You Zhang

Design Engineer @microsoft | INTJ

[You Zhang @atom63_]

@mumblinglewis @fafamotion_ @soywig 离职了才敢讲真话是吧hhh

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

when we can do anything,
do we still know what we want?

the full talk from @aiDotEngineer shanghai. every slide handmade in keynote, subs in 中文 and english

[You Zhang @atom63_]

@fafa818969 越简单的需求反而越难

[motionpunk @motionpunk1]

Sad seeing people doing tutorials using MCP to create things I ve done years ago with native c4d tools within minutes.
Everyone is so eager to expose themselves, even if they are in no position to share anything meaningful or have any actual work to back it up.

[You Zhang @atom63_]

@raunofreiberg https://t.co/4vEVGUghJi

[Anthony Fu 🦋 @antfu.me @antfu7]

Hey Japanese learners! I built a font that renders Furigana or Romaji above Kanji, with ligatures to support words. You can apply it anywhere to get furigana notations for free.

Give it a try, and I hope it will be helpful :)
https://t.co/Fg6Srg9ila

[You Zhang @atom63_]

Much needed for the “second brain” of the AI era

[Vincent Wu @VincentWu11]

We made a thing today 👉 https://t.co/XoIzdTfhOL

I've spent 15 years in media—making stories go viral @HuffPost @YahooNews , and turning @newsbreakApp into America's most popular news app. I've worked through generations of algorithms to help content find people.

Things changed. Thanks to AI, today finding something new has never been easier. The hardest thing right now, ironically, is to find something you've already found. What?!

@OpenAI @claudeai know almost everything—except what you saw on X or YouTube last week. Where the hell did it go?

@mem0ai @supermemory call it a “memory layer.” It's a chat log—full of things I asked a bot to do, not the things I found worth keeping.

We believe the missing piece is everything that happened BEFORE THE PROMPT. What you read, watched, and chose to keep.

Later, just ask ChatGPT/Claude or whatever you use: "What was that thing about...?" Get back the exact sentence. The exact moment in the video. With the source.

Try Ancher 👉 https://t.co/XoIzdTfhOL

[You Zhang @atom63_]

@ianneo_ai @Jackywine 做了一套design system来服务不同的网站形式
作品集：https://t.co/4vEVGUghJi
OS：https://t.co/HqTyOWsuvT
系统文档：https://t.co/67QVOFg6jf

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

How to Ask for Help

If you're a junior designer, I want to share a few things that will help you ask for help more effectively, be it wanting a portfolio review, introductions, advice, or anything really.

1. Be direct.
Most of the people you want help from are busy people. It is *greatly* preferred when you are upfront and direct about what you want. There are only so many hours in the day, and I'd rather know exactly what you want and how I can help.

2. Be specific
There are very few people in the world who ever want to 'catch up' or 'get their brain picked' when you don't know someone and it's ambiguous what they want.

If you want feedback on your portfolio, ask for that. If you want ideas on how to reposition yourself, ask for that.

If you aren't specific, you'll either get no response, or get generic response. My general feedback on every portfolio will always be: show your work upfront; remove half the words then remove more again, and spend 10x the time refining the work shown vs the design of the portfolio itself.

3. Be concise
Everyone is busy, so be respectful of their time and be as concise as possible with your ask.

4. Follow up
If you don't hear back from someone, the most likely answer is they either missed your message or forgot. Platforms like X have, somehow still, terrible DM's that always seem to be buggy, so just follow up respectfully. I don't find it annoying; rather I appreciate the persistence and reminder.

5. Follow through
If someone takes the time to help you, and gives you advice or suggestions, you should follow through on them. I love hearing about how things went or the updates someone made, but I'd guess less than 3% of the time I hear back from someone. Want to know an easy way to start to build a relationship? Follow through. Those who follow up I am more likely to want to continue helping and building into.

So what does this look like in practice?

Instead of "Here's my portfolio, let me know if you have thoughts!" say "I'm updating my portfolio as I look for a full time role at a startup. Would you mind letting me know 1) if this would pass your first 5 second screen, and 2) do you think the work examples I have selected seem credible to an early stage founder?"

Instead of "I'd love to meet if you're ever down", say "I have a few first round interviews coming up in a few weeks. Would you be open to doing a 30m practice portfolio presentation with me? I'll show up at any time that works for you this week or next."

I have generally found our industry is full of people who want to help others, so I hope this is helps you better ask for help!

[You Zhang @atom63_]

Website: https://t.co/4vEVGUghJi
OS63: https://t.co/HqTyOWsuvT
Documentation: https://t.co/eQTs0kT4QW

[You Zhang @atom63_]

A personal website is usually a one-off project.

But I wanted to see what would happen if a design engineer treated it as a system instead—shared foundations, reusable components, adaptive themes, and multiple surfaces.

This is a walkthrough of the thinking behind mine, not just the final output.

[You Zhang @atom63_]

Also used this video to test a new AI video production workflow:

Recording: Screen Studio
Voiceover Clone: HeyGen API
Editing + captions: Codex and CapCut

[You Zhang @atom63_]

A personal website is usually a one-off project.

But I wanted to see what would happen if a design engineer treated it as a system instead—shared foundations, reusable components, adaptive themes, and multiple surfaces.

This is a walkthrough of the thinking behind mine, not just the final output.

[You Zhang @atom63_]

A personal website is usually a one-off project.

But I wanted to see what would happen if a design engineer treated it as a system instead—shared foundations, reusable components, adaptive themes, and multiple surfaces.

This is a walkthrough of the thinking behind mine, not just the final output.

[You Zhang @atom63_]

@qianjiang___ 终于要发了吗

[You Zhang @atom63_]

@zheminwork @plntyapp 想你了zhemin老师🫡

[You Zhang @atom63_]

@fafa818969 这瓜已经吃到fafa这边了嘛hhh

[Artur Bień @artur_bien]

Most Web image viewers ignore the trackpad.

Mine doesn’t:

[You Zhang @atom63_]

Coming from a motion/CG background, I always find it disturbing seeing people distill other people's work into skills for AIGC visuals without even minimal respect or credit to the original artist.

Idk man, it seems so popular nowadays and nobody sees anything wrong with it.

[You Zhang @atom63_]

@pengzheng_ @bot 极致的J人

[Peng Zheng @pengzheng_]

my personal website updates itself every time i go somewhere.

i text my Grok Bot a photo of the place. it turns it into a 3D clay diorama, makes day + night versions, and pushes it live to my homepage in 2 minutes.

no CMS. no admin panel. just texting a @bot from a ramen shop. 🍜

https://t.co/nCNA5RQpFS

[You Zhang @atom63_]

@crackthrough C4D stuff XD

[You Zhang @atom63_]

something never shipped back in 2023..