Carl Dunker

Writer, photographer, and Oxford comma enthusiast. Content Strategist @YML_co.

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@LansingMIFacts @nbickel “Ist das nicht ein Schnitzelbank? Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank.”

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I may be an outlier, but it’s not New Years to me unless I’m hearing @vornietom shouting “GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD!” as @BrennanLM makes collapsing crystal noises.

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@Amy_Hupe 1. Right-size your design system to the maturity of your organization. Going too far too fast will doom you to failure.

2. Design system stakeholders and extremely zealous designers who see the promise of a fully mature, integrated design system.

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@RosemaryCard For me? Petty much a halfway decent bourbon, maybe a good scarf or cardigan, a good book, and maybe a DND dice set?

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@ImMeganCollins “It’ll do till the mess gets here.” No Country for Old Men

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This is just such a delight!

[Karen Boss 🦩 @kbworld33]

Back in June, I help my mom clean out her pool shed. There's a strand of old twinkle lights with plastic flamingos. "Throw them out," she says. "They don't work." But I see that the flamingos came off easily, so I start to pull them off. "I can do something with these."

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There are few things that get under my skin like seeing a wrong OG image in a project I’d worked on years ago.

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@mulegirl Partly because a lot of the smart content folks I follow are here, partly because I haven’t found a good alternative, and partly because if this thing implodes, it should be a wild show.

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@Amy_Hupe I've done both, with more of an emphasis on how the org. approaches design as a whole.

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@mulegirl The Great Loyalty Oath Crusade?

[Marco Rogers @polotek]

Tech debt is management's fault! They want things delivered fast instead of doing it correctly!"

Okay, how long to do it correctly?

"Anywhere from a weekend to 3 years. And also don't talk to me at all until I finish. And my paycheck better show up on time too."

🤪

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

[the last remaining Twitter software engineer quietly enters the mainframe room and shuts the door; security camera audio picks up the faint sound of “A Bicycle Built for Two” before the feed is lost]

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@CakeContent He was incredibly influential for being a very background character in interior design, and his greatest invention—the reconfigurable wall panel—was used exactly how he said you shouldn’t use it: as a cubicle.

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The ever-present challenge of communicating strategy to folks: What's smart isn't snazzy.

[https://gerardkcohen.me @gerardkcohen]

I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words. 🧵

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@samreich Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but @pannapacker is a favorite of mine in the Higher Ed space.

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@mulegirl The Clash rendition of “I Fought the Law”

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@Amy_Hupe Daniel Pink’s talk on motivation, if only because he cites my (almost) namesake, Karl Duncker.