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Max Taylor

@madebymax.bsky.social
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Designer, developer. Organizer of chaos, lover of dogs.

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winston @winston.cc · 14/05/2026
even if Meta glasses are useful as a disability tool that in no way justifies their existence as a surveillance device manufactured by one of the worst companies on earth? this is not how we make the world more accessible sorry
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Last week I talked a little but about building a design system with Claude Code. I wrote up a full post detailing the steps I took and what I learned. Check it out: www.maxtaylor.design/writing/what...
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What I learned building a design system with Claude Code
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy May Day. This week’s newsletter is about smoking, which is a very stupid thing a lot of us used to do, as well as very stupid things we are currently doing, which we will someday look down on as well. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
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How to smoke
I used to love to smoke. If it weren’t for the whole lung cancer, emphysema, death thing, would you recommend smoking?
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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy May Day! Thank you to the labor leaders in Oregon and across the country who work to bring us closer to social and economic justice and to all workers who contribute to our communities, from putting food on our tables to delivering critical health care.
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Day 100 of #100DaysOfCode 🎉🎉 Today I did some testing with the design system + Claude by coding the same site 3 ways: using a Figma design + MCP, using just a prompt and code components (no Figma), and combining both - using the react components but referencing the Figma design
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Day 99- used the Figma Console MCP to import the design system into Figma. It set up all my variables and created the components. Definitely some things that need to be tweaked, but on the whole it did a pretty good job and automates a lot of the busywork (esp setting up variables) #100DaysOfCode
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Days 97&98: continued working on building out a basic design system using Claude. It did a pretty good job of putting together the semantic tokens and building the components using Radix. I went back and revised some of the tokens and naming. #100DaysOfCode
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Days 95&96: trying to take it easy this weekend, so just did a few more lessons from Whimsical Animations. #100DaysOfCode
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Day 94 - I finished my RAG app today. It searches my HOA's bylaws and local ordinances so users can find out what is and isn't permitted. #100DaysOfCode
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Day 93: today I worked on creating a design system using Claude code. I was able to get quite far - primitive, semantic, and component tokens set up in json and Figma, and a handful of react components coded and hooked up in storybook. Not bad for a day’s work. #100DaysOfCode
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Me: this library isn’t importing properly and it’s breaking my code. Can you help me figure out why? Claude: I found the problem! You haven’t written any of the logic for your form yet. Here, I did it for you!
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Day 92 - After years of saving links across all kinds of apps that never quite did everything I wanted, today I used Claude code to build my own self-hosted bookmarking app, so I can control the experience and no longer deal with links getting lost when I switch programs. #100DaysOfCode
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Day 91 - more work on the RAG project, mostly working on cleaning up the frontend. #100DaysOfCode
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Day 90 - got my RAG app working - upserted my vectors, implemented search, hooked up the Claude API to generate responses, and connected it to the frontend. Frontend needs a lot of work, but it’s functional! #100DaysOfCode
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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A PHONE THAT FITS MY FUCKING HAND also a monitor that can switch between regular and eink FIGURE IT OUT
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AL @jebushchrist.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Day 89 of #100DaysOfCode: I did some more work on my RAG app today. Everything is importing and embedding just fine, but my vectors won’t upsert to Pinecone and I can’t for the life of me figure out why. I’m about to give up and just use @supabase.com instead
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Days 87-88: working on setting up embeddings for a small RAG project. It’d be cool if all the different docs sites didn’t contradict each other 🫠 #100DaysOfCode
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Day 86 - more lessons from Whimsical Animations and do some reading about conditional layouts #100DaysOfCode
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
One day I'm going to fix the UI for rebase conflicts. But until then I'll just stare at this screen and wonder what "Current" and "Incoming" mean.
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Day 85 - feeling a bit burnt out, so keeping things light with some of the new lessons from Whimsical Animations. This course is so good. #100DaysOfCode
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
For days 83 and 84 I decided to play around with Claude Code and let it make some updates to my site and my god did it ever screw up my CSS. Lesson learned that it apparently completely ignores instructions to use design tokens. #100DaysOfCode #LearnInPublic
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Do you know how much you have to suck to get me to side with the church?!
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Days 80-82 of #100DaysOfCode Some more portfolio work, a few more lessons from Anthropic Academy, and played around with Claude Code and Figma MCP
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Day 79 of #100DaysOfCode I spent all day struggling with how to manage my attempt numbers so that they would automatically increment while still allowing users to go back to edit a previous attempt and ended up trashing almost everything *sigh*
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Day 78 of #100DaysOfCode I got the MVP of my powerlifting app working 🎉🎉🎉 There’s still a lot to work on, but the forms work and I’m able to create, read, and updated information in my database. #BuildInPublic #LearnInPublic
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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Day 77 of #100DaysOfCode: Set up routing and figured out how to use params to capture the foreign key for my sessions table to connect to my attempt table. Spent way too much time trying to figure out how to clear a select when a form is submitted. Also watched the RAG section of Anthropic Academy
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Day 77 Did more work on my side project - got my attempt form setup and added zod for server side validation. Also started adding in a bit of logic #100DaysOfCode
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling: Pure fictions are on the brink of being treated as scientific and political knowledge. (@leifw.bsky.social and @beenwrekt.bsky.social, The New York Times-unlocked) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...
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Opinion | It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling
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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Studies show reading full article instead of just the title provides a better understanding of the subject matter
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Day 76 - I played around on Codepen a reverse engineered a couple of pens. Made some small updates to the personal site. Started Anthropic Academy's Building with the Claude API course. Worked through a short course on AI engineering from parsity. #100DaysOfCode
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deconspray @deconspray.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Web accessibility is moving backwards. 95.9% of homepages still fail WCAG and errors are rising. Complexity is outpacing inclusion. Accessibility must be built in, not bolted on. webaim.org/projects/mil... #WebAccessibility #A11y #DigitalInclusion #WCAG #UX #InclusiveDesign #DigitalAccessibility
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WebAIM: The WebAIM Million - The 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Day 75 - today I wrapped up the SQL lessons on Scrimba and did some more css updates on my personal site #100DaysOfCode
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/04/2026
1. Throughout history, leaders have committed acts of civil disobedience to challenge unjust laws. Add Samantha Boucher to that list. Boucher walked into the Kansas Statehouse bathroom in front of police, deliberately violating one of the most extreme anti-trans law in the country.
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Transgender Woman Defies Kansas's Extreme Bathroom Ban In Act Of Civil Disobedience At State Capitol
"I am very sorry that you and others have been put in this situation," Gov. Kelly said.
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Day 74 of the #100DaysOfCode. Today I worked on getting more forms created and pushing to the database. I feel like I worked several hours and barely accomplished anything. Hopefully the pieces will fall in place quickly going forward. I also added @tina.io to my personal page.
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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 02/04/2026
We've already shared EU alternative sites before so we're sharing this one to make sure it's on your radar. europeantechmap.eu
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European Tech Map – Discover European Tech Alternatives
Find GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted software alternatives. Browse 500+ European companies across 30+ categories.
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Day 73 of #100DaysOfCode Today I managed to create a form and pass data to my Supabase database via Prisma. I was so stoked when it actually worked! I also spent half my morning trying to figure out an ESM issue only to realize that I just needed to change my node version 🤬🤬
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 31/03/2026
“It’s either a short story or a novel. There’s no such thing as a novella.” #TransDayOfVisibility
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If People Talked About Other Things the Way They Talked About Gender Identity
Fiction: “It’s either a short story or a novel. There’s no such thing as a novella.” March 31 2022 3/31/24 3/31/25 3/31/26 CALENDAR 2027
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 31/03/2026
Today is #TransDayofVisibility. I wrote about how the possibility for change that transness represents benefits everyone, because it is the same possibility that maybe other parts of our lives can be better too. 💖🤍💙 xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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Trans visibility promises a better world. That’s why it’s under attack | Xtra Magazine
Trans Day of Visibility is a call to action reminding us that other things in our world can change for the better too
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Day 72 of #100DaysOfCode. Getting the side project off the ground. Spun up a next app and installed Prisma and connected it to Supabase. Got my schema configured and migrated to Supabase
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Day 71 of #100DaysOfCode I finished up the RAG section of the Fullstack course on Scrimba and started on the advanced SQL section. I also started scaffolding my next side project and began creating some issues in Linear for it
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Day 70 of #100DaysOfCode. Finally hit publish on my portfolio site 🎉 There's still a lot I want to do (are you even a designer if you don't hate your portfolio?), but it's at least current and not awful. Need a bit of a breather for now, but I'll get back to it... Check it out at madebymax.dev
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Day 69 of #100DaysOfCode. Added Cloudinary to my portfolio site for hosting images. Added homepage content. Added fluid typography and sizes to make it more responsive. Fixed a few accessibility issues. Finally making some good use of @polypane.app
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Day 68 of #100DaysOfCode - Lots of CSS tweaking and worked on the homepage and about pages for my portfolio. Started the RAG and vector databases section of the Fullstack Path. #LearnInPublic
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Max Taylor @madebymax.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Day 67 of #100DaysOfCode. Did more work on my case studies for my portfolio and finished the NextJS course from Scrimba's Fullstack Path. #LearnInPublic
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