Design System Engineer at Adobehttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3mgdvwt7zi22mHappy Pokopia Day!05 Mar 2026 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgdvwt7zi22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3mgc2bpq53s26I've been using Rust more with Claude, so I created Ferrograph: a graph-powered Rust code intelligence tool. Indexes your codebase into a queryable knowledge graph with dead code detection, blast radius analysis, and 10 MCP tools for AI agents. github.com/GarthDB/ferrograph https://github.com/GarthDB/ferrograph05 Mar 2026 05:17 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgc2bpq53s26https://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3mg4ht4msd223Why they make it look like they were crossing their t’s?03 Mar 2026 00:04 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4ht4msd223https://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3mg3lfjxkos2jToday in Adventures in Parenting:02 Mar 2026 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3lfjxkos2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3mfp67b4tk22gYesterday, my 9yo started singing “The Suffering” out of the blue; it made me pretty happy. https://youtu.be/XnABRPS37hk?si=h1Jzis8hAZVF8CdZ25 Feb 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfp67b4tk22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3mfnvx4ldp22rSpending the last week in the ER and ICU with my wife fighting a blood infection might have had a negative impact on my goal to write articles more regularly. I’ll have to start fresh again tomorrow.25 Feb 2026 05:07 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfnvx4ldp22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3mfdbixs7j22yJust shipped AI tooling for Leonardo: a Cursor Agent Skill for @adobe/leonardo-contrast-colors, and @adobe/leonardo-mcp so assistants can generate themes, check contrast, and convert colors. Three layers so devs and LLMs get real help building accessible color systems. leonardocolor.io/ai-tools.html https://leonardocolor.io/ai-tools.html20 Feb 2026 23:34 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfdbixs7j22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3mf3ancahtk2lWe’ve had a mild winter, but an overnight snow has given the pups plenty to play with this morning, so now we have a tucked-out Tater and Tot.17 Feb 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3ancahtk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3mekv2inen22tWriting a newsletter and a blog or whatever. https://media.tenor.com/Vkid3xkvTAMAAAAC/dog-in-space-dog.gif?hh=345&ww=49811 Feb 2026 06:48 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mekv2inen22thttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3megubbtl6c2nThis Tot is almost 1 year old but her markings give her a great grumpy old man look.09 Feb 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3megubbtl6c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3meajxpajen2mWe can’t AI ourselves out of a messy design system if the system doesn’t codify the context needed to clean it up. AI will just amplify whatever structure already exists. Well-named, well-typed, versioned design data → leverage Sloppy, implicit, inconsistent systems → faster chaos07 Feb 2026 04:03 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3meajxpajen2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3me7w6omxy22uDesign token peeps, have you found meaningful metrics that have informed your work? Either on the authoring or consuming end?06 Feb 2026 22:08 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7w6omxy22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3me65qocfls2iAfter hitting critical mass, I don’t think design systems break down because of missing components. They break down when design decisions aren’t explicit enough to survive: -new teams -new platforms -redesigns -automation If a decision can’t be named, typed, or diffed, how does it survive entropy?06 Feb 2026 05:19 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3me65qocfls2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/garthdb.com/post/3me62ff7t5b2tI think the hard part might not be building components, it’s making design intent legible to engineers, tools, and future teammates. Tokens, schemas, APIs, docs, naming conventions; these aren’t outputs; they’re translation layers. So, which layers are hardest to maintain? Which ones break down?06 Feb 2026 04:19 +0000at://did:plc:ncnuoj7ol5jk56ejnypikdkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3me62ff7t5b2t