Jesse Gardner
@plas.tc
🗽 Design systems and a11y for New York State
🍎 Aspiring orchardist and candlemaker
🍎 Aspiring orchardist and candlemaker
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Jesse Gardner
@plas.tc
· Nov 11
Hi BlueSky! I’m building a design system and accessibility team for New York State. Give me a follow if you want to talk more about creating usable interfaces at scale in the government space. 👋🏻
IRS Direct File accomplished levels of satisfaction higher than Apple or Netflix… without firing tens of thousands of users. #cfasummit
May 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
IRS Direct File accomplished levels of satisfaction higher than Apple or Netflix… without firing tens of thousands of users. #cfasummit
Will you be at @codeforamerica.org Summit 2025? Let's meet up!
I'll be in D.C. May 28-30 and looking forward to networking with others in #civictech. Excited to talk about the #accessibility and #designsystem work our team is doing at New York State!
I'll be in D.C. May 28-30 and looking forward to networking with others in #civictech. Excited to talk about the #accessibility and #designsystem work our team is doing at New York State!
May 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Will you be at @codeforamerica.org Summit 2025? Let's meet up!
I'll be in D.C. May 28-30 and looking forward to networking with others in #civictech. Excited to talk about the #accessibility and #designsystem work our team is doing at New York State!
I'll be in D.C. May 28-30 and looking forward to networking with others in #civictech. Excited to talk about the #accessibility and #designsystem work our team is doing at New York State!
Nearly 1 in 4 New Yorkers live with a disability. Visible or invisible, lifelong or temporary — it’s something that will eventually affect everyone. Excited to be part of building a Central Accessibility Team at New York State. Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #gaad #accessibility #a11y
May 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Nearly 1 in 4 New Yorkers live with a disability. Visible or invisible, lifelong or temporary — it’s something that will eventually affect everyone. Excited to be part of building a Central Accessibility Team at New York State. Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #gaad #accessibility #a11y
God grant me the serenity
To grieve what I cannot ignore,
The courage to fight off ICE agents
When the come for my neighbors,
And the wisdom to know that
Silence is complicity.
To grieve what I cannot ignore,
The courage to fight off ICE agents
When the come for my neighbors,
And the wisdom to know that
Silence is complicity.
May 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
God grant me the serenity
To grieve what I cannot ignore,
The courage to fight off ICE agents
When the come for my neighbors,
And the wisdom to know that
Silence is complicity.
To grieve what I cannot ignore,
The courage to fight off ICE agents
When the come for my neighbors,
And the wisdom to know that
Silence is complicity.
Reposted by Jesse Gardner
It's getting real! Learn a bit about the NYS Design System project with Director of User Research Jesse Gardner @plas.tc and DS Team Lead Eric Steinborn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfF...
IT'S a Tech Podcast, Episode 3: Human-Centered Design
YouTube video by NYS ITS
www.youtube.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It's getting real! Learn a bit about the NYS Design System project with Director of User Research Jesse Gardner @plas.tc and DS Team Lead Eric Steinborn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfF...
Lucky enough to spend time exploring NYC with this girl. Enjoying every moment! 💕
March 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Lucky enough to spend time exploring NYC with this girl. Enjoying every moment! 💕
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
When your wife and kids sneak into your ChatGPT account.
February 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
When your wife and kids sneak into your ChatGPT account.
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Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
The Data Rescue Tracker
We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...
www.datarescueproject.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...
The Constitution is not a self-correcting document. It’s a legal framework with checks and balances that only works if enough people collectively demand it to.
February 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Constitution is not a self-correcting document. It’s a legal framework with checks and balances that only works if enough people collectively demand it to.
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Employees in any (US federal) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave 'effective immediately.'"
Notice ACCESSIBILITY is in there too.
I feel sick.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...
Notice ACCESSIBILITY is in there too.
I feel sick.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...
White House orders government DEI employees to be placed on leave | CNN Politics
Employees in any federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave “effective immediately,” according to a post from White House press secretar...
www.cnn.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Employees in any (US federal) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave 'effective immediately.'"
Notice ACCESSIBILITY is in there too.
I feel sick.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...
Notice ACCESSIBILITY is in there too.
I feel sick.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...
File analysis tool to detect non-inclusive language in your source code.
Woke - Detect non-inclusive language in your source code
Detect non-inclusive language in your source code.
docs.getwoke.tech
January 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
File analysis tool to detect non-inclusive language in your source code.
here lies Jesse Gardner
who vowed never to shilly-shally
but could not resist a good dilly-dally
who vowed never to shilly-shally
but could not resist a good dilly-dally
January 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
here lies Jesse Gardner
who vowed never to shilly-shally
but could not resist a good dilly-dally
who vowed never to shilly-shally
but could not resist a good dilly-dally
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Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)
First day on the slopes. Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 5:06 PM
First day on the slopes. Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄
Having just gone through a big token naming effort, I can tell you it can be challenging. I’ve had a small peek into their recommendations, and can tell you it’s chock-full of good practical ideas.
📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! I'm excited to announce that we're launching a new online course called Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOD2...
This deep-dive course will teach you all you need to master design tokens. Learn more and preorder here: designtokenscourse.com
This deep-dive course will teach you all you need to master design tokens. Learn more and preorder here: designtokenscourse.com
Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens Course Trailer
YouTube video by Brad Frost
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Having just gone through a big token naming effort, I can tell you it can be challenging. I’ve had a small peek into their recommendations, and can tell you it’s chock-full of good practical ideas.
Spent the day proctoring exams for a Science Olympiad competition.
December 7, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Spent the day proctoring exams for a Science Olympiad competition.
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Imagine if @figma.com had a wrapped
December 4, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Imagine if @figma.com had a wrapped
It amazes me how much of a drug mindless entertainment can be. I don’t need to face difficult things, I can just lose myself to the endless stream of sensible chuckles until sleep takes me.
December 3, 2024 at 2:33 AM
It amazes me how much of a drug mindless entertainment can be. I don’t need to face difficult things, I can just lose myself to the endless stream of sensible chuckles until sleep takes me.
Trying to remind myself of Epicurus’ words: “The wise person’s misfortune is better than the fool’s prosperity.”
November 30, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Trying to remind myself of Epicurus’ words: “The wise person’s misfortune is better than the fool’s prosperity.”
Our team is building out a design system for NYS, and one of the hardest tasks has been developing a library of design tokens that are semantically rich, understandable, themeable, and useful across platforms.
Naming really is one of the two hardest things in computer science.
Naming really is one of the two hardest things in computer science.
November 25, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Our team is building out a design system for NYS, and one of the hardest tasks has been developing a library of design tokens that are semantically rich, understandable, themeable, and useful across platforms.
Naming really is one of the two hardest things in computer science.
Naming really is one of the two hardest things in computer science.
I know people who voted for Trump who told me that can’t imagine him shutting down the DoE. “He doesn’t have the power to do that, does he?”
This bill was introduced last Thursday:
www.rounds.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
This bill was introduced last Thursday:
www.rounds.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.rounds.senate.gov
November 25, 2024 at 3:43 AM
I know people who voted for Trump who told me that can’t imagine him shutting down the DoE. “He doesn’t have the power to do that, does he?”
This bill was introduced last Thursday:
www.rounds.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
This bill was introduced last Thursday:
www.rounds.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
If I were a talented musician, I’d write a song about the brevity of life, and record a verse in each phase of my my life, and have it played at my funeral.
November 21, 2024 at 1:26 PM
If I were a talented musician, I’d write a song about the brevity of life, and record a verse in each phase of my my life, and have it played at my funeral.