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Dylan Smith
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Staff Design Engineer, GitHub Copilot
Runner, South London

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This little tooltip copy might be my favourite thing I’ve done in almost four years at GitHub.
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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No need to remember the syntax!
October 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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🥲
Me: is this good Copilot: This CSS snippet is mostly good, but
June 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Went to Stockholm, ran a marathon
Me running down the track at Stockholm Olympic Stadium. I’m wearing a black hat, sunglasses, black shorts, and a big smile. There’s a grandstand on the left of the background and a brick tower with a Swedish flag in the top-middle. Bunch of runners slower than me pictured to the right. 😏 Me holding a medal and giving a thumbs up in front of screen with my official finish time on it: 03:22:19
June 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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You can disable that
"Messages and media" tab of Slack’s preferences panel showing an unchecked "Convert my typed emoticons to emoji" option
May 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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The UK actually does this. (I’ve dropped my personalised amounts column here.) It’s readily available in every taxpayer’s online account.
Breakdown of how the UK government spent my income tax, cropping to only show the column for “Description.” Categories in order: Welfare (21.6%) Health (20.2%) State Pensions (11.4%) National Debt Interest (11.1%) Education (10.2%) Defence (5.2%) Public Order and Safety (4.4%) Transport (4.2%) Business and Industry (4.2%) Government Administration (2.1%) Housing and Utilities, like street lighting (1.8%) Environment (1.4%) Culture, like sports, libraries, museums (1.2%) Overseas Aid (0.7%) Outstanding payments to the EU (0.6%)
March 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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I never thought it would happen to me

(shipping a sparkly icon to indicate AI features)
A menu in a user interface that shows a sparkly pencil icon beside the word “Revise”
February 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Dog on bus
Corgi on the bus from perspective of his owner (me) standing above him Corgi on the bus through a security camera monitor
February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Honestly pretty satisfied with my attempt at naming all the TfL stations from memory but I know I’m about to be annoyed by a bunch of the ones I missed.

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An visualisation of London with all the lines and stations overlaid on it. I guessed 42.5% of the names so those station’s dots are coloured in.
November 30, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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🤝
A customer service email from IKEA which begins, “Dear Dr. Smith.”
November 28, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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I am begging Sweet Baby Ray to update his label. Twitter hasn’t used this “t” logo for 12 years.
The neck of a Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce bottle with the Twitter logo as a stylised lowercase t.
November 27, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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My dog would like to join your dog’s Dogs With Candy Toys club.
A corgi holding a plush dog toy designed to look like a bag of Marks & Spencer’s Percy Pigs sweets.
November 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Overcast premium has listening stats now. 👂
Spittin Chiclets 77:28:00 AXE TO GRIND PODCAST 56:57:31 The Nine Club With Chris Roberts 31:05:32 HardLore: Stories from Tour 28:53:34 ShopTalk 27:32:33 The First Ever Podcast 27:04:55 Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend 18:01:31 Turned Out A Punk 14:36:40 Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats 10:41:14 Hackers Incorporated 7:59:38 Dive Club 6:54:09 Doctors of Running Podcast 6:00:59 Complementary 5:20:55
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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This makes me feel way less silly about buying the IKEA wrapping paper storage thing.
It’s like a fabric, zippered box with pockets for cards in the lid. The main compartment has a large area to strap in rolls of wrapping paper and a smaller section for storing bows and ribbon.
November 19, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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Skeeter Valentine from the animated series Doug pointing toward himself with his thumb. The overlaid caption reads “I’m Skeeter.”
November 18, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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For your consideration:
A 400 gram jar of Lotus Biscoff spread
July 11, 2023 at 9:57 AM