the docs I wrote to back up my own opinion in discussion. “Primer says this.” 130
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 14/11/2025They never really took hold in our UI for the accessibility reasons, so not a lot to backtrack on. They’re still in use in the one product area where they were first introduced but nowhere else, as far as I’m aware. 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 14/11/2025We didn’t realise how good we had it with Sublime Text. 050
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 04/11/2025This little tooltip copy might be my favourite thing I’ve done in almost four years at GitHub. 0121
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...youtube.comThe big impact of tiny detailsYouTube video by GitHub 030
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 18/08/2025If that’s their strategy, why have they also shipped like three bad todo list apps? 000
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 14/08/2025Design museum. Warpigs. Get an ice cream cone at Torvehallerne then people watch at Israels Plads. 130
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 11/08/2025One of my favourite Twitter threads was about this. xcancel.com/Joe8Bit/stat...xcancel.com 110
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 06/08/2025It’s weird that AI is terrible at writing code in my area of expertise but so good at writing code I know nothing about 080
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 25/07/2025I really just need this fixed so GitHub users stop reporting it to me. 😂😭 bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...bugs.webkit.org246691 – Rotation animation wobble when SVG is scaled down 010
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 11/07/2025Slack channel names are the new domain names. I “acquired” #ui today, so stoked. 250
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 10/07/2025This doesn’t solve the root issue yet but wanted to let you know that agent sessions now just cost 1 premium request each. github.blog/changelog/20... 010
Dylan Smith @dylanatsmith.com · 06/07/2025Interested to hear any other feedback (even/especially nitpicking) you have about the experience. DMs are open, I think. 010
