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🍕 Two week alert! Two week alert! Deep Dish Swift 2024 is happening in two weeks 😱 It’s not too late to get your ticket! There are a handful left 👀

I bought an Arlo Smart Home LTE/solar camera to monitor my aunt’s house while I work on the estate. Their software is terrible and the service super unreliable. It’s still my best option, sadly. Losing recordings for a 12+ hour period seems it should be breaking an SLA?

Why is it always a battle telling someone working remotely doesn’t mean work from anywhere? Tourist visas aren’t valid for actual day to day work, taxes are hard, export restrictions are a thing, and lying to your employer about your legal work status is just dumb.

Figma is freaking great aaron.blog/2024/05/29/fig…

A lot of people in the Figma community are confused about a change we are making (not yet rolled out to everyone) that requires users to move their drafts to a team. What you should know: 1. You will still have drafts. We are just requiring that you associate your drafts with

We had an amazing podcast last week on the subject of making room at the table in tech, featuring manda ☻ , Aaron Douglas , and our podcast team. Here's a clip from the conversation featuring Susannah Skyer and Manda: tiktok.com/@kodecocodes/v…

Two big Apple Design x Figma announcements. 🎨 We just landed new iOS + iPadOS 18 design kits AND they’re available directly through new Figma UIKits. 👩🏻‍💻 SwiftUI support for Figma’s Code Connect so you can now link your designs straight to swift components! #Config2024

And that sweet sweet UI3-refreshed Desktop app looks :chef-kiss: 🫶 #Config2024

The desktop team dropped 🔥 with these updates, and the crispy icons from 𝕞𝕒𝕩𝕧𝕠𝕝𝕥𝕒𝕣 are incredible. Was a lot of fun working on this and sweating the details with the team!

I spent the last three days with my Figma Figmates looking toward the future and figuring out what’s next. It was the first time planning meetings felt energizing and I left with way more clarity.

Is it me or do most smart devices still act pretty dumb?

First time Amazon's canceled an order on my account saying it was fraud from someone trying to log in as me. Three books on management being shipped to my home address that hasn't changed in 5+ years. When I said their algorithm was wrong, the CS rep said I was incorrect. OKSURE

I'll also be over at Bluesky bsky.app/profile/astral…

I've migrated aaron.blog over to Ghost. I have to say, I'm really impressed. Conversion from WordPress was easy enough, and I got concierge help from the staff when I ran into an issue. I'm digging the concept of having a newsletter as well!

Always on the cusp of something aaron.blog/always-on-the-…

I've been getting back in the groove of writing more regularly lately. Grief has been on my mind a lot, especially with the losses of my dad, grandfather, and aunt in the past five years. I see it as a big room, like an auditorium. aaron.blog/the-auditorium…

I'm hiring an experienced Electron.js software engineer to come join the Figma Desktop app team. It's a niche role for a product that spans all of Figma's org and is the preferred experience for our designer community. job-boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/553…