Daisy Smith 🍊

Software Engineer @buffer. – Previous Fiver @google creative labs, Engineer @stinkstudios, @wonderbly. @DomainEng

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

I'm an advocate for being open about mental health, I suffer from depression & anxiety, and most days I struggle to get out of bed, so I built this with @arduino to bring a lil joy to my mornings. 😍
I woke up pretty excited this morning! 🎉
#Arduino #Mentalhealth #nodejs

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Vibe Island is what actually makes all of this possible — orchestrating multiple agents across worktrees without losing the plot.

Still always chasing that groove, but the groove itself keeps getting better ✨

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

What's a game-changer in your coding stack right now? curious what Im missing 👀

been thinking about how much my engineering workflow has shifted in the last while — and it's kind of wild that it just keeps getting better 🏝️

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Used to just use Claude. That was the whole stack. got me pretty far honestly.
Then Codex entered the chat — now it handles the planning, brainstorming, research, and investigation side of things. total game changer for the upstream thinking.

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Vibe Island unlocked a whole new gear 🏝️✨

what used to be 3 worktrees + a couple brainstorm tabs is now 5 worktrees with 10+ agents humming in parallel — genuinely the productivity cheat code i didn't know i needed

https://t.co/LDv3zgUWkK

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

🏆 Two weeks ago my brother destroyed my Sudoku confidence. So I've been practising — Expert every day since. New best time: 2:21.
Sent him the screenshot. He hasn't replied yet. I'll wait 🥚

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

But genuinely though, the insights were actually really insightful 👀

It picked up on real patterns in how I work — where I get stuck, what kinds of sessions I push through vs abandon, the shape of a productive day vs a scattered one.

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Ran /insights in Claude Code and got absolutely called out for chatting with my pet snail persona instead of writing code 🐌

"arguably the highest satisfaction-to-code-written ratio in the dataset" — rude. accurate. framing it.

10/10 would be roasted again 🐌✨

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

This has been months in the making and I'm so happy it's finally out there ✨ Our team just shipped a full visual refresh of the @buffer web app.
It was such a fun project to be a part of 🥳 — it looks simple on the surface but had so many interesting little problems underneath.

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Hatched my Claude Code /buddy and got a common snail. Brought back feels I haven't felt since catching a Metapod in Viridian Forest. But I love him 🐌
Feel free to share yours!

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

...so naturally I showed my brother and asked what his time was. He does Expert in the same time. I just... closed the app 🤦 Humbled. Immediately and completely humbled.

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

On days when I need a little mood boost, I open my Sudoku stats and just sit with them for a moment. Is it a small and slightly silly thing to feel good about? Yes. But do I feel like a champion? Also, yes 😅🏆 Anyone else play? Drop your best times!

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Claude Code's terminal icon is giving me side-eye energy today 🫠 can't imagine why. 3 days of pixel-perfect CSS debates will do that 🫣

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

🖥️ Chrome's split view tabs have completely changed my CSS polish workflow 👀 🎨 Figma on one side, browser on the other — no more window juggling to compare layouts. No idea how long this has been a thing but it's not leaving my workflow now 🙌

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Not sure when Chrome DevTools added this but calc() values now show their actual resolved output on hover 🔍 No more mental math trying to figure out what calc(100% - 2px) actually computes to. How did I only just discover this?! Game changer for debugging CSS layouts 😍

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

I'm loving that Calude is wearing a party hat ready, for its birthday this weekend 😅 🥳

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Here's an old article from 2013 about Google Creative Sandbox if you want to check it out too 📖✨
https://t.co/AFCPJEipu3

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Sharing this beautiful site I found ✨ 🔗 https://t.co/MxnfycgTWn
I love its popup-style animations 📖 Reminds me of Google's Creative Sandbox from 2013, one of the first sites that got me into web dev 🦋

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Found a fun Google Labs experiment 🧪✨ GenType lets you describe any vibe and AI generates a custom typeface. I went with 🍞 toast, 🐶 blue heelers & Australian wildlife 🌿
Silly & super fun to play with!

Give it a go and share your typeface 🏄‍♀️
🔗 https://t.co/aPiQUAXIo7

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

🏆 Been pairing it with Claude Code, and it's been a game-changer for giving more detailed prompts about code changes without typing essays. Talking through what I want to build is so much faster than writing it out 🙌

[Daisy Smith 🍊 @daisysmells]

Tool I recently adopted: Wispr Flow 🎙️✨

I'm usually terrible at building new tool habits but their onboarding nailed it — three quick tasks and I was actually using it immediately

👇 Game changer to pair it with – Claude Code