Ann Robson
@arobson
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📚 🎸 🎨 💖 🤓 Former pretty good software engineer
San Francisco
Joined March 2008
@Microsoft offers its unconscious bias training free online. https://t.co/d5UUXsU4on I did it, it's excellent. TO EVERYONE: please share this with your companies!
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At the farm today. The one I grew upon. Perhaps for the last time. Despite my wishes and the magical silver cup.
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OG GAN Moby Dick ends spectacularly and ominously: "small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." Hope we fare better.
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Feeling pretty romantic, I'm thinking of designing a custom scent for my sweetheart for Valentine's Day. 🤓♥️🌸 https://t.co/MgycwPYjcH
https://t.co/sAEExn2p6t (don't worry, she doesn't read Twitter)
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I'm crying. I'm so relieved. My neighborhood (Castro, SF, CA, USA) is shouting.
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Photos of Brianna Noble, 25, riding atop her gelding, Dapper Dan, with her fist held high, capture a defining moment of hope during the Oakland protests for #GeorgeFloyd. https://t.co/noSQpJ8Q9V
kqed.org
Brianna Noble rode atop her gelding, Dapper Dan, at an Oakland protest against the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. A photo of her inspired awe amid turmoil, and she talked to KQED about...
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Paging all former Performance Calendar contributors: now is the time to start writing and/or solicit contributions from the peeps around you.
calendar.perfplanet.com
Passionate about a topic? Working on a new tool? Have a technique you want to teach? Research you've done? Tell the web performance community! Send your articles to [email protected]. Please include:...
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I'm so happy and excited! I start my new job tomorrow. I don't know what it's going to be like yet, but it's exactly the job I wanted: Frontend engineer at Khan Academy. 😍💃💃💃💃
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I was sick in bed yesterday, and I congratulated myself for not drinking any coffee. But then I realized I ate almost a whole pint of Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch ice cream. So I had better not congratulate myself too much.
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Even so, I would err on the side of gzipping files that don't benefit from it.
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Gzipping files that have native compression (such as images) is not useful and can actually make the resources slightly bigger. https://t.co/KcWkYVPrFY icydk
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From the standard best practices for reducing payload we know the following rule: Don’t use gzip for image or other binary files. However lets see if this is true in practice and if not what are the...
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A seemingly small but valuable detail for web dev productivity: use different favicons for staging and prod.
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Wish I had https://t.co/R4Q0r2R8Gd when I was a young, queer zinester trying to express myself and connect with people. So much good stuff.
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When looking for a new job we must personally rank the leadership of the companies we consider, in addition to evaluating the product. If you don't like the CEO, don't work there
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Since psychopaths are drawn to careers in the church https://t.co/8sEXqdhEbY, and we have functional neuroimaging to detect if someone lacks a conscience https://t.co/d35XuWyW6g, why not screen priests?
theweek.com
And which have the fewest?
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I thought it was a pretty innocent search : "cucumber stock photos" Is that what Google thinks of me?! 😬 (Don't do it.)
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My favorite podcasts lately have been Freakonomics (always), TAL (archives), American Fiasco, and I Only Listen to The Mountain Goats. #americanfiasco #themountaingoats
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I showed my 13-year-old daughter a web app I am working on, and OMG she schooled me. Her feedback was sharp. Talk about fresh eyes.
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