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My grandfather, Dick, was a Korea war veteran who founded a manufacturing company. He was a grizzly, old school guy with a bit of a drinking problem. As the legend goes HAM was the only thing that brought him joy. He had an entire room of the house with equipment that nobody was allowed in, until I was born (first grandchild privileges).

I always think of him when I see ham crop up online. The dish in their back yard was enormous. But yeah, in my head, ham is basically populated with guys like this, cranky old men who start ball slide part companies and smoke 2 packs a day

Yeah - all of that sounds like a pain. No argument from me. Sometimes, things rot and we have a bigger mess than before.

There are many circumstances in which a design system is at best a lateral move and at worst a huge distraction. My issue with GP sentiment is that many of the hardcore pragmatists here on this lovely discussion board have one or two bad experiences and throw the baby out with the bathwater entirely. I just wanted to be a voice on the other side of the aisle.

So have I, and they weren't. So we're no better off where we started. I at least made concessions on my side of the argument, but you are free to dig your heels in.

I hear this take often - particularly on HN - and I think that it is well off base IME. For many small + medium sized companies, sure, this can be true. For a scaled org with 10s or even 100s of teams building UI having an internal design system aligned perfectly with brand/marketing/content/accessibility makes a ton of sense.

It's not about reinventing the wheel out of ego. It's about "We have 150 dev teams and want to make sure there's a documented way that our company is aligned upon for building things like forms for our customers". How should the company consistently apply error states? What a11y affordances are we baking into our UI? Radix and shadcn provide much of that out of the box, are they doing it in such a way that complies with our internal controls?

Maybe for some managers it's about ego and ownership above all else. Yes, those teams probably should be using MUI, or a themed Radix, or something. But those managers are going to suck no matter what.

Can't believe I'm saying it but twitter has become the main spot for me. Read.cv as others have pointed out is also good. Way less signal and noise than X of course, but the content is almost always very high quality.

Yes. Why care about the factual accuracy/level of insight/caliber of the content I put out when the only thing that matters is that it gets seen?

Agree on desktop, not so much on mobile

The cipher is for any email spam crawlers, not hiding my identity. Pretty common practice on this site.

if the author of this has any interest in collaborating with a designer please let me know. Huge fan of this and would be happy to contribute. peter at peter[HNusername].co

Heh, that sounds _exactly_ like my feed as well. There also is a calendar of dogs pooping that I've gotten about a hundred times. Seeking Arrangements also showing me tons of ads despite the fact that I make it no secret that I'm happily married on twitter, which is funny too.

Design twitter is still very hot which is why I recently rejoined, to connect with more folks in my industry. But the ads(and bots) definitely seem like a much worse problem than when I had an account in 2016.

That sounds cool. I'm glad you remember it fondly - not to gripe among the privileged, but I have never worked in a cool office like that. With all of the endlessly discussed disadvantages and implications (maybe the employer is doing it so you're secretly expected to be there absurd hours, whatever, I don't know), I do always wonder what it would have been like to have spent some of my career anywhere besides my house and a building out of "Office Space".

At this phase, to your point, it's the commute for me. 15-20 sounds perfect, I can't do 1 hour anymore.

Worst commute I ever had was fresh out of school, I worked briefly as a contractor at SimpliSafe when they were 6 people in an office. I would walk a mile from my apartment in Attleboro, MA to the MBTA commuter rail station, 45 minutes into South Station, change to the green line, change to the red line at Park St, 20-30minutes to Inman Square, then walk another, I don't know. 20 minutes? So, depending on the day - which trains I caught, how congested the T was, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1h45m - 2h15m, one way? In January in Cambridge MA - yeesh!

On some level I regret not sticking around, I didn't last long and boy did they blow up. I probably would have died on that commute at some point from a heart attack at 22, though.