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Aaron Douglas

@astralbodies.me

Head of Desktop & Mobile Engineering Figma. Ex Shopify, Automattic. Author for kodeco, πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ, ADHD, πŸ§™, remote work, runner. Occasional DJ.

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Software Engineer - Desktop San Francisco, CA β€’ New York, NY β€’ United States

I'm hiring an experienced Electron.js software engineer to come join the @figma.com Desktop app team. It's a niche role for a product that spans all of Figma's org and is the preferred experience for our designer community.

job-boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/5...

20.05.2025 12:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you know the difference between β€œ$2 trillion” and β€œ$150 billion”? About $2 trillion.

14.04.2025 00:18 πŸ‘ 11830 πŸ” 2301 πŸ’¬ 304 πŸ“Œ 67
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The Auditorium of Grief Each grief has a voice. Sometimes they speak at once. Sometimes they’re quiet, just sitting there with you. And for a while, you just let them.

I've been getting back in the groove of writing more regularly lately. Grief has been on my mind a lot, especially with the losses of my dad, grandfather, and aunt in the past five years. I see it as a big room, like an auditorium. aaron.blog/the-auditori...

14.04.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Always on the cusp of something That gap between the magic I know I can reach and how often it escapes me β€” that’s the hardest part of living in my brain.

That gap between the magic I know I can reach and how often it escapes me β€” that’s the hardest part of living in my brain.

aaron.blog/always-on-th...

13.04.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Dangling Pointer Sh*t my brain says and forgets about

I've migrated aaron.blog over to ghost.org. I have to say, I'm really impressed. Conversion from WordPress was easy enough, and I got concierge help from the staff when I ran into an issue. I'm digging the concept of having a newsletter as well!

12.04.2025 21:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œ[Thursday] at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said.”

10.01.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The worst thing (well one of the things) with ADHD is when I have a prescient great idea and then it's gone by the time I go to write it down.

10.01.2025 01:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I volunteer for a local animal shelter’s second property which is a farm with horses and goats. Today I got to put them all in for the night alone on a quiet Christmas evening! πŸ’“πŸ΄

26.12.2024 00:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was surprised that someone already took astralbodies on the platform - but finding out I can do a custom domain to get astralbodies.me made me happy!

25.12.2024 16:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0