Manny Carrera

I wrote a thing! linkedin.com/posts/manuelca…

@SanderBlue Gordito

It’s been over 6 weeks since I’ve had steak because it’s so expensive these days. However, bone-in ribeyes were on super sale today so I went big. I now weigh 1.6 lbs more than 20 minutes ago.

@SanderBlue The ski trip to Japan ?!

Here's your chance. Nothin' to do except to do it, you got it, you do it, you got it, you do it.

What does the use of AI look like for a design system? How are people leveraging AI? I don't want a chat bot, that seems impersonal, but are you using to create a better experience for consumers somehow? Curious what folks are doing!

@marvelousmudd Ah yep! I think the problem we’re having is storybook is too feature rich and hard to maintain. I’ve heard of Ladle and it looks great!

@mcarrera4 Storybook. From what I can tell, it's still the best. Uber released Ladle a while back, and while it still looks like it's being actively developed, it's nowhere near as feature-rich as Storybook. github.com/tajo/ladle

Those in the design system space building components, what tool do you use for your development environment. We’re currently on Storybook but seeing what else is out there!

@SanderBlue Get paid FOR BICEPS

Also as a first time dad, I've realized the only realistic time I have to do this is either before dawn (pshh), after everyones in bed (pshh), or during work hours. So ya, lunch time is my workout time from now on.

So I'm trying to get back into working out on a routine. The first thing I noticed is that my strength is still there. The second thing I noticed is that my endurance is horrendous. I can still bench the same weight no problem, but a third of the reps.

@jwage If you need buttons let me know

Working on this new component when viewing a trade so that you can quickly see the difference between the price from the trade signal compared to the current price.

@willklein_ dev10X

What should my title be? I've really struggled with this so why don't I ask others. I started a company to focus on improving the developer experience for everyone. I am consulting on development, tools, and giving talks & workshops. What do you call me?

@SanderBlue @jwage @ccovey14 @rishinaama We’re friends? 😭😭❤️

This makes me miss my friends @jwage @ccovey14 @mcarrera4 @rishinaama. Let's throw things from high places again soon... and drink garage beers 🍻

@SanderBlue @jwage Lmao

@jwage Sadly I think it’s true. This has happened quite a bit since @mcarrera4 had his wreck. The “warranty fix” has always just been a bandaid 😆

@jwage I went on my first bike ride today in a long time… and then my bike broke. Had to walk all the way home. Womp womp 🤣🙃

@_alanbsmith I would follow this pizza blog

@SanderBlue Did you order fresh hot tostinos?

Gotta say it again. Amazon is incredible. I just ordered something at 4:30pm and somehow it'll get here this evening before I go to bed.

@MetalHaze @docusaurus This is great insight! Appreciate the feedback!

@mcarrera4 @docusaurus But there is no “right way”. What works for one person may not work for somebody else so you really to take a look at the business how it operates and what ppl expect. Your coworkers are your users so you might want to send out a survey and do internal user research asking this

This is a long shot, curious if anyone has switched to using @docusaurus after developing/documenting in Storybook. Specifically when managing a mono repo or component library!

@donniedamato @docusaurus Yeah good point! Thanks for the input!!

@mcarrera4 @docusaurus Sure, but they also have the resources to put into custom docs sites. It's possible to customize Storybook to make finding info + code better too but then you're customizing again. For us, we want as much as we can in one place, not strewn across different platforms.

@donniedamato @docusaurus Fair point. It should feel integrated. I look at Material or Atlassian as examples and they have dev specific + design docs that feel congruent. The experience as well of finding the info + code blocks feels seamless.

@mcarrera4 @docusaurus How should a docs site feel?

@donniedamato @docusaurus Good point! Yeah SB and MDX have worked out for the most part except SB doesn't feel like a doc site!

@mcarrera4 @docusaurus We're winding it back. We've been using docusaurus with an attempt that the design org would also contribute but the config was not clear. If you lean into Storybook and MDX, I find it to be more approachable. But best case is file based routing Markdown.

@MetalHaze @docusaurus Gotcha! Do you find it hard to manage documentation in two different spots? I guess part of it is dev specific and the other part is a little more broad. Was curious about using docusaurus for a dev specific site without having two different repos.

@mcarrera4 @docusaurus Yah, so we don’t document guidance and best practices in SB. It doesn’t act great as an authoring platform. It’s only for technical docs and testing. We store the other documentation in Confluence and cross-reference. In your case it sounds like that would be Docusaurus.

@MetalHaze @docusaurus Hey Alex! We're running into an issue where documenting in SB isn't ideal. We also have an ecosystem where a lot of info gets lost. I think SB is great for developing in isolation, but we really need to combine code and docs better!

@mcarrera4 @docusaurus We use both in our company for different reasons. Depends what your goals are. Docusaurus doesn’t do many of the things SB offers. And while SB is great, it can be clunky and difficult to work with.

Hey @Ionicframework! I'm a design systems engineer at @Workday ! Any chance I can ask a few questions regarding your experience documenting with @docusaurus ?!