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Cole Bemis

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Building things for people who build things Design Engineer @notion.com Creator of feathericons.com Working on @uselumen.com

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Jul 28

Today is my first day at @notion.com!

I’m joining as a design engineer to explore AI workflows. Excited to share more soon

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Aug 1

Me every morning to Claude Code

a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him

ALT: a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him

media.tenor.com

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Jul 31

Learning the @notion.com codebase by shipping quick wins ⚡

Shipped today: You can now paste image files directly to set custom page icons. Before, you could only paste image *URLs*

What quick win should I tackle next? (screenshots pls)

Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Jul 28

What’s next: bsky.app/profile/cole...

Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Jul 28

Today is my first day at @notion.com!

I’m joining as a design engineer to explore AI workflows. Excited to share more soon

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Jul 28

Today is my first day at @notion.com!

I’m joining as a design engineer to explore AI workflows. Excited to share more soon

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Jul 25

So good 😍

Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Jul 14

Thanks Ash! Miss you ❤️

Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Jul 4

Love Phosphor ❤️

Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Jul 3

Personal update: After six incredible years at GitHub, July 1st was my last day 🥲

Thank you to everyone who made my time at GitHub special ❤️

Excited to share what’s next!

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · May 30

I gave a lightning talk about why state machines should be part of your design process

...and gave a demo of an experimental Figma plugin I built that allows you to use state machines to power your designs

Here's the recording:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRKZ...

Designing with state machines

YouTube video by GitHub

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Apr 21

Yess do it

Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Apr 21

Yeah, I think a property editor will be so nice to have

Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Apr 21

I solve that by creating a note per person (tagged with #person). Then I can mention them in notes using [[

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Apr 21

Issues and PRs welcome :) github.com/lumen-notes/...

GitHub - lumen-notes/lumen: A simple note-taking app for capturing and organizing your thoughts

A simple note-taking app for capturing and organizing your thoughts - lumen-notes/lumen

github.com

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Apr 21

Glad you like it! Let me know if you have any feedback 😊

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Apr 21

It doesn't get much better than this 🔥

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Apr 21

I had a good photographer 😉

Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Apr 21

Replaced my old Gatsby site with a single index.html file ✨

colebemis.com

Cole Bemis

Building things for people who build things. Staff Research Engineer at GitHub Next.

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Lumen @uselumen.com · Apr 17

🚀 We shipped a few updates last week:

1. The Tags page has new view and sort options.
2. The command menu now includes contextual note actions if viewing a note page.
3. Clicking "New note" while viewing a list filtered by tag will prefill your new note with that tag.

Thanks to Zakher Masri! ❤️

The command menu now includes contextual note actions if viewing a note page.

If you create a new note while viewing a list filtered by tag, that tag will be prefilled in your new note

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Apr 7

@schickling.dev is working on a local-first music app called Overtone that looks promising. Maybe he'll let you off the waitlist by 2026 😉

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GitHub @github.com · Apr 4

📣 This just in...

The *open source* and official GitHub MCP Server is here 🤩 github.blog/changelog/20...

github-mcp-server is now available in public preview · GitHub Changelog

github-mcp-server [Public Preview]

github.blog

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Mar 28

What am I working on? Wrong answers only...

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Mar 26

I made an app icon for Word Rumble to try out OpenAI's new image model, and I'm impressed with the results!

I tried the same prompt with DALL-E a couple of months ago, and the results weren't nearly this good

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Mar 25

Can confirm that @adrianmato.com is both a good hang and a good photographer ❤️

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Lumen @uselumen.com · Mar 24

New stickers just arrived 📦

Lumen stickers. From right to left:
- plain black and white
- holographic
- holographic yellow (special edition)

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · Mar 20

More state machine experiments inside of @figma.com ✨

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