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Brian Alfaro

@designbaa.bsky.social

Design Systems @Yahoo | Prev Design systems @ Washington Post | 3D club - Designer Developer Dad

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How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED
YouTube video by TED How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED

On that note
youtu.be/3lPnN8omdPA?...

02.02.2026 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Wait so you are saying that relying and speed running past fundamentals, or not critically thinking makes us dumber......

Who would of thought. I'ma ask chat gpt what it thinks about this lol ๐Ÿคฃ
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

02.02.2026 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Winning an eBay bid battle for Batwheels toys discontinued for my lil guy so we can play together with it is what really got me cheesing today.

Today is particularly special for me and the anniversary of winning a battle with my mental health and smiling at the small things. Feeling grateful ๐Ÿฅฒโฃ๏ธ

15.01.2026 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for adding a few more seconds to my average

12.01.2026 11:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At the Post, we did it as a method for buy-in and consolidating trust. We eventually abstracted the system out and kept a smaller source of business logic components that was powered by the design system and helped folks follow a contribution model.

09.01.2026 04:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#00cfff nice try almost had me

09.01.2026 04:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tailwind needs ads/sales because the OS community consumes without paying. Non-profit status won't help it just forces the team to chase grants instead of shipping code. Potential sustainable path isn't donations, it's Open Core: keep the base free, but monetize enterprise tools.

08.01.2026 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a brown dog wearing a pink collar is laying on a couch ALT: a brown dog wearing a pink collar is laying on a couch

But does it make sense lol

08.01.2026 03:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€‹Who decided this? ๐Ÿ˜ฉ
โ€‹โŒ background-color: linear-gradient(...)
โœ… background-image: linear-gradient(...)

โ€‹Forget shorthand..like how is a gradient technically an "image"?! ๐Ÿ˜† Is it just to enforce a solid color fallback?

โ€‹Make it make sense. ๐Ÿ‘‡
โ€‹#CSS #WebDev #Frontend

07.01.2026 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites
YouTube video by Y Combinator Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites

Head of design of Cursor roasting start up sites made by cursor. I think it's both a curse of Y combinator slop and Ai slop. I appreciate Ryo keeping it real, shows there is a lot of value of designers and engineers.

"You want to avoid the typical ai slop..."

youtu.be/RynySryqM_0?...

07.01.2026 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even thinking about work is exhausting

07.01.2026 13:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A New Kind of AI Is Emerging And Its Better Than LLMS?
YouTube video by TheAIGRID A New Kind of AI Is Emerging And Its Better Than LLMS?

๐Ÿค” Human language/coding language has always slowed down computers. It's intentionally there for us to understand it and speak to it but a computer doesn't have to talk like us
If this catches on it could be a huge pivot, but also a creepy pivot. Truly just trusting a robot

youtu.be/Cis57hC3KcM?...

05.01.2026 00:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Scrambled Letters Daily word game where you try to guess the word of the day from a set of scrambled letters

I'm am some trash at my own game....but I plan to play everyday for this year lol ๐Ÿ˜† idk how I did not get the word sooner.

๐Ÿฅš ๐Ÿณ ๐Ÿณ ๐Ÿณ ๐Ÿณ I unscrambled todays word www.scrambledletters.com

03.01.2026 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Let's make 2026 the year to make web simple again. Not everything needs to be an app, sometimes its just idk a website. ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ

01.01.2026 04:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Scrambled Letters Daily word game where you try to guess the word of the day from a set of scrambled letters

๐Ÿฅš ๐Ÿฅš ๐Ÿฅš ๐Ÿณ ๐Ÿณ I unscrambled todays word www.scrambledletters.com

31.12.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For the new year to come, I am really going to give this Bluesky a try. Hey, that rhymes. You will be hearing more from me on here.

30.12.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon cat playing a trombone with the words sad trombone above it Alt: a cartoon cat playing a trombone with the words sad trombone above it

thehackernews.com/2025/05/mali...

Hacking the vibe

10.05.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was reviewing API props with the team and showed a doc using multi-color.

They said multicolor (no dash) is better.

I said, โ€œThatโ€™s where I draw the line!"

(because the dashโ€ฆ is a line.)

Iโ€™ll see myself out.

30.04.2025 23:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I totally agree with all your points. Great write-up! One thing we made sure to do my time at the Washington Post was to ensure that any props that were not code had a prefix ๐Ÿ„ต so folks had a sign that it was a figma only prop as I found somethings because of the tool just had to exist

04.12.2024 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for this list. I think I'll start using blue sky more.

17.11.2024 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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