Alan B Smith

@alanbsmith.bsky.social

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👨‍💻 Principal Design System Engineer 🥃 Carb & cocktail fan account 🏔️ Boulder, CO 🅰️ Arsenal FC ⚽️ Il calcio é della gente

A peach pie with a golden brown lattice top resting on a wire rack.
Caramelized plantains in a bowl with two scoops of vanilla ice cream
A modified Paloma served up in a rocks glass with a lime wheel and thin grapefruit peel garnish.
My 40lb goldendoodle curled tightly into a ball so she can fit on my lap.
A white ramekin with two small scoops: lemon sorbet (left) and lemon gelato (right) and three mint leaves for garnish.
Two gimlets filled nearly to the brim of their chilled coupe glasses, garnished with a lime wheel wedge.
My golden doodle sitting on my lap in a hammock looking directly into the camera with her tongue out. Her expression makes you think she’s a muppet that’s come to life.
Two tacos in a to-go container. One is fried grouper and the other is fried shrimp.
White sand beach and perfectly clear ocean waves
A white Negroni in a faceted rocks glass with a large ice cube and orange slice garnish.
Rows of green triangular pasta rest on a wood cutting board.
Alan holds a single raviolo in the foreground. In the background, a half sheet of 35 fresh ravioli wait to be thrown into the pot to boil.
Six lemon cream tartlets sitting on a mat ready to chill for the night.
A dark brown espresso martini in a chilled Nick & Nora glass. It has a nice layer of creamy foam on top and is garnished with three coffee beans in the center.
A small plate of oatmeal raisin cookies with the rest of the batch resting on a mat.
Rosie, our goldendoodle, sitting up on the couch looking like a muppet.
A homemade apple pie that’s almost ready to go in the oven. The pie is topped with some broad lattice strips.
A light brown hazy cocktail in a chilled rocks glass with an orange peel garnish. The glass is sitting on an orange flannel shirt.
Two gifts from the team: A black stainless steel tumbler that says “Best Coach Ever” and a pink soccer ball that all the players signed.
Two Gotham on-field medics attending to an injured player. Their med kit bags have giant Tylenol brand logos on the side, strategically placed directly toward the camera.
An Old Fashioned cocktail in a rocks glass with a large clear ice cube and thin orange slice. The ice has a geometric pattern stamped on top.
Alan places a large clear ice cube in a rocks glass and gives it a spin. He then pours some whiskey in the glass and the ice disappears under the liquid — an optical illusion.
A Neapolitan style Margherita pizza
A screenshot from Babbel. “You’re on a 100-day streak.”
2oz of rye whiskey poured slowly over a clear, large 2 inch block of ice in a rocks glass
Pink dahlias from our garden
A Boulevardier in a faceted rocks glass. The small floof in the background is the wisp of a doodle tail. 🐕
A chilled Nick & Nora glass with a dark cocktail resting at the bottom. A maraschino cherry as the garnish.
A Negroni and two small books. - Spritz by Talia Baiocchi & Leslie Pariseau - Negroni by Matt Hranek
A golden brown apple pie cooling on a wire rack. The top crust is an overlapping lattice.
A Gibraltar glass with a single scoop of lemon gelato and another with espresso.
A single scoop of bright red strawberry sorbet in a waffle cone.
A rocks glass with red frozen sangria garnished with an orange slice and berries.
An assortment of blue and white frosted donuts that spell out “CANVAS,” and a giant donut cake with the design system logo “C” on it.
Pistachio gelato in a small homemade waffle cone.
Four golden brown ice cream cones resting on a plate.
A large plate full of bundles of fresh golden fettuccine waiting to go in the pot.
Tall glass with a mojito
A Glencairn glass with a bit of American whiskey
Two small bowls, each with a single scoop. The left is a creamy pink gelato, and the right is a bright red sorbet.
A small scoop of gelato in a Gibraltar glass
Baby rabbit balled up in the back of a clear plastic dough tub.
A goldendoodle sitting up asking for pets politely with her eyes.
A gin and tonic in a short-stem balloon glass with lots of ice, an orange slice, cucumber slices, and fresh sage and mint.
Three quart-sized containers of ice cream: vanilla bean, bourbon butter pecan, and strawberry sorbet.
Two small 4oz bowls. One has a bright red scoop of strawberry sorbet and the other has a pale green scoop of matcha ice cream.
A small scoop of cookies and cream ice cream in a Gibraltar glass.
An affogato with chocolate ice cream in a faceted espresso glass
An ice cream machine churning vanilla bean ice cream
Two ice cream books: “The Perfect Scoop” by David Lebovitz and “Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream” by Dana Cree
Rolls of fresh pasta waiting to go in the pot.
A Negroni with slushie ice in a faceted rocks glass with a Cara Cara orange slice
Two containers of coffee beans. The caffeinated beans are labeled “high octane” and the decaf beans are labeled “boring.”
A large goldendoodle resting her head on my lap and just barely staying awake.
A valentines card with Ryan Gosling that reads “hey designer, how might we spend more time together?”
A green t-shirt with 100 purple flowers in offset rows of 10.
Pen plotter draws five purple flowers on a white shirt.
A Negroni in a rocks glass with a large clear ice cube and thin orange slice.
Lagavulin 16 in a rocks glass with a large clear ice cube, and a soda water with lemon slices.