Amy Lam

design engineer ✨ | design systems | soft eng 👩🏻‍💻👩‍🎨📝 she/her

[Amy Lam @amyrlam]

I'm finding @impeccable_ai + @mobbin MCP to be a vibing gamechanger!

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

High-agency is contagious. You spend time around someone who just does things and suddenly your own list of "impossible" tasks starts looking suspiciously possible.

[kaegan @kaeganmc]

Hunter Biden summer aka making deeply regretful decisions, suffering immensely, and setting myself up for an epic redemption arc

[Spencer Hillman @spencerforhire]

Hunter Biden having a run that we haven’t seen the likes of since peak menswear guy.

[Amy Lam @amyrlam]

@QuinnyPig The good old days

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

I missed StackOverflow, so I edited my system prompt to make Claude insult me, tell me someone had already asked that question before, and refuse to respond further in the conversation since it was “off topic.”

[Amy Lam @amyrlam]

@gregisenberg Need Timehop for bookmarked tweets

[Amy Lam @amyrlam]

Need a list of all of Colman Domingo's fits in The Four Seasons (for myself)

[Evil Rabbit @evilrabbit_]

One of the most important things I’ve learned over the years is that great work is never built alone. Be kind, respect your team, share credit, name the people who helped, and never leave anyone behind.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

[Greg Mushen @gregmushen]

Been limiting my showers to 1 minute to save more water for the data centers.

[Lydia Hallie ✨ @lydiahallie]

💯 this is why I really like Learning mode in Claude Code

I personally use this for all my side projects and it keeps me so much sharper, great if you want to use Claude Code but still stay hands-on!

/config → Output style → Learning

[Susan Zhang @suchenzang]

there is no better time in tech than now to be a jack of all trades, master of a few.

just make sure to keep adding to the few year over year, such that the cumulative breadth of expertise you collect becomes an increasingly rare combo. remember, if you're top 10% in 3 different areas, that already makes you top 0.1%. keep switching it up until you get to "your best", and then switch it up again (great for a particular flavor of people who don't enjoy resting on laurels, maybe not so great for others).

question all institutional value and pedigrees, all traditional career paths or corporate ladders: the college industrial complex is getting shaken up, alongside a disappearing managerial class, so if you're pursuing either make sure you are fully internally aligned with why. social/political capital in a particular institution can feel incredible, but if you're spending all your energy on complex political people games, you're not a technologist anymore, you're an unelected politician. if you're ok with that, then all's well.

critical thinking is more important than ever: take nothing at face-value, question everything and everyone. the equivalent of ai slop can be found in humans operating under misaligned incentives and interests. the sooner you're clued into disambiguating the talkers/larpers from the doers, the better off you'll be figuring out where and who to invest your time in.

the anxiety of job displacement is very real, since a surprising amount of white collar work/prestige is built on a performative house of cards, significantly lacking in correlation with technical breadth, depth, and skill. as long as you keep learning, keep building, keep producing receipts, you will be fine.

if all that sounds ok to you, welcome to the world of technology! it's truly one of the few places you can experience child-like wonder every few years, and be constantly humbled & excited by new adventures, as scary as they may seem at first.

don't give up, drink your water, get your sunlight, and take breaks as needed. tech careers are notoriously nonlinear, so you might as well embrace it and enjoy the ride!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There is nothing more powerful than well-informed optimism. It has to be well-informed though. The "everything will be fine" type of optimism may also be somewhat useful, but it's not as useful as the "Hmm, what if we tried x?" kind.

[Amy Lam @amyrlam]

Anyone on Utah https://t.co/yiDhGzZT4O or other options not tied to a job?

We are both contractors now (newly me, for at least 3mo). My COBRA seems overpriced, but other options are confusing

[Amy Lam @amyrlam]

Long-time @CleanShot user here. Simply an amazing piece of software. It should be out of the box on Macs!

[Robert Gehrke @RobertGehrke]

Big news about the news: Starting TOMORROW you’ll be able to access the @sltrib free of charge. It will be an invaluable resource for ALL of the community, thanks to the generous donors who made it possible.

https://t.co/nb371EyvZ4

[Amy Lam @amyrlam]

@VicVijayakumar 2wk = 1mo in LinkedIn time

[Complex Style @ComplexStyle]

Olympian Eileen Gu’s #MetGala dress features 15,000 glass bubbles, took 2,550 hours to make, and blows actual bubbles. Designed by Iris van Herpen. Wow.