Tanya Shapiro

The silver lining: I’m truly grateful for all the projects I got to work on in 2025. it took a while to build this momentum 🙏

Tax season as an independent consultant hits different.

My W2 dudes, you have it good by comparison.

Now please excuse me while I consolidate 9 different 1099s 🙃

A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

Lurking on the neighborhood facebook group (as one does in their 30s) and the chats about Girl Scout cookies reads like a Silk Road darknet market:

“You got any thin mints?”

“I can get you trefoils, no thin mints”

“How many do you have and where can I meet you?”

Welcome to the burbs 💀

NoSQL = lots of Googling

as a data person, my Google searches vary widely from "how do i round the edges of a shape in ppt" to "how do i set up my Google Maps API."

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This is a travesty. Full stop.

And while we are on this topic -

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Today is a good day for the Iranian people. May this bring in a new era ❤️

your entities and entity relationships should be the north star of app development, not an afterthought.

no one wants product feature soup.

Is this the year we submit our first ever posit conf talk submission? I thinkest yes.

Any tips from past speakers appreciated😊

I’m in good company here when it comes to sentiments about ICE. I’m horrified. I’m pissed. I’m outraged. I’m heartbroken. And in the middle of all these feelings it’s so tempting to point fingers and blame the people who voted for “him.” But what does this accomplish? It doesn’t change minds. It isolates. It makes people defensive. It deepens the divide. So let’s pivot. Let’s give them permission to change their minds. To opt out. To wake up. We need to unite. It’s the only way through.

Example of a task manager page that lists all outstanding completed and overdue tasks (value boxes pinned at the top), followed by filters (source, project/repo, assignee, and date range), and then a table of tasks.

Clicking on a task in the table triggers a pop up modal with more info about the task, with the ability to edit the description with a rich text editor. Option to add comments directly as well.

Building tools for myself 👷‍♀️

I project manage across tools - GitHub, Asana, SharePoint Lists, etc. Which makes it hard to quantify work and time block across clients.

Working on a "hub" to bring it all together and make life easier 😊

@victorsvector.com ^

I used to think I was cool* Arguable if I ever was.

Geeks are the new cool kids. At least from my vantage point now 😊

A young woman dressed in a leather jacket and all black smiles behind a microphone on wooden stage as she holds her acoustic guitar. She’s a solo act, and soaks in the rush of finishing her first opening set. In the background, her cherry red semi hollow guitar cools off as it rests on a stand behind her.

2016. I used to be cool.

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Accurate. I will spend a week on this just to save myself 20 minutes.

I'm insufferable, but in a fun way. Funsufferable.

and yes, i know {officer} is very handy (i'll take a package anyday over xml) - but there are some things that don't work with my use case. 🙃

i'm too lazy to update a powerpoint every month.

so i guess we're gonna learn how to work with xml in R so we can automate this sucker.

what lazy task is motivating you to learn new things today?

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

💚🦁❤️

YouTube video by Simulated Silicon Valley- Gilfoye's AI Deleted All Software

Late to the party (as usual) but Claude Code is pretty mind blowing.

Of course - back of my mind I'm also thinking of this scene from Silicon Valley....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0b_...

My kitchen counter is adorned with various graphic and data viz books from Taschen including: “History of Information Graphics”, “Graphic Design Vol 2 1960 - Today”, “The Package Design Book” and “Understanding The World.”

Restoring my well of inspiration 📚📈

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love when an enterprise saas company makes changes to their APIs without giving a girl a heads up.

guess we're in reactive plumbing mode today 👩‍🔧

Me (right) and my future wife, Kristen (left)

I offered her an end-of-year promotion and she said yes!

Could not think of a better way to start of this new year. Love you KK 😘

@kweest0n.bsky.social

As a new homeowner, I feel myself entering my professional designer era 💅

It is a very expensive era…

A visualisation of Italy's power lines as illuminated lines

Power lines of Italy.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A perk of being self-employed: no cringe corporate holiday parties.

Moving into new home this weekend. I have the opportunity to redecorate my office.

If I can make it happen, it would be really cool to put together an art wall with some pieces from #rstats artists.

Not all have online shops. TBD on logistics 🤔

Don’t jinx me and this new build 🤣

But this is really helpful advice. I’ve been putting together a monthly budget but a lot of it is random ball-parking. I may have to revisit my maintenance budget!