Alexis Taylor
alexi5.bsky.social
Alexis Taylor
@alexi5.bsky.social
Software and design nerd. Running startups for 10+ years. 🍁

Founder @ umso.com
never stop being you, @golang.org
July 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
take that, aws bill!
March 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
this was some next level sleepy code
March 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Optimizing our scroll-triggered animation logic ended up looking like a science fair
February 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Is this lazy? maybe. Does it work? Oh yeah!
February 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Life hack for small teams: keeping a log of things you're doing day to day. This helps everyone stay in sync and tbh it helps me remember what I've been up to. Can also help with short-term planning and reducing overall cognitive load
February 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
slack webhook avatars are an important form of artistic expression
February 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
just a smaaaaaall little feature we've been working on that spans nearly all of our services 👀
February 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
sure, why not Adobe
January 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Really getting into motion graphics these days 🤣 I mean jokes aside I did this within 15 minutes of opening the animation app for the first time ever so not bad.
January 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
We finally redesigned our signup screen because it's mostly been unchanged since 2018 🙈. Conversion rate is up 12% ⬆️ and conversion time is down 16% ⬇️. Not bad!
January 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Did you know that you can make your life 10x better just by adding your favorite gremlin to your infrastructure diagrams?
January 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It's the new year! Don't forget to update the year in your footer and increase your border radius by 2 pixels.
December 31, 2024 at 9:55 PM
omg just found what's probably my favorite bug of the year
December 31, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Proud of coming up with this CSS: I want half a section "within" a with a max with boundary and the other take up the rest of the viewport. Can't use a max-width parent container. So instead calculating the left offset to be the same it would've been if there was a parent container with max-with
December 11, 2024 at 7:13 PM
peak productivity
December 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM
maybe time to restart
December 3, 2024 at 7:44 PM
oh no 🙈
December 2, 2024 at 12:39 AM
I used to build very crammed UIs thinking that everything should be as few clicks away as possible and that leaving the page would disrupt the experience. Turns out that's not always a good idea. Our site settings grew into a little monster but i'm super happy with our revamp.
December 1, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Two weeks of shipping from the umso team 🚀✨
November 29, 2024 at 7:54 PM