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Mike Aparicio

@peruvianidol.com
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Purveyor of fine CSS. Founder @runtriangle.com. 15 years of experience building CSS-first design systems at Groupon, Provi and Turquoise Health. 📍Chicago mikeaparicio.com

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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 3h
"Job match is HIGH"
A LinkedIn job posting for Crew Member at McDonald's. A Premium callout says "Job match is high, we can help you stand out"
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 29/09/2026
A Spotify playlist called Al Gore Rhythms.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 26/09/2026
Tallarines Saltado tonight. Basically the same dish but with chicken instead of beef and noodles instead of fries. 😋
Tallarines Saltado in a skillet. Stir fried spaghetti with tomato, onion and chicken.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 22/09/2026
Storefront of Al’s Beef. A big, red awning reads “AL’S #1 ITALIAN BEEF”
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 22/09/2026
First time making Lomo Saltado and it turned out pretty good!
A skillet with Lomo Saltado - Peruvian stir fry with beef, onion, tomato, French fried potatoes, and cilantro. The Lomo Saltado plated with rice.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 06/09/2026
Every Christmas Eve while wrapping presents.
It’s a Wonderful Life logged 11 times on Letterboxd with a 5-star rating.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 04/09/2026
Interesting. I got the same cities but wildly different heat map.
A heat map of dialects most and least like yours from mydialect.us. It shows Most: Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee and Least: Dallas, Houston, New Orleans.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 27/08/2026
Well, there goes my free time.
Title screen for Star Wars Zero Company on PS5.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 21/08/2026
@kilianvalkhof.com Polypane getting a shoutout in my Dreambeans feed.
An AI-generated background of a desktop computer with the text: 
Test Local Static Files with Polypane 30 Playgrounds
Following yesterday's release, this new feature lets you launch your project folders as secure URLs in seconds to instantly review multi-viewport layouts.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 13/08/2026
Butterfly Man meme. Man is labeled “React Devs”, the butterfly is labeled “Literally every layer of a Sketch file”, and the caption reads “Is this a <div>?”
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 12/08/2026
Looks like I picked the wrong week to go freelance!
Lloyd Bridges in Airplane! sniffing glue.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 05/08/2026
Have you ever wished I could help you with your CSS/design system problems but couldn't find the budget to hire me full-time? Well, I'm available for contract work starting in late August! Get in touch! mike@runtriangle.com
A Slack conversation between Andrew and Adam.

Andrew
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:01 AM
i feel like all the existing CSS we have is sort of a "one off" there doesn't seem to be a lot of reusable pieces in there. There are 14k lines of CSS 😱

Adam 
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:06 AM
I could talk all day about this (pros vs. cons in a start-up where you have no idea of where the design is going) but yeah, many pages are "one off" within their product areas.

Andrew 
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:06 AM
oh i get it, i understand why were here
i'm just going to need some practice, its been years since i had to write real css. i'm used to just applying premade classes and praying

Adam 
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:09 AM
We aren't fancy enough to have Mike Aparicio making design systems for us yet

Andrew 
Nov 2nd, 2021 at 10:24 AM
one day

Mike Aparicio 
May 17th, 2023 at 2:10 PM
We did it!
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 01/08/2026
This guy? No way!
John C Cafaro, owner of the contractor who botched the reflecting pool, looking like a C-Tier Batman villain.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 13/07/2026
Aspire to rise to such heights in your career that you’re one day honored with your likeness on the side of a garbage truck.
A photo of the Pope on the side of a garbage truck. The side of the truck reads:

Honoring America’s first and Chicago born
FLOOD BROTHERS
We Live to Serve Others
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 09/07/2026
You’ve got this.
A tiny knit potato holding a sign:

Positive potato
I may be a tiny potato, but I believe in you. Go do your thing!
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 08/07/2026
James Caan in Thief points and says, “I can see my money is still in your pocket, which is from the yield of my labor.”
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 07/07/2026
Pausa de Hidratación
Mickey Rourke in Barfly raises a shot glass in a dive bar.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 22/06/2026
Unearthing some real or made up Mike Aparicios I wasn’t aware of.
MIKE APARICIO
THE REAL WORLD SAN DIEGO CAST MEMBER

DEEPSEEK V4MIKE APARICO
MEXICAN LUCHA LIBRE WRESTLER

GLM 4.7 FLASHMIKE APARICIO
FORMER LA GALAXY PLAYER

MISTRAL 3.2 24B
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 22/06/2026
Some really interesting CSS happening on The Agency S2E1.
A shot of a seemingly generic browser’s dev tools. 

element.style {
}

[data-css-preset] 
.container_width {
  width: 100% /*!content_left*/:
}

[data-css-preset] 
.container {
  margin-left: 0/*!content_left*/;
  margin-right: auto/"!content_left*/;
  margin-top: -7px;
  text-align: left /*!text_left*/;
}

.container {
  align items: left; 
  mode-align-all: auto;
}

.container {
  display: main-box; 
  display: main-all;
  display: mainbox;
  display: main-all;
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 17/06/2026
AI is going great. Me: Make a combined calendar of events for my two boys based on the info in these two PDFs. Claude: What is time?
Me: never mind. This is clearly not something you're capable of doing without a bunch of work on my part.
Claude: That's fair, and I'm sorry for wasting your time. The back-and-forth ended up being more work for you than just doing it yourself, which is the opposite of helpful.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 14/06/2026
Challenge accepted! 😂
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 12/06/2026
Still from Spaceballs. Mel Brooks says “That’s amazing. I’ve got the same combination on my luggage.”
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 03/06/2026
Took me a few tries. Got a lucky local connection. 😂
Score from 82-0.com. 82-0 S score with a lineup of Gail Goodrich, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Spencer Haywood and Wilt Chamberlain. 113 team OVR.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 29/05/2026
Scottie from Star Trek speaking into the bottom of a computer mouse. “Hello, computer?”
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 27/05/2026
Pulled up next to this cool dude in traffic this morning.
A stylish, exotic bird. Kind of white/peach colored, wearing what looks like a felt neckerchief with green and pink polka dots. He’s standing on the open windowsill of a car.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 25/05/2026
Drive (2011)
Ryan Gosling in a rubber mask in Drive.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 19/05/2026
The mid-life crisis continues.
A Fender Squire starter kit with a blue and white Stratocaster, guitar bag and amp.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 19/05/2026
My son drew this uncannily accurate portrait of me and I’ve never felt so seen/attacked.
A child’s drawing of a man with a giant head. He has a goatee and big ol’ eyes and is smiling as he jams away on his computer.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 18/05/2026
@dansinker.com Thanks for the hat!
Mike pointing to a grey and white trucker hat on his head with an orange and black patch that reads TRYING.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 18/05/2026
Finally getting around to redesigning my website. Trying to pull in various content in one place. An actual HOMEpage. It's a work in progress but it's coming together.
Mike's website. White and beige backgrounds. Sections for writing with four recent blog posts, posting with recent Bluesky posts, snapping with a recent photo, watching with recent Letterboxd reviews, and playing with recent video games played. The footer includes links to various slash pages, social media acocunts, email and RSS.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 16/05/2026
wtf is this new Spotify icon? I’m only now realizing it’s a disco ball (from The Matrix, apparently). At regular size it just looks like a head of lettuce.
Close up of the Spotify app icon on iOS. It’s a sparkly disco ball with a green tint with the Spotify logo in black on top of it.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 05/05/2026
Sickos meme. A creepy guy in a black shirt with SICKOS on it peers through a window and says “YES… HA HA HA… YES!”
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 28/04/2026
One astronaut looking at the Earth asks “Wait, it’s the White People’s Party?” To which another astronaut behind him, holding a gun to his head, responds “always has been.”
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 23/04/2026
Shopping for a new couch. This one has great reviews.
5-star review for a Greely Bend Power Reclining Sofa with Drop Down Table. The review reads "Had 18 yrs. Husband died on it, no one would use. Had love seat recliners too. - JENICE H."
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 21/04/2026
Who among us hasn’t?
She’s alleged to have been drinking during the workday from a “stash” of alcohol in her office, arranging official trips for herself that were extended vacations, taking subordinates to an Oregon strip club while on one such trip, showing no interest in the work of the department, and having an affair with a member of her security team.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 14/04/2026
Or Peruvian?
Edison Flores, in his Peruvian national football team uniform — white with a red sash, #20, holds his hand up to his ear.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 08/04/2026
👀
Dear: RUN TRIANGLE LLC
Congratulations! We're pleased to inform you that your application has been approved, and the Articles of Organization to create your Limited Liability company (LLC) has been recorded with the Illinois Secretary of State's office.
We wish you success with your new business!
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 07/04/2026
If societal collapse is imminent then I’m gonna LIVE MAS, baby!
A Taco Bell bag with a large Mountain Dew.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 27/03/2026
Niche joke. 😅
Overcooked is a 2016 cooking simulation game developed by Ghost Town Games and published by Team17. In a local cooperative experience, players control a number of chefs in kitchens filled with various obstacles and hazards to rapidly prepare meals to specific orders under a time limit. The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in August 2016. A Nintendo Switch version was released in July 2017.Categorization and ranking
Speedruns are divided into various categories that impose additional limitations on a runner. It is common for category restrictions to require a certain amount of content to be completed in the game.
Each video game may have its own speedrun categories, but some categories are popular irrespective of game. The most common are:
• Any%, which involves getting to the end as fast as possible with no qualifier…
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 27/03/2026
A shot from Office Space. Milton sits in his office cubicle beneath a large banner that reads: Is This Good for the COMPANY?
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 26/03/2026
It's performance review time!
Mike should be more open to the growth of tools in our industry. AI tools are moving lightyears in short spaces of time, it's genuinely an exciting time to be working in this industry (for a successful and supportive company). Mike should relish this opportunity to drive our adoption forwards, not hold it back. Mike routinely makes woeful assumptions that Turquoise is dying to replace us all with robots.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 23/03/2026
Feel more like an expert dying in a field.
Clive Owen in The Bourne Identity, lying in a field as he bleeds out. He says to Matt Damon, look at what they make you give.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 20/03/2026
Poster from Dune, an orange sun with Paul and Chani in the foreground. Paul is holding up a knife. Instead of DUNE it reads DUDE and in smaller text beneath, ABIDES.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 13/03/2026
We are so back, baby! 😂
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 10/03/2026
@monteiro.bsky.social I needed to hear this today. Thanks, Mike!
An inscription inside a book that reads: Mike, Don't you dare give up. — Mike

A sticker of an anthropomorphic guillotine pokes from the top.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 04/03/2026
This was the post.
Henpecked Hal says: What if I told you that one day in your late 40s you'll be forced to fast then drink something that makes you violently shit for 24-hours before a group of doctors drug you and shove a camera up your ass and the worst part of the whole experience is the way the drink tastes?
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 28/02/2026
Cleansing the timeline with this video of my son making popcorn for the first time a few years ago. ♥️
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 27/02/2026
When you hire a contractor to do your marketing site
A series of divs containing HTML style blocks, grouped inside another div with the class "global-styles".
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 23/02/2026
Yeah, you really gotta wreck that thing if you want the algorithm to work. (Which reminds me of one of my favorite playlists.)
A Spotify Playlist called Al Gore Rhythms, featuring album art with a parental advisory logo and Al Gore holding a mic, looking like he's crooning. The description of the playlist reads: An inconvenient truth is that these 90s jams are dope.
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 17/02/2026
The Swedish Chef from The Muppets. The caption reads: MORGE! MORGE! MORGE!
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