Rachel Stephens

Not sure my 4 year hears a difference between “K-Pop” and “cake pop.”

Not gonna lie, I would watch Cake Pop Demon Hunters.

Strong Hook vibes clip.cafe/hook-1991/my...

Vibe Coding vs. Spec-Driven Development In some circles vibe coding is all the rage right now. (In fact my colleague Kate Holterhoff declared this to be “hot vibe code summer).” Why the appeal? As I discussed in a previous post, AI-powered ...

Perhaps vibe coding can scaffold code quickly or spin up small projects, but at scale it has significant limitations. Spec-driven development has emerged as a potential response to this gap.

redmonk.com/rstephens/20...

I really need to stop treating browser tabs as my to do list

'why is my computer so slow?'

activity monitor > it's your browser, dummy

'which of these tabs is the problem?"

close many things

activity monitor > it's still your browser, dummy

'oh no... I had a second secret browser window full of 80% the same tabs that were open in the other one'

“THEY’RE MY FEET! I DO WHAT I WANT!”

It’s nice to know that no matter what the work day throws at me, nothing else today will be harder than getting my 4 year old to wear his shoes.

Honestly I feel like this might have been a Batman and Robin situation. This interview has one extremely iconic asskicking participant and one very enthusiastic sidekick there to ask questions. :)

I was instructed to find a ~1 minute long promotional soundbite of my conversation with @kat.lol, but I feel pretty confident I can sell you with just 5 seconds.

Come hear the whole thing, it's a delight: redmonk.com/videos/kat-c...

Just had to console my four-year old because “Jupiter has more moons than us and that’s not fair!”

Congratulations! Hope your wedding day is amazing!

The exact opposite of “fresh clean clothes from the dryer” is “your kid’s beloved shirt pulled out of the freezer, where you put it to try to harden the bubblegum before you try to scrape the goop off with a butter knife.”

I am actively mad that I can’t use emdashes anymore for fear of being accused of using AI

Fever to debut ‘Stranger Things’ alternate jerseys The Fever are paying homage to Netflix’s fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” with a limited-edition jersey that mirrors the ominous images of the show’s fictional and retro town, Hawkins, Indi...

Caught the end of the WBNA Fever-Aces game and wanted to make sure everybody (and by everybody I mean @sogrady.org) knows the Fever had Stranger Things jerseys on tonight. www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

Work hard. Always work hard.

But don't kill yourself for work, because work can kill you enough on its own. You don't need to hand it the weapon.

In one of these jobs I worked such long hours in front of a computer that I gave myself corneal distortions.

I fucked up my eyes and couldn't wear contacts for almost a year, and what did that get me? Laid off just like everyone else in my division when the economy crashed.

I was just getting a toehold post-college when the 2008 recession hit, and I had job after job fall out from underneath me over the span of 2 years.

It was rough at the time, but now I'm really glad that my first major career lesson was:

you can love your job but THE JOB DOES NOT LOVE YOU BACK

It would be awesome if the word 'bashful' meant what it sounds like it should mean, and we find out all these seemingly timid, shy people are secretly just destroying people left and right.

"I'm so bashful - I just bashfulled three people in that meeting."

High
Way
To
The
Mangerzone

they refuse to release the loot and end up stuck.

(Usually this memory surfaces when I have tried to fish sugar cereal out of our pantry containers with my hand. I can reach the good stuff just fine but really have to work at wiggling a hand full of Frosted Mini Wheats back out again.)

I regularly think about the part of Where the Red Fern Grows where Billy traps the raccoon in the log with angled nails. He lures the raccoon to reach in for something shiny and then the raccoon can’t get its arm out again.

The book says it could get unstuck if it dropped the shiny treasure, but

Two truths and a lie answer revealed!

Answer: 3!

because "most cars are going and only sometimes do we stop, but mostly we much go and then most cars stop"

It's really hard to play this game against 4 year old logic. :)

Your choices are:

“1. I ever see houses
2. I always see dogs
3. Most cars stop”

Which is the lie according to my preschooler?

Would you like to play Two Truths and a Lie with my four-year old?

The topic is “our commute to daycare”

You ready?

"ephemeral community" is the perfect phrase for this experience

"Hey, look at you all cleaned up! Where's the Harley t-shirt?"

"Long time, no see!"

"We're gonna make it!"

Watching people make mini connections makes me feel a little more optimistic about society as a whole.

Still not at all optimistic about my travel logistics, but I feel better about humans.

I legitimately love watching all the passenger reunions happening at the gate right now as everyone from our diverted flight tries once again to make it to Newark. All the strangers from yesterday's flight became single-serving friends.

"will you please stop" feels like a rude request

The last time my flight was delayed I ended up seated next to William Shatner.

Today my flight is delayed and another passenger two seats away from me in the lounge decided to start practicing the flute.

You win some you lose some.

hugs. sorry friend, it really is the worst. I hope you find relief.