Ellen Shapiro

I will say, as someone who rarely uses the phone anymore, I will absolutely call your ass rather than looking at text bubbles for 20 minutes trying to find you.

I had to twist my wife's arm to get her to do this last week, and it was maddening. "You're both trying to figure out where to go […]

Teenagers no longer answer the phone: is it a lack of manners or a new trend?

Teenagers? I haven't picked up a call in years - it's literally the worst way to get in touch with me and I'm 43!

Subclass-based inheritance? More like a nepo baby classes.

What you think software development will be like:

Them: “We need a bike shed.”
You: “Sure, here you go.”

What software development is actually like:

Them: “This bike shed can’t hold our cargo plane. What’s your plan?”
You:
Them:
You: “I’ll get back to you next week.”

So, the last time Cook bribed Trump (a $1M donation to his inauguration fund) the Apple tech bros kept telling us that was a personal donation from Cook, not from Apple the company.

What's their line of defense gonna be now that the bribe has a big ass Apple logo on it? […]

Ok so nothing in this article is good news, but I can’t stop laughing at the naming of “GoLaxy”, which sounds like the name of an extremely aggressive laxative brand instead of an AI propaganda firm gift link] [ […]

Japan is suffering from a severe heat wave that melts restaurant food models. The temperature of mor.. - MK Japan is suffering from a severe heat wave that melts restaurant food models. The temperature of more than 40 degrees Celsius continues to rise, and the highest figure since the statistics of the weat..

Temperatures are so high in Japan this summer that the beautiful food models they have are melting

https://www.mk.co.kr/en/world/11385532

(It is my dream to one day learn how to make those things)

Thanks for a fun week, SF! Was good to hang out and see some of you. I’m sure I’ll be back.

They’re having to ask everyone who sees that boarding was supposed to start on the app and on the board, to go sit back down because the plane isn’t landing for another 10 minutes.

This is a thing United does that drives me nuts - clearly sees their schedule is impossible, but refuses to update […]

Screenshot of United live activity Inbound plane in the air Boarding in 4 minutes

These seem like somewhat contradictory pieces of information, United

“We should go to Golden Gate Park to get away from all the craziness downtown around the Dead and Company shows” - me, not realizing said shows are *in* Golden Gate Park 🤦‍♀️

We are modernizing the user interface

Pray we do not modernize it further

Very successful 4th wedding anniversary in that we both forgot about it until my in-laws called to wish us a happy anniversary 🤦‍♀️

Screenshot of tweet from Ben Kowalski @benjkowalski What would you like to see on the @figma mobile app? What would make it more useful for you and your team?

Hey Fediverse: The design director who works on the Figma mobile app is looking for some feedback. If you're on X, reply there but if you're not, reply here and I'll forward the feedback!

* - I can't promise anything in terms of what we'll actually build […]

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A cute baby elephant

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Figma CEO surrounded by cheering executives as he rings the bell at the New York Stock Exchange for Figma’s IPO

So this happened

Shot inside a bus aligned with the outside, showing the bus at a fairly steep uphill angle

Shot inside the bus aligned with the bus, with the outside of a blue house at a crazy angle going uphill

Shot inside the bus aligned with the bus, with the outside of two different houses at a crazy angle going downhill

The 24 Divisidero bus is not a bus, it’s a roller coaster.

Achievement unlocked: Walked to my friend's place in Bernal Heights from 30th and Mission without having a heart attack, having my knee give out, OR puking.

Still needed two hits off my inhaler, but that's pretty standard when I climb giant-ass hills.

I have a vague theory that the usefulness drop off people experience building software with LLMs correlates with the pattern we see in software companies where prototypes / proofs of concept focus exclusively on the frontend / ux (which to an extent makes sense from a product market fit […]

Oh no, I just mechanically deleted derived data to deal with a weird compiliation issue

...on plane wifi

...during a Github outage.

@andytiedye I mean that's been going on for quite a while now. Although I guess functionally it's about the same as a DDOS attack...

Disruption with some GitHub services GitHub's Status Page - Disruption with some GitHub services.

All right FINE it does look like GH is having an incident I will allow it https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/s6d4x8c6cvv5

Man trying to get Github comments to load on plane wifi is ☠️

It always kills me that I can load entire newspaper pages with five tons of weird ad shit but not a PR with a ~40 line diff

Lilia is with me, though she’ll probably be conferencing (the entire reason we’re coming out in the first place, so I suppose that’s fair)

Hey SF friends, I’ll be around starting tomorrow* thru Saturday! Hit me up if you wanna hang!

*- assuming we don’t get stuck at ORD all night after a 1.5 hour ground stop thoroughly fucked their schedule

@mergesort "Not bitter at all, you dick"

@dnanian Jimmy Carter outlived his obit writer by a full decade

If I had a dollar for every time I've had to reinstall the 1Password Firefox extension on my dad's computer because it mysteriously stopped working, I could buy a milkshake in which to down my sorrows.

(I probably am going to have to reset his Firefox profile if it does it again, bleargh)

I'm sure we will see all sorts of horrifying data breaches from irresponsible vibe coding in the future, but this is want one of them - just good old fashioned irresponsible bad programming

I'm seeing a lot of commentary blaming the egregious data leak from the Tea dating safety app on vibe coding

I'm confident that, in this particular case, that's not what happened: the code at fault looks to have been written back in late 2023 […]