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Alan B Smith
@alanbsmith.bsky.social
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👨‍💻 Principal Design System Engineer
🥃 Carb & cocktail fan account
🏔️ Boulder, CO
🅰️ Arsenal FC
⚽️ Il calcio é della gente
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Made some cinnamon rolls. Merry Christmas and happy holidays, friends. ❤️🎄
December 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Italian espresso martini. Cheers, friends.
A dark brown espresso martini in a chilled Nick & Nora glass. It has a nice layer of creamy foam on top and is garnished with three coffee beans in the center.
December 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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A fool-proof remedy for Sunday scaries at our house: Oatmeal raisin cookies 🍪

I keep the recipe here: github.com/alanbsmith/r...
A small plate of oatmeal raisin cookies with the rest of the batch resting on a mat.
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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I haven’t done any DNA testing, but I’m pretty sure mine is descended from Muppets.
Rosie, our goldendoodle, sitting up on the couch looking like a muppet.
December 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Late night pie prep. 🌙 🥧
A homemade apple pie that’s almost ready to go in the oven. The pie is topped with some broad lattice strips. Same apple pie fresh out of the oven resting on a rack. The lattice strips are now a nice golden brown.
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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A Fall classic: the Flannel Shirt.
A light brown hazy cocktail in a chilled rocks glass with an orange peel garnish. The glass is sitting on an orange flannel shirt.
October 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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We wrapped up our soccer season today. I coach because I love it, but these gifts are nice too. 🥰
Two gifts from the team: A black stainless steel tumbler that says “Best Coach Ever” and a pink soccer ball that all the players signed.
October 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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#NWSL teams are always a little subversive, and it’s awesome. 💊😂
Two Gotham on-field medics attending to an injured player. Their med kit bags have giant Tylenol brand logos on the side, strategically placed directly toward the camera.
September 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The genius of classic cocktails are the simple components which are thoughtfully composed.
An Old Fashioned cocktail in a rocks glass with a large clear ice cube and thin orange slice. The ice has a geometric pattern stamped on top.
September 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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I carved some ice cubes today to celebrate the release. Cheers to design system maintainers. 🥃 🧊
September 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Made some pies. 🍕
A Neapolitan style Margherita pizza A Neapolitan style pizza with pancetta, fresh corn, and crème fraîche. A Negroni in a rocks glass with a large, clear ice cube and an orange slice.
September 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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A nice personal milestone for learning Italian. ~50 hours / 130 lessons for 100 days. I’m also supplementing with audiobooks and podcasts which are helpful. 🇮🇹
A screenshot from Babbel. “You’re on a 100-day streak.”
September 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Carved a batch of ice cubes this week. Pretty happy with the result. Love how the cube disappears.
August 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Amazing color! 😍

I didn’t do any of the work for these, but I’m glad I get to enjoy them.
Pink dahlias from our garden
August 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Made a Boulevardier. This one goes out to the CPB and viewers like you. ❤️
A Boulevardier in a faceted rocks glass. The small floof in the background is the wisp of a doodle tail. 🐕
August 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Kind of stormy this afternoon. A Black Manhattan felt appropriate. Enjoying this as the thundering clouds roll over.

Cheers, friends. Good Friday. 🍸
A chilled Nick & Nora glass with a dark cocktail resting at the bottom. A maraschino cherry as the garnish.
July 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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If you’re looking for a couple goof-around summer reads, these are fun.
A Negroni and two small books. - Spritz by Talia Baiocchi & Leslie Pariseau - Negroni by Matt Hranek
July 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The timeline is tense. Coping a bit by making apple pie and vanilla ice cream (not pictured).
A golden brown apple pie cooling on a wire rack. The top crust is an overlapping lattice.
July 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Espresso forte e un pó gelato alla limone. 🍋
A Gibraltar glass with a single scoop of lemon gelato and another with espresso.
June 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Made some sorbet and cones. Not a bad Father’s Day.
A single scoop of bright red strawberry sorbet in a waffle cone. A collection of waffle cones and waffle bowls and a quart or strawberry sorbet
June 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I discovered the ice cream machine is also proficient at making frozen sangria. It’s going to be a frozen cocktail summer.

Cheers, friends! Happy Friday!
A rocks glass with red frozen sangria garnished with an orange slice and berries.
June 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Canvas, our design system, turned eight years old today, so we threw a little party for it. I’ve been working on this system for over five years now, and in a lot of ways it feels like we’ve grown up together.

Cheers Canvas. I’ve learned a lot from you. 🥂🍾
An assortment of blue and white frosted donuts that spell out “CANVAS,” and a giant donut cake with the design system logo “C” on it.
June 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Not too bad.
Pistachio gelato in a small homemade waffle cone.
June 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Continuing with my ice cream hobby by learning to make cones.
Four golden brown ice cream cones resting on a plate.
June 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Busy day.
Constant context switching.
Came home and made pasta.
Refreshed.
A large plate full of bundles of fresh golden fettuccine waiting to go in the pot.
June 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM