Mae Capozzi

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

I’m on vacation for one week. during that week two new models drop that apparently are changing the game…trying to wait until I’m home to try it!

haha technically I helped remove it, I didn't implement it! But in general, I've enjoyed using a merge queue and see the benefits!

Really? I’ve been an engineer building design systems for 7 years now :)

I don't think these will be production-grade but I think they are very useful for hashing out requirements better before we spend many cycles turning it into production-grade code.

4. I think that we won't really need prototyping tools as much and designers can create proof-of-concepts of entire flows that we can user test.

3. I think that it may become easier for designers to "vibe code" their own designs. They can create their own feedback loops to see how what they build works & what they may need to improve before they hand it off.

2. On our team, we're already changing how designers structure Figma files. I'm working with a designer right now to change how she sets up the file so that the LLM (and honestly humans) can read it more easily and can get to the right answers sooner

It's often the last thing they work on, and so it's the worst part. This negatively impacts our customers. I'm hopeful that we can use AI to do the easier parts, and then engineers will have time to make things look and work significantly better

1. I'm hopeful that it'll help improve the general quality of UIs. Right now I see a lot of "full-stack" engineers not understand how to build high quality UI.

Today's Frontend Infrastructure newsletter issue was about driving impact as a designer or an engineer, code-splitting your webpack bundle for performance gains, and height in CSS.

Give it a read and let me know what you think :)

maecapozzi.com/newsletter/86

#frontend #engineering #webpack

Ever since Twitter was sold, it's been really hard for me to grow my newsletter. I can't seem to reach the same people with the same level of interest. Is Bluesky the place?

This week's newsletter touched on debugging the TypeScript compiler, pnpm catalog, sharing assertions instead of suggestions, and more!

maecapozzi.com/newsletter/85

The Lucy Dacus concert was fucking fantastic.

Using a cursor a whole lot these days and yes...it can be very fast. But also I think my brain is dying??

Read it on the blog!

maecapozzi.com/blog/use-the...

We'll cover:

- How @layer solves real-world cascade issues
- How design systems maintainers can use @layer to make sure their components are always over-rideable, even when they don't control the build system.
- Practical examples you can try right now

In my latest blog post, I break down how to use @layer to ensure some styles are always over-rideable — no matter how stylesheets are ordered.

@layer is a game-changer for writing more deterministic CSS by explicitly defining cascade layers. This is especially useful for design system maintainers who don't always control the environments where their components are used.

When it comes to CSS architecture in complex projects, maintaining control over the cascade is crucial.

If you've ever battled with unpredictable CSS loading orders due to bundlers like Vite or Webpack, this week's deep dive is for you.

#css #cssarchitecture #frontendplatform #@layer

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It’s an ad for Gavin Newsom’s dumbass podcast where he’s apparently all excited to have fuckin Steve Bannon as a guest.

Remember to never again vote for Gavin Newsom for anything unless it’s to be Governor of the Bottom of The Sea

Hat with the words “please do not talk to me about AI I will kill myself”

Visiting friends in New York

There were lots of things that were great about using Cursor and a bunch of things that were very very not great.

I’m working on a blog post about my learnings here too. Lots of good stuff to distract myself in from the real world!

I’m looking forward to shipping the change this week. Can’t wait for @laurasalad.bsky.social’s fantastic design work to see the light of day.

Spent some time this weekend redesigning my website using Cursor. I’ve been holding off because I thought it’d take me a long time to code it. With Cursor it probably took about ~4 hours.

Not the british royal saying this lol

Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor.

The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!

This is the power of representation.

When people spend time learning to write they’re told they’ll never get a job; but if people think a computer system has learned how to write, they act like it can do anybody’s job

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”