Aaron Douglas
astralbodies.me
Aaron Douglas
@astralbodies.me
Head of Desktop & Mobile Engineering Figma. Ex Shopify, Automattic. Author for kodeco, 🏳️‍🌈, ADHD, 🧙, remote work, runner. Occasional DJ.
I'm hiring an experienced Electron.js software engineer to come join the @figma.com Desktop app team. It's a niche role for a product that spans all of Figma's org and is the preferred experience for our designer community.

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Software Engineer - Desktop
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
May 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Reposted by Aaron Douglas
Do you know the difference between “$2 trillion” and “$150 billion”? About $2 trillion.
April 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I've been getting back in the groove of writing more regularly lately. Grief has been on my mind a lot, especially with the losses of my dad, grandfather, and aunt in the past five years. I see it as a big room, like an auditorium. aaron.blog/the-auditori...
The Auditorium of Grief
Each grief has a voice. Sometimes they speak at once. Sometimes they’re quiet, just sitting there with you. And for a while, you just let them.
aaron.blog
April 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
That gap between the magic I know I can reach and how often it escapes me — that’s the hardest part of living in my brain.

aaron.blog/always-on-th...
Always on the cusp of something
That gap between the magic I know I can reach and how often it escapes me — that’s the hardest part of living in my brain.
aaron.blog
April 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I've migrated aaron.blog over to ghost.org. I have to say, I'm really impressed. Conversion from WordPress was easy enough, and I got concierge help from the staff when I ran into an issue. I'm digging the concept of having a newsletter as well!
The Dangling Pointer
Sh*t my brain says and forgets about
aaron.blog
April 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by Aaron Douglas
“[Thursday] at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said.”
January 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The worst thing (well one of the things) with ADHD is when I have a prescient great idea and then it's gone by the time I go to write it down.
January 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I volunteer for a local animal shelter’s second property which is a farm with horses and goats. Today I got to put them all in for the night alone on a quiet Christmas evening! 💓🐴
December 26, 2024 at 12:37 AM
I was surprised that someone already took astralbodies on the platform - but finding out I can do a custom domain to get astralbodies.me made me happy!
December 25, 2024 at 4:57 PM