Dan Miller
@dmiller.bsky.social
Software Engineer @ Figma
Views are entirely my own, no one has paid me enough to be a spokesperson
Views are entirely my own, no one has paid me enough to be a spokesperson
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Introducing Figma Sites
Take your designs straight to the web. With code and AI coming soon.
Source: us
youtu.be/BU-yBN799EQ
Take your designs straight to the web. With code and AI coming soon.
Source: us
youtu.be/BU-yBN799EQ
Figma Sites
YouTube video by Figma
youtu.be
May 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Introducing Figma Sites
Take your designs straight to the web. With code and AI coming soon.
Source: us
youtu.be/BU-yBN799EQ
Take your designs straight to the web. With code and AI coming soon.
Source: us
youtu.be/BU-yBN799EQ
Wait the Apple Intelligence stuff is still behind a waitlist??
October 28, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Wait the Apple Intelligence stuff is still behind a waitlist??
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Maybe this is a good time to announce that I also raised a $15M series A, and it will be spent entirely on bots that reply "have you tried jj" on every article about git that appears on hacker news
Maybe this is a good time to announce that I also raised a $15M series A, and it will be spent entirely on decringing my account
Maybe this is a good time to announce that I also raised a $15M series A, but I won’t be prioritizing the user experience and will be monetizing immediately
October 24, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Maybe this is a good time to announce that I also raised a $15M series A, and it will be spent entirely on bots that reply "have you tried jj" on every article about git that appears on hacker news
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Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent
Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent
Isolated for six months one winter, a group of scientists changed how they spoke.
www.bbc.com
February 25, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent
It's interesting that in the US _____ dealer always has a negative connotation:
Drug dealer
Arms dealer
Car dealer
Drug dealer
Arms dealer
Car dealer
September 19, 2023 at 4:57 PM
It's interesting that in the US _____ dealer always has a negative connotation:
Drug dealer
Arms dealer
Car dealer
Drug dealer
Arms dealer
Car dealer
I wrote a quick blog post on the Replay blog about our "Cloud Development Environment", a word that is coming in to vogue now but a technique that we have been using for years
blog.replay.io/our-cloud-de...
blog.replay.io/our-cloud-de...
Our Cloud Development Environment Journey
blog.replay.io
September 13, 2023 at 8:58 PM
I wrote a quick blog post on the Replay blog about our "Cloud Development Environment", a word that is coming in to vogue now but a technique that we have been using for years
blog.replay.io/our-cloud-de...
blog.replay.io/our-cloud-de...
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amusing confirmation prompt from obsidian
September 5, 2023 at 10:38 PM
amusing confirmation prompt from obsidian
What is the state of the art in making git fast for enormous repos that is available to us peons in open source land?
July 20, 2023 at 6:27 PM
What is the state of the art in making git fast for enormous repos that is available to us peons in open source land?
Always cool to see someone try something you made and really get it 🥹
https://youtu.be/puHAiZBdjFw?t=281
https://youtu.be/puHAiZBdjFw?t=281
July 20, 2023 at 12:02 AM
Always cool to see someone try something you made and really get it 🥹
https://youtu.be/puHAiZBdjFw?t=281
https://youtu.be/puHAiZBdjFw?t=281
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I wanna talk to other marginalised/underrepresented folks in tech who are in leadership positions (either by role, responsibilities or simply because you got to) about the shit we have to deal with day after day.
Is there already a community like that out there?
July 12, 2023 at 3:34 PM
I wanna talk to other marginalised/underrepresented folks in tech who are in leadership positions (either by role, responsibilities or simply because you got to) about the shit we have to deal with day after day.
Is there already a community like that out there?
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I feel like word problems in math class would've been a lot more realistic if they just started describing random stuff, included *mostly* irrelevant detail, and then never clearly state any sort of question at all.
July 10, 2023 at 9:31 PM
I feel like word problems in math class would've been a lot more realistic if they just started describing random stuff, included *mostly* irrelevant detail, and then never clearly state any sort of question at all.
*Technically* I got paid to write assembly this week.
Did I know what I was doing? No.
Did it work? Also no.
Did I know what I was doing? No.
Did it work? Also no.
July 8, 2023 at 4:22 PM
*Technically* I got paid to write assembly this week.
Did I know what I was doing? No.
Did it work? Also no.
Did I know what I was doing? No.
Did it work? Also no.
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I guess that their moms figured out a safe way to let the boys have their cage match.
Twitter is threatening to sue Instagram’s parent company Meta over its launch of Threads, report says https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/twitter-lawsuit-threatens-to-sue-meta-threads-zuckerberg-musk/
Twitter is threatening to sue Instagram's parent company Meta over its launch of Threads, report say...
Musk’s personal lawyer sent a letter to Zuckerberg accusing Meta of poaching dozens of former employees, among other things, Semafor reported.
fortune.com
July 6, 2023 at 9:12 PM
I guess that their moms figured out a safe way to let the boys have their cage match.
Learning nix is really bringing me back to my early days of learning computers: blindly copy pasting things with no knowledge of how things work, then trying to fill in the blanks when I get an error message.
July 2, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Learning nix is really bringing me back to my early days of learning computers: blindly copy pasting things with no knowledge of how things work, then trying to fill in the blanks when I get an error message.
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Twitter now prevents you from seeing post when you're logged out. The first time that it has cloned a Bluesky feature!
June 30, 2023 at 5:22 PM
Twitter now prevents you from seeing post when you're logged out. The first time that it has cloned a Bluesky feature!
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It's Friday and you know what that means (it means that it's time to post manuls)
June 16, 2023 at 5:04 PM
It's Friday and you know what that means (it means that it's time to post manuls)
🚀 Today we're releasing Replay for Test Suites!
Our goal is to eliminate the Flaky Test once and for all.
Flaky tests are the classic hard-to-reproduce problem.
How do you debug a test that fails 1% of the time? Get a time traveling debugger!
Our goal is to eliminate the Flaky Test once and for all.
Flaky tests are the classic hard-to-reproduce problem.
How do you debug a test that fails 1% of the time? Get a time traveling debugger!
Replay for Test Suites
Today we are thrilled to release Replay for Test Suites. Test Suites join Bug Reports as an entirely new way to capture and fix hard-to-repro bugs.
blog.replay.io
June 14, 2023 at 3:50 PM
🚀 Today we're releasing Replay for Test Suites!
Our goal is to eliminate the Flaky Test once and for all.
Flaky tests are the classic hard-to-reproduce problem.
How do you debug a test that fails 1% of the time? Get a time traveling debugger!
Our goal is to eliminate the Flaky Test once and for all.
Flaky tests are the classic hard-to-reproduce problem.
How do you debug a test that fails 1% of the time? Get a time traveling debugger!
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I try to maintain pretty meaningful boundaries when it comes to publicly sharing about my family and my personal life but jesus fucking christ LOOK at the shower curtain in my aunt’s guest bathroom
June 10, 2023 at 1:23 AM
I try to maintain pretty meaningful boundaries when it comes to publicly sharing about my family and my personal life but jesus fucking christ LOOK at the shower curtain in my aunt’s guest bathroom
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So while Air Canada fell over and stranded me in YYZ, I decided to do the logical thing with this information. I implemented a TUN device that transits IPv6 packets over AWS S3.
Find out more here: https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue
Find out more here: https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue
Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough - Xe's Blog
xeiaso.net
June 4, 2023 at 1:26 PM
So while Air Canada fell over and stranded me in YYZ, I decided to do the logical thing with this information. I implemented a TUN device that transits IPv6 packets over AWS S3.
Find out more here: https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue
Find out more here: https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue
The only people left on Twitter that I follow are CEOs and Super Smash Bros. players.
May 31, 2023 at 10:48 PM
The only people left on Twitter that I follow are CEOs and Super Smash Bros. players.
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To know me is to know that I have been OBSESSED with this conference for years. It pains me to know this is the last one, but I’m excited to keynote alongside the homie @scott.hanselman.com
It’s going to be a phenomenal time and I look forward to sending this baby out with a bang 💥
It’s going to be a phenomenal time and I look forward to sending this baby out with a bang 💥
Strange Loop 2023 will be the last for the conference, and most of the program is available now! https://thestrangeloop.com/2023/sessions.html - check it out and get your tickets now before it sells out!
thestrangeloop.com
May 31, 2023 at 2:56 PM
To know me is to know that I have been OBSESSED with this conference for years. It pains me to know this is the last one, but I’m excited to keynote alongside the homie @scott.hanselman.com
It’s going to be a phenomenal time and I look forward to sending this baby out with a bang 💥
It’s going to be a phenomenal time and I look forward to sending this baby out with a bang 💥