Brandon Dail

@brandondail.com

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Staff Engineer at Discord working on Design Systems, Accessibility, Other Stuff™️ Collage & generative plotter artist 👋

an image of a beach generated with the low-quality misua-diffusion-one model, which is trained exclusively on public domain/copyright free images
A top-down shot of a 9x12 CMYK plotter print. The print features abstract blue, red, green, and pink colors with a sharp cut-off about 60% down, where there's no blue or green. The top half looks kind of like cactuses that are flowering, and the bottom half kind of looks like lemonade.
Screenshot of github.com/pulls/authored that says I have 21 million open pull requests and 147 million closed ones. You can see a couple PRs that are clearly not the users'
A side-by-side video of a before and after screen capture of the Discord desktop application starting up. The After capture finishes roughly a second before the Before one.
Two screenshots from Chrome DevTools side-by-side. On the left it says "Before" and shows that rendering took 1518 milliseconds. On the right it says "After" and shows that rendering took 610 milliseconds.
A newborn baby hand resting on top of a man’s middle finger, as if they were holding hands
yaml code that reads: # text-secondary.yaml type: text constraints: scale: neutral contrast: 6 with: background-surface-highest
Life magazine cover with a photo of Jesus Christ that says JESUS, who do you say that I am?”
screenshot of x.com showing the @aweary account; the page says "This account doesn't exist"
screenshot of ps aux | grep rg showing a ripgrep/big/rg command running with a tailwind.config file splat
screenshot of macOS' Activity Monitor showing a list of rg processes. At the bottom a CPU load graph shows near full utilization and the system CPU usage is reported at 94.44% utilization
An Apple Music interface showing a 'Top Songs' list with 1,993 total songs. The top 5 most played songs are all by Adrianne Lenker, each accompanied by the same profile photo of someone wearing a white cowboy hat. The songs, in order of plays, are: 1. 'Fool' (50 plays), 2. 'Sadness As a...' (47 plays), 3. 'No Machine' (42 plays), 4. 'Free Treasure' (29 plays), and 5. 'Vampire Empire' (25 plays). The interface has a dark green background, and there's a share button icon at the bottom of the screen
screenshot of Discord's connection list showing my bluesky account linked
a large directed graph showing a web of dependencies between color tokens like background-base-low, text-primary, and many more.
screenshot of Apple Fitness showing 17422 steps, 7.71 miles, 2 flights climbed
A child's drawing of an orange monster with spiky features and legs drawn in purple ink sits next to a handmade plush toy that is based on the drawing. The plush toy is orange with white eyes, a black mouth with felt teeth, and navy blue legs or tentacles at the bottom. Both items are photographed on a wooden surface with visible grain patterns.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Screenshot of the Discord segmented control component
Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur special illustration cards
a mixed media collage; a woman in a red sweater sitting in tall, brown grass at the edge of an oceanside cliff, the sky