Jesse Gardner

The NYS Design System team is hiring... and this is the team you'd be joining: One year ago, we were a brand new team with a tall order from the 2024 State of the State: build a unified design… |... The NYS Design System team is hiring... and this is the team you'd be joining: One year ago, we were a brand new team with a tall order from the 2024 State of the State: build a unified design system...

@eva.town We *are* hiring! More deets on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/plasti...

*employees

A photo of an auditorium with a slide that says 96% customer satisfaction and 86% increased trust in the IRS

A photo of an auditorium, with a slide that has a picture of the DOGE dog

IRS Direct File accomplished levels of satisfaction higher than Apple or Netflix… without firing tens of thousands of users. #cfasummit

Will you be at @codeforamerica.org Summit 2025? Let's meet up!

I'll be in D.C. May 28-30 and looking forward to networking with others in #civictech. Excited to talk about the #accessibility and #designsystem work our team is doing at New York State!

Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day - New York State Office of Information Technology Services

Nearly 1 in 4 New Yorkers live with a disability. Visible or invisible, lifelong or temporary — it’s something that will eventually affect everyone. Excited to be part of building a Central Accessibility Team at New York State. Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #gaad #accessibility #a11y

A dramatic sunrise with a church on the hillside shrouded in fog.

God grant me the serenity
To grieve what I cannot ignore,
The courage to fight off ICE agents
When the come for my neighbors,
And the wisdom to know that
Silence is complicity.

IT'S a Tech Podcast, Episode 3: Human-Centered Design YouTube video by NYS ITS

It's getting real! Learn a bit about the NYS Design System project with Director of User Research Jesse Gardner @plas.tc and DS Team Lead Eric Steinborn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfF...

Please don’t say that. I want it to end well…

Sunset on a rooftop in the Bowery

Sunset over lower manhattan

Katz’s deli

Portrait in a rainy Times Square

Lucky enough to spend time exploring NYC with this girl. Enjoying every moment! 💕

Doing what we can to carry on that good work at NYS. Stay strong! 💪

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Today: - Candle Making Hourly Rate Yesterday: - Figma Plugin Risk Review - Dancing Chicken Request - Pickle Factory Creation - Epic Space Battle Request

When your wife and kids sneak into your ChatGPT account.

The Data Rescue Tracker We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...

Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

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The Constitution is not a self-correcting document. It’s a legal framework with checks and balances that only works if enough people collectively demand it to.

White House orders government DEI employees to be placed on leave | CNN Politics Employees in any federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave “effective immediately,” according to a post from White House press secretar...

Employees in any (US federal) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave 'effective immediately.'"

Notice ACCESSIBILITY is in there too.

I feel sick.

www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...

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File analysis tool to detect non-inclusive language in your source code.

Kalita MINO Ceramic Dripper 185 - Sand Beige The Kalita MINO ceramic dripper blends Japanese tradition with modern brewing. Handcrafted using the Mino ware technique, its natural satin finish adds warmth and charm. Paired with Kalita 185 Wave fi...

My secret to an amazing cup at home:

- Kalita Wave pour over with paper filter (rinse before using)
- 30g coffee to 400g water
- Really good beans that you grind right with a burr grinder just before pouring over

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here lies Jesse Gardner
who vowed never to shilly-shally
but could not resist a good dilly-dally

Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)

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First day on the slopes. Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄

Having just gone through a big token naming effort, I can tell you it can be challenging. I’ve had a small peek into their recommendations, and can tell you it’s chock-full of good practical ideas.

Just started recently!

I was addicted!

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Today’s Special

taking out a loan to pave the driveway ☠️

Brad, you have no class.

A classroom of kids taking an exam

Spent the day proctoring exams for a Science Olympiad competition.

Imagine if @figma.com had a wrapped

The Empire State plaza against a dramatic dark sky.

Good morning, friends!

It amazes me how much of a drug mindless entertainment can be. I don’t need to face difficult things, I can just lose myself to the endless stream of sensible chuckles until sleep takes me.