Paige Watson

UK friends, please help out if you feel comfortable.

Dustin Thostenson -Talking at Seattle Code Crafters meetup on Thursday August 28, 2025/

This month we welcome Dustin Thostenson to Seattle Code Crafters!

All are welcome.
Zoom opens at 9:30am Pacific for community time.
Talk starts at 10:00am Pacific.
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Favorite new catch phrase:
“If it’s not worth doing, it’s worth doing with AI.”

Every. Single. Day. my teenagers wake up in a country in which raping children does not disqualify a financially & morally bankrupt felon from being President of the US.

But also in a country in a Code Red for air quality b/c the grown-ups are pretending there's no #ClimateCrisis.

#TrumpsteinFiles

Why do you offer me a "Skip" button and it doesn't work???
It's almost as if this dialog was written without TDD.

The ugly face you make when you find out the bribe you took to fuck over all of the other 49 states has been snatched back.

Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.

Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.

Since May:

Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.

Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.

A judiciary at war with itself.

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money.

They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America.

There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

Flyer for the June 26th, 2025 Seattle Code Crafter's meetup announcing Paige Watson's talk: Focus, Flow and Cold Coffee. 10:00am Pacific, all are welcome.

Last minute update!
Tomorrow and 10:00am Pacific time, I will be speaking at the Seattle Code Crafter's meetup on my journey as a software developer with #ADHD.

Please join us.
This is an online meetup and everyone is welcome.
www.meetup.com/seattle-soft...

Exercising my constitutional right today and I was amazed at the number of people in cars showing the “Thumbs Down for Trump” hand signal.

👎👎👎👎

Some of them even had MAGA hats!!!

Protesting with signs saying “defeat fascism” and “I’m here because I love America”

Downtown Monroe, WA had 480+ patriots on the street , using our constitutionally protected rights to try and save our democracy.

If you are attending a protest today, stay safe and know your rights ⬇️

"You are not more important than anyone else, but you are not less important than anyone else"

Truth.

"Pecha kucha" talk at OOP Munich in Feb 2017. A pecha kucha talk consists of 20 pictures which are shown for 20 seconds each. Test Driven Novel Writing

Would it be possible to transfer the test-driven development paradigm over to writing fiction? Test-driven novel writing? I think so!

Here’s my pecha kucha talk on the topic from @OOP Munich: youtu.be/s9rPI1lPWfc

#CSudberyRecordings #PechaKucha #TestDrivenDevelopment #TDD

Come join us at 4 eastern today. RSVP at the meetup link below.

Why Servant Leadership Will Transform Your Program Management Career: A… | Jason Adams Hey Folks, Reflecting on my career path has led me to contemplate what truly matters to me. One concept that resonates deeply with me is servant leadership, a philosophy that guides my professional ...

Jason Adams just wrote a fabulous post on why servant leadership is so important to your project management.
Highly recommend:

www.linkedin.com/posts/jason-...

Aiden Key from GenderDiversity.com giving a talk on "Supporting All Gender Identities"

What an amazing (and humbling) talk by Aidan Key on "Supporting All Gender Identities".
I got to see him at yesterday's @snocoindivisible.bsky.social meeting, and walked away with more understanding and knowledge.
More here: genderdiversity.org

It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.

Priority seat signage with pictograms showing reserved seating for the elderly, injured, pregnant (with wi-fi waves seeming to emanate from her belly), and those with young children. Text is displayed in multiple languages.

“Are you okay, ma’am?”
“I think I swallowed my router.”
“Here, take my seat.”

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton Literally every company now

Duolingo right now:

youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION “Slip the switch” by flipping it while the trolley’s front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt. Thank a rail worker today!

unions: they get the job done

Don’t know why it’s asking you for that. I can create an account with just an email address. Bummer.
It may be recorded and available online later.

Focus, Flow, and Cold Coffee How my ADHD made me a better programmer

I don't know. If they want to record it, I will allow them to. I believe that they will, and can post the link to my site when they do.
softwareascraft.com/talks/focus-...

Flyer for "ADHD0Driven Dev Practices with Paige Watson"

Next Thursday, June 5th, online at 4:30pm Eastern
I'm going to be a little vulnerable and tell you about great practices that work well with my ADHD.
All are welcome.

www.meetup.com/phillyxp/eve...

Reminder: boycotts don’t have an end date.

Two-week boycotts are not boycotts and the companies being boycotted do not care.

In fact, they are probably happy because they feel it will help them avoid an *actual* boycott.

AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request GitLab is a program code repository. It’s got an AI coding bot, because of course it does — it’s called Duo and it runs on Claude. Duo will make suggestions, analyse submitted pull requests and eve…

AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5o... - video

It’s not too late to make the decision to join us on Zoom June 5th.

ADHD-Driven Dev Practices with Paige Watson, Thu, Jun 5, 2025, 4:30 PM | Meetup # **ADHD-Driven Dev Practices:** ADHD can feel like chaos — a mind racing with ideas, a desk full of cold, half-drunk coffee cups, and a to-do list that’s both overwhelmin

@softwareascraft.com is going to be speaking at the next PhillyXP meeting about ADHD and Software Development on June 5th at 4:30 Eastern. I for one am really excited about this one. RSVP here if you are too: www.meetup.com/phillyxp/eve...

I'm pretty sure in the mid-2000's I create a website that used every single one of them.