Anjana Vakil

My advice for alt text! You want to give the person the same experience as a sighted person. So if it’s a very well known meme for example and most people just glance and know I’ll just say the template and what words are edited in. whereas with an elaborate visual joke I thoroughly describe

If I had a nickel for every time I, a woman of color, has been told I'm "too loud", "so aggressive", "taking it too far"... For simply speaking my mind, talking in public, and - heaven forbid - challenging men's statements 💀

Have you taken a digital skills course in the UK? Have you done a coding bootcamp in the US? Are you a underrepresented or underestimated minority? Dr. Kate Miltner is doing a study and needs your help! https://www.whoscoding.com/ You can also DM or check her website!

I am never more productive than when I'm procrastinating on something else 🙃

Same here, mostly events that already knew me as a speaker have asked me to MC. And Phil & Jani are some of the best MCs out there so do whatever they say 😅

it begins

InternalError: boat stuck (canal depth exceeded)

anyone else seeing this?

Yes and also the alligators 🐊✊🏽

Or better yet, where every intro to coding book ships with a free laptop

Sipping coffee and wondering what life would be like in a world where every laptop ships with a free intro to coding book

Definitely hope you give it another shot! It's for sure dense & heavy at times, not necessarily a page turner, but I think its commentary is fascinating and the more experienced I get the more I find it to be spot on! Happy to chat about it anytime 😊

I know I’m biased based on my liberal arts/humanities degrees, but it seems bad that those are first programs to be cut when funding gets tight. Seems like having a society without basic understanding of the human condition is really bad and dangerous.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values a book by Robert M Pirsig THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONSA penetrating examination of how we live and how to live betterFew books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a man's search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters. It continues to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.

In the unlikely event your local library doesn't have it, please support your local bookstore

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Photo of the cover of paperback novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", subtitled "An Inquiry into Values", by Robert M. Pirsig. Black text and red Illustration on faded & torn yellow cover.

This book should be required reading for every technologist. I'm on my 3rd or 4th read and it just keeps getting better with time

@codebyte.re heyyy hope you're doing great, would love to catch up in Berlin! 🤗

Going to another country for a while is always a fabulous idea in my opinion/experience! I live part time in Berlin and would be happy to chat & help you find a spot 😊

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Thanks, still getting used to how things work up here! Not sure I'm personally a huge fan of the hellthread experience but I think it's cool how the devs implemented it, along with its "blessing"! I hope they write a blog post or such 🤓🍿

🤔 Hm I'm not sure what code you mean? I just remember saying folks should follow Tierney! Sadly I'm not cool enough to have invite codes to share yet 🙃

Ahoy! 😁🙌🏽✨

Hehe thanks! 😁🙌🏽

Screenshot of the bsky app with header "Post" above an error message saying "RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded (native stack depth)"

Lol I've been on this app for about 5 minutes and somehow already managed to cause a stack overflow! 😂🎉 Seems like me & bsky are both fans of recursion, and I'm very here for it 😊

🎉🙌🏽😁

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Hello, world!