Staff Design Engineer, GitHub Copilot Runner, South London https://dylanatsmith.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3mg3t5elzcc2nWork offsite karaoke can only mean one thing02 Mar 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3t5elzcc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3m5kfatxbpk2dWe didn’t realise how good we had it with Sublime Text.14 Nov 2025 00:08 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5kfatxbpk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3m4sitw4cts2xThis little tooltip copy might be my favourite thing I’ve done in almost four years at GitHub.04 Nov 2025 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4sitw4cts2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lwrc6d6ae22w📼 My talk with Pavel from this year’s LGTM, GitHub’s internal design conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Wh4W9Gf9E19 Aug 2025 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwrc6d6ae22whttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lvqxihrnns2nIt’s weird that AI is terrible at writing code in my area of expertise but so good at writing code I know nothing about06 Aug 2025 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqxihrnns2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lunppem34k2xz-index is a code smell23 Jul 2025 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lunppem34k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3ltngynqwj224Slack channel names are the new domain names. I “acquired” #ui today, so stoked.10 Jul 2025 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltngynqwj224https://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lsiytokfv22h🥲26 Jun 2025 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsiytokfv22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3ls5ldvk4qk2rJust got back from watching 28 Years Later. I could post a spoiler of the ending and nobody would ever believe me.21 Jun 2025 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls5ldvk4qk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lqpn6wjd7s2kWent to Stockholm, ran a marathon03 Jun 2025 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqpn6wjd7s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lpfk4a3dgk2dWhen the shower goes cold #eurovision17 May 2025 21:59 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpfk4a3dgk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lnt6o62cus2dHate to be on a flight with a number that sounds like the name of a documentary27 Apr 2025 21:21 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnt6o62cus2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lmev37wo3c24“Haven’t you created a FigPal yet?” Ma’am, I am in my late 30s and want to spend as little time on this computer as possible.09 Apr 2025 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmev37wo3c24https://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3ll5lvl7r4k2vpixel blindness noun the inability to see discrepancies between a user interface as it was designed and as it was built in code24 Mar 2025 20:29 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5lvl7r4k2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lkt562udbc27Go ahead. Make the joke in the Zoom chat.20 Mar 2025 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkt562udbc27https://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lkq37bfuns2d“Design engineering” without making design decisions is just frontend development.19 Mar 2025 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkq37bfuns2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lknvnjqy5k26I’ve been working in tech long enough that nothing surprises me anymore. Except when I meet someone in person who seemed like a dweeby little nerd on Zoom and I find out they secretly had strong muscles.18 Mar 2025 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lknvnjqy5k26https://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lj5s2l23w223I never thought it would happen to me (shipping a sparkly icon to indicate AI features)27 Feb 2025 11:29 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj5s2l23w223https://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3liwwqcrpqc2zMe: Please make sure you’re inviting designers to your team kickoffs Me a thousand team kickoff invitations later: Oh no24 Feb 2025 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwwqcrpqc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3likcidgeac2uIf you think “tree surgeon” sounds like a weird job title, wait till you find out what the tree surgeons think of “software engineers.”19 Feb 2025 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3likcidgeac2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lhtwuey6rc25Dog on bus10 Feb 2025 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtwuey6rc25https://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lhtpslxumc2yYou should be able to buy standing room season tickets to music venues.10 Feb 2025 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtpslxumc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lh54cnhqj222When other runners spit in public it’s disgusting but when I do it it’s fine01 Feb 2025 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh54cnhqj222https://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lgxdudf5w22a“As little design as possible” — Dieter Rams quiet quitting30 Jan 2025 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgxdudf5w22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lguwd2pe2s24I like to think I have above-average accessibility knowledge but I don’t know how software teams function without dedicated accessibility experts. There is so much nuance and so many unknown unknowns.29 Jan 2025 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lguwd2pe2s24https://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lgqfqvrdts2ebsky.app is such an amazingly bad domain it’s a miracle this site ever caught on.27 Jan 2025 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgqfqvrdts2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/dylanatsmith.com/post/3lfflukl5422oI’m using a profile photo from 2019 and I think it might just be too late to ever change it again.10 Jan 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:wsx6uh3fa4pteuscvf5foqso/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfflukl5422o