#Config2024 was a blast! Seeing my face on a screen during the opening keynote was a total surprise and made me so grateful for being a part of this talented community. 🧵

Accessible Palette strikes back! 🌈🧪 These games are so wild and I'm so here for it.

Not what you want to see an hour away from the marina.

This is too much fun! What an incredible roster to be a part of 🥰 Spent an hour assembling my dream team and just browsing through profiles. backyarddesigners.club

It was my 4th Config, and it remains one of my favorite weeks every year – refueling my soul and kicking my butt to try new things. This one was extra special, as our entire @TextlaHQ product team joined for a week, and on Thursday my family flew in for a long weekend in SF. A few highlights: • Meeting old and new friends from @figma and the design community is why I make the pilgrimage every year. Our industry changes, but people are always worth the trip. • Our original 2023 “Figma like the pros” crew stayed together! We missed @molly_hellmuth and @femkesvs this year, but it was great to spend time with @moonlearning, @minor_axis, @ideaisall, and @joeyabanks again! • For some folks on my team, it was the first Config and it was fun to be reminded how simultaneously inspiring and overwhelming it could be! We had a wonderful time connecting as a smaller group. • Who knew you need to go to SF to get together with the Philly crew? @chuise, Jenny Hou, and I met a few months ago through the Figma community, and now I finally met Christine Sheller in person! • Speaking of Philly, nothing is like coming from summer weather to 60F overcast and an earthquake warning in SF! • Taking the first row seats with @bfigas_ to see our friend @sochar__ deliver a total banger of a talk! Don't miss the recording of his talk “The marathon designer.” • It’s hard to have a proper conversation at a giant event, but I was happy to run into @ridd_design, @designertom, @_joelmllr, Jwen Yep, @_mordechai, and Alex Dee. • Figma’s Advocates are the glue that keeps this community together. Thank you so much to @negativespaceca, @rogie, @miggi, @GregHuntoon, @biznissjake, @alexiadanton, @disco_lu, Jordan Scott, and Liz Roberts for everything you do. • Detach 2026 was a blast! These guys know how to throw a party. I was tired and planned to come for an hour, but stayed until the final call. I bet there was some hearing loss the next day, but I finally caught up with folks I didn’t see at Config – @mds, @tomjohndesign, @leemunroe, and Kim Alban. • Great touristy weekend with the family – visited Battery Spencer and Muir Woods, went to the East Bay for dinner with friends, saw Matisse's exhibition in SFMOMA, and wrapped the trip with lunch at Hog Island Oysters Co before our red-eye flight on Sunday.

Such a great interview. Kris’ approach really resonates with me and I’m fascinated by systems he has built for self-discovery. Can’t wait for Neuma!

Don’t like Jira, so now my agent syncs my open tasks to a @craftdocs collection where I can set up views that I want. Next step would be adding notes from Granola to my own local tasks. Crazy what you can do in a few prompts now.

My Git workflow isn’t keeping up with coding agents. It’s easy to generate a huge PR, but with human reviewers I still prefer smaller PRs with atomic commits. I want an agent that breaks down a large change into commits, then gives me an interactive rebase-like flow for review.

Just found out you can include stroke in Auto Layout’s total dimensions to match CSS box model. I’ll turn in my @Figma expert card on the way out.

The work on the new website was underway long before I joined Arrows, but I love the way it turned out and how it shows the product we’re building!

Web designers of the early 2000s had it all figured out.

Looking at these experiments made me think of the “tools don’t matter” narrative. You can’t explore all these ideas without strong technical skills, and at some point quantity and speed of iteration lead to quality.