Theresa 👩🏻‍💻

When I say "I have a conflict with this meeting" I do not mean that I have another meeting at the same time.

What I mean is, I take ubmrage against it. I have a feud with it on a historic scale.

Let me guess... your dog in a hound? 😆

Image depicts a variety of stickers: a malort bottle, 404 democracy not found, a blue box, a tarot card, a bird with a camera for its head, the Clipper chip, and a spicy pillow.

Inspiration hit. All the new stickers arrived today!

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Sign me up! I'm almost finished knitting my first vest 😊

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

I have to say you were not at all wrong 😆

It’s officially here! @ladybug.dev is back! 🐞

Buckle in for the next 10 weeks as @emmabostian.bsky.social and I cover tons of important topics on engineering management.

Welcome to Season 7!

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As someone who is a team lead is exactly the way you describe in your spicy take, I *loved* this episode. Great info and so relatable. Really looking forward to the rest of the season!

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!

age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

"Controlled by billionaires, not humans" 🔥 Fantastic talk, fantastic delivery!

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Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.

I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED

I'm old enough to remember when Google's biggest selling point and best feature was that they were "just search" 😒

I know! The episodes are too short!

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Enlight: Earliest known use - Old English. The earliest known use of the verb enlight is in the Old English period (pre-1150). Enlight is of multiple origins. A word inherited from Germanic; probably modelled on a Latin lexical item. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by derivation.

Delight: Earliest known use - Middle English. The earliest known use of the noun delight is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for delight is from around 1225, in Ancrene Riwle. It is also recorded as a verb from the Middle English period (1150—1500). Delight is a borrowing from French. Etymons: French delit, delite.

Fortunately we have etymology to tell us where words come from! According to Merriam-Webster and OED, delight is derived from the French 'deliter', while OED says enlight is probably Germanic or Latin derived. Enlight has been around longer though! English is weird and delighful :)

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

The way I NEED a new Animal Crossing says nothing good about mine either

Never provide more personal information than absolutely required when signing up for anything

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

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We've been visiting Asheville for decades. April was our first visit post-Helene. So sad to see how much damage was done, but it was a relief to see businesses we love reopening. Everyone was so positive despite it all. Our hearts are with you during recovery 💜

This was one of my favorite talks at Build. Excited to use CSnakes in our production C# code that uses python for fuzzy text matching.

The word “login” comes from throwing a log attached to a rope with knots overboard a ship to see how many knots go by over time (see also, knots as speed). You’d then put that info in the “log book.” You’d “log in” on a regular basis. This wasn’t from 1959, it was likely from 1689! Etymology baby!

I don’t need to pay for software to write shitty code when I’m more than capable of writing shitty code myself.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Yes, What We Pay Teachers Matters Paying teachers well is an essential part of a healthier public education system

It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.

One of them was probably me canceling my Substack account. Sorry but Substack is terrible 😬

reading the news is like a DDoS attack on my brain

This is how I conduct interviews when hiring devs. You can even bring me code you’ve written before, but we’ll spend time discussing the what, hows, and whys about it- sans computer.