Web Monkey, Martial Artist, Procrastinator Extraordinaire. Staff Developer @shopify. Ex-BBC @programmes. Inevitably https://xitter.cf/t.co/9LwV8sIaMH
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Joined February 2009
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Ben Scott retweeted
A lot of exceptionally talented folks from the Polaris team are no longer at Shopify today. These people have levelled up crafters, orgs and platforms through our Design System.
:legends: @JFann @RaquelDesigns @timlayton Natasha Lloyd, JJ Galipeau, Gui Santos
Ben Scott retweeted
Today was my last day at Shopify after four years working on Polaris — going to take a moment and then jump into exploring what's next. So many incredibly thoughtful, talented folks were impacted today, if you're looking or need to fill an open role we've started a resource here
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Ben Scott retweeted
As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career.
How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Ben Scott retweeted
I once had to quit my job as investigator of illegal parties because I had actually been to all the illegal parties
Ben Scott retweeted
a pumpkin man sits inside a pumpkin house.
is the house made of flesh? or is he made of house?
he screams, for he does not know
Ben Scott retweeted
New rule: every time someone tweets "it's coming home", one artifact from the British Museum shall be return to the place it was stolen.
Ben Scott retweeted
I learned this lesson the hard way, as a CEO.
At best, you should only assume good intent down a power hierarchy (i.e., assume the best of your employees, or those of a less privileged class), but not up (e.g., bosses, those in social or political power)
Ben Scott retweeted
To be able to “assume good intent” is an extraordinarily privileged thing to be able to do.
If you’re never subjected to microaggressions, for example, that’s easy to do.
If you often are, assuming good intent could amount to gaslighting yourself.
It’s naive, bad advice.
Ben Scott retweeted
I was experimenting with a tool that works like Storybook but runs on Snowpack.
Pitching it to the @hashnode @vercel hackathon now.
aditya.hashnode.dev/storycru…
Ben Scott retweeted
This is a thread about how utterly in love with Penelope Scott's song Rät I am. It's a breakup song to Silicon Valley and Elon Musk in particular. It is 🔥🔥🔥 on the promise, failure, and disappointment of technology. Some of my favorite lyrics: youtu.be/LpxT9TLGoLI
