Gina Trapani 🏳️🌈
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Software engineers: take your children to work with you. This is pure gold
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Women, queer/NB folks, POC: pick a trusted male colleague who knows your work well and is a strong writer/self-promoter. Ask him to write your professional bio.
You’ll be completely taken aback by what you get.
Then use it.
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Hi. I’m an ancient web developer who is learning modern JavaScript.
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browser extension that replaces shiny new gadget product shots with photos of e-waste landfills
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I stand with trans youth.
It's more important than ever that we stand with trans youth like Gavin Grimm in the fight against discrimination.
#StandWithGavin
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Legally adopted my daughter today. Hooray! And a giant FU to everyone who's tried to deny same-sex couples parental rights.
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Dear fellow white cis women,
When you advocate for women, remember:
✅ Women of color are women
✅ Trans women are women
✅ Not-feminine and/or queer women are women
✅ 50+ women are women
✅ Poor and/or disabled women are women
Stand for all. Hold each other (inc me!) to it.
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The Scully Effect - a perceptible increase of women entering the fields of science, medicine, and law enforcement
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Just look at how beautiful the White House looks tonight
#LoveWins
http://t.co/fZ5QtbgtFO
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“Do what’s right, not what’s easy” is one of my guiding principles
But “Make doing what’s right easier“ is a lot more fun to work on
This explains my entire career in software and also that whole life hacks thing
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Netflix feature request: An "I fell asleep last night" button that takes me to the last half hour of the last thing I watched, with a prompt: "Don't remember this part? Go back another 30"
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Dana Scully: a true gift to nerd girls and women everywhere. Thank you
@GillianA
for 25 years of Scully and changing the - my! - world.
#GillianAnderson
#TheXFiles
💖
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Useful open source project approved and merged my pull request today and damn, that is the best feeling. Never gets old.
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13 women called Cosby a rapist and [crickets]. A man called Cosby a rapist and NBC show cancelled, Netflix special postponed.
Okay.
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<3 this disapproval matrix. Understand the criticism before you consider it
http://t.co/GF0LcMGSRa
http://t.co/YCWvXSeVev
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The woman at the playground who pulls WD-40 out of the diaper bag and fixes the squeaky swings?
Yeah that's my wife.
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Well, this blew up. I don’t have a Soundcloud, but to be clear the takeaway is HIRE MORE MOMS ON YOUR ENGINEERING TEAMS.
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On her first day of first grade my 5yo came out to her class about having 2 moms
“We had to draw things we do with our mommy and daddy and I told them I had a mommy and mama so I did that instead”
and then she shrugged, like, nbd
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"It was so hard we just gave up trying," my 83yo cancer survivor mother, on looking for a vaccination appointment online.
Tech people: We have failed our parents. Badly.
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Dear diary,
Today my 5yo marched down NYC streets chanting “my body my choice” with a giant crowd of kindred spirits and then I chatted with Carrie Brownstein. I would like more days like this, thank you
#WomensMarch2018
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that time Grace Hopper found the first computer bug
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hello, I've got a bit of news, in the form of a minor title change: I'm now a Managing Partner at
@PostlightStudio
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*hyperventilates*
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if you want to see into someone’s soul look not only at their tweets but at their likes
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shout-out to all my introverts married to highly social humans who like to do inexplicable things like "make plans" "with friends" on weekend nights
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How many times in our lives call for a “That is not fair” and how few have the courage/take the risk to say it loud and clear and don’t back down.
Show your daughters: Serena’s a role model.
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My people are having a MOMENT. Did I mention I helped build this web site?
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Kept my little girl up late to watch these speeches & fireworks and wow was that worth it
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sometimes I purposefully show how old I am by using :) instead of 🙂
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Wish I could go back in time & tell my teenage self that someday someone would write the phrase "a disappointing 1GB of RAM." About a phone.
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Some career news: I'm now a partner at Postlight! Turns out I love building software AND businesses. So grateful.
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Dear internet,
Last night my daughter was born. Moms and baby are doing great. Meet our new baby girl Etta:
http://t.co/pVQ5gumM
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Questions my 6yo asked me today:
“Can we open presents now?”
“Why do grownups drink alcohol?”
“Why did Aaron Burr shoot Hamilton?”
“What’s a duel?”
“Can we open presents now?”
“Why did Elsa slam the door in Anna’s face?”
“What does legendary mean?”
“Can we open presents now?”
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What frustrates me about heroizing "bootstrapped": it doesn't necessarily mean "hard-working." It often means "rich to begin with."
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I was out of the office and offline for one day and THIS happens
(I hope they put “gay as hell” on my tombstone)
Congratulations to Postlight Managing Partner
@ginatrapani
for her inclusion on Business Insider's Most Powerful LGBTQ People in Tech list and for being great at her job and gay as hell.
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Saw a Pixar movie about how an 11yo girl's world fell apart when her dad became unavailable & stressed running his SF startup.
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News that I am very excited to share:
@closacco
& I step into new roles today!
.
@Postlight
is growing! We are thrilled to announce
@ginatrapani
as our new CEO and
@closacco
as President. Co-Founders
@richziade
and
@ftrain
will remain full-time executives and continue to build our portfolio and vision into this exciting future.
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Gave up drinking in 2016 & never been so aware of how alcohol-soaked life is. Things you notice when you go sober:
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After midnight.
Her: You coming to bed?
Me: In a little bit! *presses "Create a new repository" button on GitHub*
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At this point in my cis-presenting, middle-aged, married parent queerhood, getting called a dyke is a compliment. It's like "Oh, I'm touched you noticed!"
Happy Pride everybody. 🏳️🌈
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At the corner with 3yo.
Her: We have to wait for the white person.
Me: What? Wait for the... who now?
Her: *points*
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Does anyone ever pick Someday from this list? If you do, control-freak me aspires to be rainbow-trusting you.
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After hating computers for her entire life, my Mom just sent me heart eyes emoji from her iPhone in the family Slack room. 76 years old.
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Yes I make parenting mistakes daily but my kid just asked if we could get a new tool at the hardware store so she can fix things so 💪
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Any manager who gets pissed employees are discussing salary has something to hide,
@Google
.
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Full-time remote work has made me believe in 2 things more deeply than ever:
1. Wired internet connections
2. Wired headphones
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within 3 videos
@wesbos
had me switched to Firefox and VS Code and excited about laying out web pages
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Extra kindness with a side of generosity for everyone today. Give people the time they need to get to "let's get to work" on their own.
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What's even better than gravy on your mashed potatoes? Calling out racist/sexist comments from family members over dinner! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Glitch is well on its way to becoming a legit GitHub alternative but the aesthetic and approach is so different no one sees it that way (yet)
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A Wrinkle in Time was a formative book for me when I was a kid, and as an adult I loved and appreciated every thoughtful choice
@ava
made in the film. When you see it, watch the kids watching it.
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Much of the time raising a toddler is pretty hard but catching raindrops on my tongue with my little girl is exactly what I needed today
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Very good morning hugging my wife and daughter, celebrating our upgrade from second-class citizenship.
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Thinking about it that way, raising a kid is a gradual 20-year breakup with the love of your life. 😢
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Spent a good part of my vacation finessing a Python script that parses my calendar and done.txt to generate a goals progress report in Markdown that gets piped into Day One every week.
As you do.
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Three hours of staring into space thinking about what actually matters is a more productive use of time than an empty inbox, any day of the week.
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You will remove these restraints and leave this cell with the door open.
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Thanks entirely to
@jasonhowell
never giving up on me, it looks like I'll pop up on
@androidshow
before the year is out! See you in December
@ronxo
@Ohthatflo
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As a parent my job is to give my kid the skills & wherewithal she needs to be independent, to not need me. To work myself out of a job.
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I love when trolls think that calling me a lesbian is an insult
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Doing my part to raise awareness about white privilege and Ferguson by arguing bitterly with my family. Happy Thanksgiving!
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At different times for various reasons
@anildash
@ftrain
and
@richziade
have written my bio/about me and every single time: 🤯
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Today I hit the quinfecta: Did video calls on Meet, Zoom, Skype, MS Teams & Slack
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Now that it's okay to use
@reactjs
again, I can say: I've been working on this
@WordPress
+ React thing for awhile
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Here's my advice for beginner programmers
http://bit.ly/3kNYgU
RT
@LazyTechGuy
: Loaded question: I want to learn code. Where do I start?
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Cracked open a 7yo laptop with my 8yo kid tonight & she removed the write protection so we could install a new OS - thank you
@kevinpurdy
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I take full responsibility for the role I played in equating personal productivity with a tidy todo list and an empty inbox. But those are not what makes someone productive.
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Hey friends: what are your favorite examples of geeks using their powers for good? Interpret that how you will. I've got many, want more.
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Watched my little girl walk into kindergarten this morning and not look back 😭
Thinking about it that way, raising a kid is a gradual 20-year breakup with the love of your life. 😢
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Today is my birthday! I'm so grateful to be breathing, loved, working, and healthy. I have a pretty specific wish this year...
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"Mama, can you make the Chewbacca sound? Please? Mama, make the Chewbacca sound! Chewbacca, Mama!" My child, yelling at me on an airplane.
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Partner's admission that she just found out who Milo is triggered fantasy about what not working on the internet every day must be like.
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Career woman. Family man. You never hear anyone say "career man" or "family woman"
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My grandmother passed over 40 years ago yet she still motivates me to get up off the couch, a short essay
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Happy National
#ComingOutDay
!
When people know someone who is LGBTQ, they are more likely to support equality & stand up to homophobes.
Everyone who has risked their safety by speaking their truth: thank you for making my life & my family possible. 🏳️🌈
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It pisses me off that women get paid less than men for the same work. So I made a web site.
http://t.co/3w8PPDs2
#NarrowTheGap
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Hi fellow humans who write code in their leisure time / to avoid extended family discussions of politics & religion. What are you hacking on this week? I'm working on this here thing
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How to foster 20x engineers
OH in
@wirecutter
engineering from a new hire: "Wow, everyone is so polite and helpful in your code reviews here. I always wondered if this was possible" ❤️
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Spent date night talking about our kid then picked up a new LEGO set, hauled it home on the subway and now I can’t wait for her to wake up tomorrow so we can break it open and build stuff
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Talking to my kid about unconditional love this weekend, and she says, "I love you too... even on school days."
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My theory: Steve Jobs was a cutting, arrogant asshole AND a loving, generous person who wanted to make the world better.
Aren't we all?
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Dear person sitting next to me on the subway this morning who Googled "how to act when you're on probation at work" and then texted a friend about how anxious they were about seeing their boss today,
You got this.
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Love is missing the Game of Thrones finale because you're laying down with your toddler who is singing "NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN" top volume
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This week I bought rain boots for the first time in my life. This morning I looked at the forecast, saw rain, so I put them on. Later, I went outside in the rain and my feet stayed dry.
Amazing.
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every single day world news brings fresh heartbreak so my current life strategy is: hug child / appreciate partner / create something / share something / self-care / repeat.
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My little nugget graduated kindergarten this morning and I was That Mom openly blubbering and taking 17,000 photos and videos 😭😭
Watched my little girl walk into kindergarten this morning and not look back 😭
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normally I'm Team Work to Change Things from the Inside but today I'm in a 🔥 BURN 🔥 IT 🔥 ALL 🔥 DOWN 🔥 kind of place
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You say Android is fragmented; I say Android is designed to make you learn the crap out of responsive design & graceful degradation
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People say I'm nice and I just smile because they don't know I'm powered almost entirely by RAGE.
Have a great day! :)
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Scully shaped my idea of how a smart woman should be: deeply skeptical at the mere whiff of bullshit, yet open to new ideas & possibilities
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