Justyna

I hurt my toe yesterday. I should probably stop walking to the garbage chute barefoot...

#WarRavagedPortland

Well, now I guess I know what the 10th amendment says. I’m learning all this stuff quite a bit faster than I expected to.

we will retvrn to XP before the decade is out

I am so ridiculously excited about this. Happy things.

Over 14,000 physicians currently practicing in the United States, concentrated in underserved Midwestern+Southern states, are currently working on H-1B visas.

This is the high-skill visa program, lifeblood for critical sectors, that the US Administration is sledgehammering.

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Like, if you know you’re not the ones running payroll for my contract, don’t ask me to fill in all that stuff at on-boarding.

I’ve started some cool contract work this week, but the number of apps that are asking for my full history and banking details is starting to feel like a bit much.

I’m sure the Sparks could use you. They were playing so much better this year, but still need a bit more help.

New words I'm seeing everywhere this year: agentic and dogfooding. I'm not thrilled with how either is being used. We had better words for both these things already.

Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.

As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

I've been doing a cool little Spanish class online and just came across the word igualmente. And it's sort of perfect.

Driving through Bakersfield this morning and remembering how much I loved Honey Don’t. Everyone was cast so so well.

The system is working as expected. That the people who run it didn’t notice isn’t that relevant.

Totally, the casting and styling were so right in all the ways.

Ran into a novel SEO problem this week and now I've spent a bunch of time catching up with ahrefs and search engine land. It's one of those things that can be fun if you only need to do it from time to time.

I’m very much still figuring out the wonders of having your car washed. LA is a strange and wonderful place.

My near-perfect car is missing a hubcap. And it is pretty hilarious to see the guy cleaning it shining the tires.

So, it’s clean for another 2 or so months, yes?

The middle cat went chasing a squirrel across the tops of our connected buildings. I’m not sure whether I’ll hear from the hoa first or need to find a cat therapist because of how sad he is the squirrel didn’t want to play.

Charlie the cat standing on a laptop

Charlie the cat lying on a couch

Charlie the cat asleep next to a toy.

Charlie update.

Congrats on the book, but, umm, where is LA? We have so many lovely bookstores!

A silver SUV has crashed into the side of a brick building marked "Drive-Thru Pharmacy."

i think both sides are to blame here

it was the worst of times, its was the wow somehow it keeps getting worse of times

I have a new lap cat.

The number of times I’ve heard “[well-known company] does X so we should do it that way” is exhausting to think about. A/B testing can be a big help when this happens. At least in the case of existing apps…

We are left with an eleven year old and a kitten, which I’m sure means we will have some hilarious stories soon.

When I said that three cats was a lot, I really really didn’t mean I wanted one of them to have a secret heart condition. We’re completely heartbroken.

But I’m sorry you had to be up so early.

We have flocks of parrots here. And while they don’t attack, I can confirm that they scream bloody murder for hours at dusk.