matthewsimo

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Humanoid. He/him/his. Optimistic optimizer. Enemy of entropy. Let’s figure out solutions to anthropogenic climate collapse.

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You can find me on my website: https://t.co/iboVdl9fOz

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Too much reliance on Modals as a design pattern is an indication that the product doesn’t understand its key goals or isn’t structuring its workflows well, in my experience.

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Post the last pic of your pet on your phone

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I read an article (https://t.co/rzRNoEX5lF) that gave me a brain worm so bad I had to write to get rid of it..

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Most slept on Apple ecosystem feature: Shortcuts

I don't see enough talk about these, so I wrote about my favorites:

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@mux213 @reduzio @kevinwatters @AdamWatters If I must become a fish to learn, I will become a fish 🐟

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@reduzio @mux213 Once there is some story for AVP, I’m in 100%

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@chriswallace @rvig_art Happy birthday - these burgers reminded me that I still think of that one burger joint in old town McKinney we ate at a few times!

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‘DRAGON BALL’ creator Akira Toriyama has sadly passed away at the age of 68.

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Published an article talking about Figma Plugins, the architecture of my recently published Node Vars plugin, and the hand rolled template I made to help make creating Figma plugins trivial, check it out!

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So good

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Dune 2 is so good

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@JuanArreguin Oh, you want to replace all references on the canvas to your library var. That’s more challenging - I’d be up for collabing on something like that though, DM me if you want..

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@JuanArreguin - this isn’t the same thing but is related to something we chatted about in a previous thread a while back

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I just submitted Node Vars for publishing as a #Figma Community #Plugin! When they approve it - it'll be available for anyone that wants to use it. I'm very excited about it and hope someone finds it useful. If you have any questions or ideas about it - hit me up!

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@JuanArreguin Oh, more like a “migrate library collection to local collection”? Or to say another way, a way to point the values of the local collection to the library collection via a variable alias?

You thinking the library and local collections are 1:1 structurally & naming wise?

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@JuanArreguin For that sort of feature to work with their plugin architecture you’d need a server to store the variables data from the source so the target files could then use it. Hmm, interesting use case - I’ll think on how it’d actually need to work

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@JuanArreguin Yea, little foggy too, hah. I want to say it was around exporting Variables. For that, have you tried exploring publishing variables in a library?

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Just got word it was approved! It’s live, get it here: https://t.co/SY71Go1NHM

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I just submitted Node Vars for publishing as a #Figma Community #Plugin! When they approve it - it'll be available for anyone that wants to use it. I'm very excited about it and hope someone finds it useful. If you have any questions or ideas about it - hit me up!

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