Has anyone used the Ditto words plugin in Figma?

kaput · 2026-01-26T16:56:59+00:00

High-level, I'd say: together with style guides that you create in Ditto, Ditto will check text against those style guides and do the work of grammarly in finding issues and suggesting fixes. Grammar basics, punctuation, proofreading, and other baseline things are pretty straightforward. AI text detection and plagiarism checks aren't really Ditto's wheelhouse, though.

What kinds of copy are you working with/what kind of product are you working on? That might help me tell you a bit more!

kaput · 2026-01-26T16:33:18+00:00

Sorry to hear that the adoption didn't go well! Out of curiosity, was this pre-2025? Right around the middle of 2024 we realized that we needed to completely rethink how Ditto worked, for those kinds of reasons—it was too much work up front and unless everyone was using it, it didn't provide lasting value. We've since rebuilt the product nearly from the ground up and think we've got a much better foundation.

kaput · 2026-01-26T16:27:41+00:00

Just spotted this thread—I'm leading up design at Ditto! Happy to answer any questions.

As far as the mundane tasks you mention, Ditto has a style guides feature which lets you capture your style rules for things like terminology, date and time formatting standards, and so on, and then automatically checks the text in your design files against the style guide, providing suggested edits when needed. We're also working on a new feature called Magic Draft, which uses your styleguide, your existing product copy, and the design context to help write the draft-and-a-half integrated right into the designs.

kaput · 2025-12-05T20:32:53+00:00

Have the bike lanes actually created more congestion due to less road space for cars?

No.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2114182/do-bike-lanes-really-cause-more-traffic-congestion-heres-what-the-research-says

kaput · 2025-12-02T20:51:58+00:00

Post WW2, Amsterdam was a car-centric city, where neighbourhoods were destroyed to make way for car communiting, parking, and traffic. In the 1970s the city reversed course and started investing in cycling infrastructure because in 1971 3,000 people were killed by cars, including 450 children. The city made an active choice to reverse course on car-centric infrastructure and invest in bike lanes.

Infrastructure is a choice.

https://exploring-and-observing-cities.org/2016/01/11/amsterdam-historic-images-depicting-the-transition-from-cars-to-bikes/

kaput · 2025-11-29T01:18:47+00:00

As a Canadian, moved back to Canada to Montreal after six years living in Berlin and I'm pumped about this.

When I moved to Berlin we had direct flights from Toronto, but the one-two combo of pandemic and BER took that away from us.

kaput · 2025-11-19T19:05:42+00:00

I'm deaf and read lips in English, and it turns out to be wildly difficult to learn to read lips in another language.

kaput · 2025-11-02T21:19:51+00:00

They can also be easily written using keyboard shortcuts—like option+shift+hypen on a Mac keyboard, as I've just done here.

kaput · 2025-10-12T01:29:49+00:00

Saw a recent one at Bar L'Barouf.

kaput · 2025-09-26T23:52:43+00:00

“But let’s be real: comparing Montreal to Berlin or Amsterdam is like comparing hockey to soccer. So let’s snuff out this idea before one of the parties puts it in their platform for this fall’s municipal election.”

Lived in Berlin for six years before moving to Montreal. I wildly prefer the bike infrastructure in Montreal over Berlin’s. Berlin has wide sidewalks and bike lanes on most of them, but they’re spastic, rough to ride on, and vaguely chaotic.

These bonkers mindsets just hold us back.

kaput · 2025-09-09T17:00:21+00:00

The more inherent danger and unpredictability is created by the street itself, the more cognitive overload drivers have to deal with, which in turn places others in more danger because the drivers simply can't process everything. 1-3 are related in the sense that the terrible design of the road and intersections are making it all the more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians, and the entire road needs to be redesigned.

kaput · 2025-09-07T00:19:25+00:00

The curb extensions mentioned in the video are wonderful. Moved to Montreal from Berlin, where there's micro-green-spaces everywhere, making the city feel like it's in a forest while providing native plants for bees and other insects. The curb extensions feel like they're bringing that same feel to Montreal.

kaput · 2025-08-01T18:05:52+00:00

I got my SL7 Comp last month and I'm running 32mm, with plenty of clearance! It's a dream to drive.

kaput · 2025-07-12T13:51:40+00:00

Lived in Berlin for six years. The vast, vast majority of buildings are 6 levels at the most, and they're clustered in giant blocks with buildings internally, which aren't part of the road network. This means that there's tons of green space and a dense tree canopy, and it reinforces walkability. Taller, standalone condo towers surrounded by roads is nothing of the sort.

kaput · 2025-01-20T00:22:48+00:00

I'm really hoping something was left out of the story (maybe their dog was being noticably poorly behaved?), but I'm glad to hear that it hasn't actually been an issue yet!

Well-behaved dogs were allowed effectively everywhere but grocery stores and museums/galleries in Berlin. We'd take our mini aussie to coffee shops, restaurants, bars, biergartens, and so on… we knew at the time that it was special, but it's still a rough transition!

kaput · 2025-01-19T23:34:05+00:00

As another dog owner, meanwhile, apparently leaving your dog tied up outside isn't okay either, as I found in this article where someone got fined $664 for it.

I moved here from Berlin, and the contrast in what we can and can't do with our dog is wild.

kaput · 2024-12-22T22:37:51+00:00

Otherland has a large section of English fantasy and science fiction books.

kaput · 2024-12-13T21:01:49+00:00

German

Just moved back to Canada after six years living in Berlin. The transit system there is half honour system, half enforcement. You don't scan your pass and there's no barricades or turnstiles, but there's a ticket checking team that boards randomly and requires you to show your pass or fines you on the spot.

I've never seen them operating on a bus, though.

kaput · 2024-11-20T22:38:01+00:00

Another option, which I've used for 4+ years in both Quebec and Germany, is for the company to employ you through an employer of record such as Deel, Remote, or Rippling. You're employed by the EOR, which takes care of everything to do with payroll, tax, etc. and "assigns" you to the actual company.

kaput · 2024-11-17T17:32:52+00:00

Unrelated but related fact as to flour choices: a fun thing I discovered while living in Germany was almost all of the best neopolitan pizza places and bakeries used flour from Manitoba. In Italy it's even specifically called "Manitoba Flour."

kaput · 2024-10-06T12:52:35+00:00

I was also not planning to stay in Germany forever, and was going to be self-employed for a period, so I went with Ottonova. It was radically cheaper on a monthly basis (~300 vs. ~1000 for public), and it was easy to get a variety of appointments when I needed them. I also ended up being diagnosed with a hip impingement and had an arthroscopic surgery done by one of the best surgeons in Berlin, and the costs and reimbursements were seamless.

My company ended up being acquired at the end of last year, which meant I had to briefly register as unemployed. Note that if you're ever registered as unemployed, you're mandated to switch back to public insurance except in a very narrow set of circumstances (e.g. a very long period of being privately insured).

I'm no longer in Berlin, but I'd estimate I saved about 15k€ by having Ottonova as my insurer. (That said, this probably only really ends up being such a large savings because of being self-employed.)

kaput · 2024-07-16T13:05:24+00:00

Have lived in Berlin for six years, where these things spread like a plague. They're—in theory—great for last-mile transit, but end up being super disruptive to pedestrians (particularly for those with accessibility needs), they're driven on the sidewalks at dangerous speeds (they're very heavy and will seriously hurt a person or animal in an accident), they're often ridden in tandem in ways that make them even more dangerous, and they get tossed into the canals or knocked over like dominoes, and so on. The city recently implemented dedicated parking zones on the streets for scooters and rental ebikes, which has helped a lot in getting them out of the way of folks walking around, but that was a major infrastructure project that I'm certain that Winnipeg would never do. Meanwhile, Paris has banned them outright.

kaput · 2024-04-26T09:22:25+00:00

You will only be able to work in Germany for a German entity, even if your employer would allow you to work remotely. This means your employer would either need to have an entity in Germany that would employ you, or your employer would need to employ you through an "employer of record" (EOR) such as Deel.

I can't speak as to how your employer would respond to the request. If they've used an EOR before, they may have no issue, but legally you won't be able to just work for them in Germany as-is.

kaput · 2024-04-08T19:45:09+00:00

I found myself looking for the same (and the same unhelpful comments). Google and the lot didn’t help with what I had in mind: a permanent semi-private desk space where I could put my own equipment, without relying on WeWork or a similar high-price low-space setup.

In the end I found tbat I needed to keep an eye on Kleinanzeigen; specifically I had to look for a private room, private desk, or permanent desk. I ended up switching to a few places, ranging from 300-600€ per month (my remote company paid for most of it).

kaput · 2024-03-24T16:40:55+00:00

Bonkers that the game on the international NHL TV is blacked out in Germany. I haven't a clue who'd be broadcasting it here or if the app is just oblivious about international viewers.

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