Rob Hameetman

@robhameetman.com

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A 2-week old LinkedIn post by Zackary Jackson: "Burning unlimited tokens to decompile a 10mb minified package back to its original source. 135k LOC - only 10k lines left." The post has 12 reactions and no comments.
A diagram titled "How Design Tokens Guide Perception" from blog.robhametman.com. It is structured as a vertical flow with three layers labeled “observation,” “sensation,” and “realization.” At the bottom is a red circle labeled “Stimuli” (#B82033FF), representing raw visual data. Arrows point upward to the middle layer labeled “Signals” ($red-500), and from there to two composite tokens: “Qualia” ($primary-color) and “Noemata” ($button-color). Arrows also lead to “Strata” ($app-background-color) at the top. Labels on the sides define the roles of each token: Stimuli: Raw color data. Signals: Simple tokens transmitting discrete design information. Qualia: Composite tokens representing subjective consciousness. Noemata: Component tokens as repeatable attributes of an experience. Strata: Theme tokens forming the background for user experiences. Each token connects vertically or diagonally, suggesting a perceptual hierarchy from observation to realization.
A stadium photo of a young man in sunglasses and an “Astros” T-shirt leaning in toward a blonde woman in a white tank top with one hand on her shoulder and the other gesturing excitedly, while an older man beside them looks disinterested. White meme text over the image reads: “TRUST ME, I’M AN EXPERT IN TDD.”
Ross from Friends shouting “PIVOT!” as he and Chandler maneuver a couch up the stairs.
A lion hiding in a bush at dawn, only the yellow glare from one of its eyes is visible. The word “LION!” appears in red sans-serif type with a drawn red arrow pointing to the eye glare. Photo taken at the Governors Mugie conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya.
A close-up picture of my wedding ring on my hand.
A golden calico cat holding onto a mobile phone camera for a selfie. The camera is in a close-up angle. The cat has a personified and shocked expression. Two meters behind it stands a male African lion. In the early morning of the grassland, the soft and warm side light of the sunrise, high dynamic range, 4K realistic film texture.
Simulation of behavior of fish circling to confuse their prey, the animation begins by instantiating fish around an invisible obstacle which they then swim around.
A potato with my face generated using a character ref in Midjourney
A vintage photograph of an old computer room with retro tech on a long sandy beach, 80s style graphics on the screen and a lot of wires in dark colors. In front there is retro poster of intergalactic war game with space ship battle. On one wall we can see some space age pictures of people wearing futuristic space suits. set in front of a long beach with crystal-clear water and calming waves. Kodak film photography, analog film grain effect, nostalgic mood, 90's vibe, vintage, lovecraftian hybrid of Frank Frazetta and John Albert Bauer style, captured with a Sony Alpha A7R IV, lens canon EF24-70mm f/2.8 LVSM II, 8K
A useQueryParam() hook I wrote that works like useState(), making stateful routing easier to manage.
At my request, ChatGPT makes a dirty joke about design systems. The joke mentions "tight grids" so I reply asking, "how tight are those grids baby?" ChatGPT seems into it.
Rob and Oona veg out on the couch after a hard day of work
Classic tweet: "It's a good thing we named most of the dinosaurs like a hundred years ago when all we were into was mythology and speaking Latin, if they just learned about dinosaurs now and had to name 100s there'd be a Heckin Chonkosaurus and a Northern Thicc Scaleyboy"
How To Write A Code Mockup, by Rob Hameetman UI Engineering Excellence, A HameetmanGrüppen Publication What if we delivered Design System components the same way Designers create the very UI we're building?
🫸 Using AI to write boilerplate code 👉 Using AI with scaffolding