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I help build @aspnet at @microsoft . Running and powerlifting in my spare time. Dream big and follow through even bigger.
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lolsob at the epidemic of men who believe that having to think before they speak is a horrifying inconvenience.
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Why would I pay GitHub $100/year for an AI to tell me what code to write when men do it for free?🤔
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Sure, sex is great.
But have you ever merged a PR that was open for 15 days and had 200+ comments.
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A perhaps unpopular opinion (and a little ironic coming from me).
You don’t have to write blog posts, contribute to open source, give technical talks, or anything else to be a capable and great engineer.
You can leave your code at the office and that’s totally fine.
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The most unrealistic thing about Star Trek is how good the engineering team is at estimates.
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Take: People don't miss Google Reader, they miss the ability to curate their content consumption without the invasive nature of recommendation algorithms hindering their autonomy of choice.
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I just finished my first three weeks at Microsoft.
I’m blown away by all the incredibly smart and capable engineers I meet.
Then I realize that I’m one of them and it feels wonderful.
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99.99% of the time, “rockstar” engineers acquire their status by withholding information from the team and setting themselves up as a bottleneck for key development work.
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I wanna tweet out a DNS joke but it might take y’all 24 hours to get it.
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Many people think diversity and inclusion is an additive process (add more "diverse" people) when really it's a subtractive process (remove the hostile people).
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New tech job perk: you get financial compensation every time you are the only woman in a meeting.
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Last night, I attended an event hosted by a company I’ve been interviewing with for the last few months.
I was introduced to their Head of Program who, after a few drinks, told me that I’ll never be hired because I’m three kids in a trench coat.
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No. We can barely teach it to people.
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Takes 10-week programming language design course with a focus on effectively using debuggers.
1 years later: `console.log("here")`
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What you say: We need developers who can work 60 hours a week for five years.
What I hear: Our engineering managers can’t scope and prioritize work, our development workflow is full of needless and time-consuming hinderances, and we’re generally a bunch of assholes!
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My favorite thing to do in meetings with senior (like way senior) engineers is write down the questions that they ask.
The engineers who get to that level are generally the best at their jobs and they always ask the best questions.
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Wanna hear a joke about SYN flood attacks?
Wanna hear a joke about SYN flood attacks?
Wanna hear a joke about SYN flood attacks?
Wanna hear a joke about SYN flood attacks?
Wanna hear a joke about SYN flood attacks?
Wanna hear a joke about SYN flood attacks?
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We've talked about catfishing but have we talked about middle-aged men in corporate America using 10-year old images for their profile pictures?
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Fuck the concept of “passion” that requires that you constantly be excited and committed to your business/project all day, every day.
It’s OK to hate and be disenchanted by the things you love sometimes.
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command line tip of the day: use `man ascii` to display an ASCII table. I always need to look up ASCII codes and this so handy!
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Monetizing open source by making men pay every time they explain a feature I implemented to me.
Problem solved!
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btdubs 🤪
this is a big milestone for me and i'm excited for the next one 😀
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Fellow neat-freaks!
Add this to your .bash_profile and thank me later.
alias gcmb="git branch --merged | grep -Ev '(^\*|master)' | xargs git branch -d"
It cleans all branches you’ve got locally that have already been merged.
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People who have standing desks in their home office: is it worth the hype?
Y'all actually out here standing or nah?
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Not sure why it took me so long to find this handy little icon on
@github
but my life is forever changed.
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Programmer tip of the day: just throw your laptop out the fucking window!
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Think* before your code.
*about ethics, technical complexities, potential negative side effects, goals, intentions, malintentions, improvements, and ramifications
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I just wrote a unit test before writing any implementation code.
I’ll accept my Turing Award now. Thank you very much.
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There are no "visionaries."
There are just people who have access to education, resources, and the freedom, safety, and ease of mind to think creatively.
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I just reduced the size of an app bundle by 49% by replacing a single dependency with an internal utility function.
The dependency was `slug` which brought in 1.9mb of data to handle character encodings that I didn't need in my app.
I love the feeling of spring cleaning!
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I just discovered the nifty `cal` Unix command. It's so useful for when I'm planning things far in advance. I love computers!
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When you’re debugging something and all you can find is a single Google Groups post from Steve A. written in the fall of 2003 with no responses and you realize you’ve never felt true loneliness until this moment.
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git tip of the day: use 'git checkout branch_name -- filename' to fetch a file from another branch to the current one.
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As an engineer you are constantly in a state of discomfort and intellectual incompleteness, a state most people aren't comfortable with.
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i'm curious to know: if you have a disability, what's the hardest thing about browsing the web?
rt for visibility, please and thanks!
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Here’s a wild concept: you can like something *and* be critical of it at the same time.
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This is a response to one of my command line tip tweets.
Imagine if you received these almost every day for 2 weeks. How would you feel?
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command line tip of the day: use `rm -rf` to automatically get rid of all bugs in a directory of code.
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I made fony, a simple command line tool for generating dummy JSON data from a template string. Check it out!
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A while back, I realized that the answer to most "How do I X?" questions is "Start doing it, even if you do it badly. Eventually, if you keep at it, you'll learn the techniques and strategies you need to be successful at it."
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I’ve been writing HTML for over a decade now and I still need to look up the proper syntax for a <link/> to an external stylesheet.
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I'm excited-super-stoked-over-the-moon-happy to announce that I'm joining
@Microsoft
as a software engineer on the
@AzureNotebooks
team.
Looking forward to continue pushing notebooks and interactive computing forward with everyone at Microsoft!
🎉⭐️
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Hello!
I’m still looking for my first full-time, post-grad engineering gig.
I’m looking for SE roles in Chicago/remote starting in early April.
Let me know if you’d like to interview me!
Retweets also appreciated! 🙇🏽♀️
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I couldn't find something like this so I made a small tool that allows you to create a LICENSE file in a directory.
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Announcement time!
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be joining the team at
@tock
as a software engineer in April!
I’ll still be side-hustling on
@tanmulabs
, blogging, doing open source, and being Safia.
But I’m excited to grow and learn with the fantastic folks at
@tock
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There are thousands of programmers who've come before you and thousands who'll come after you and none of them write code like you do.
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*taps mic*
Hi! Hello! Is this thing on? OK. Great!
JUST BECAUSE YOU WROTE TESTS DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE GOOD TESTS.
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command line tip of the day: this one is for us typoists (harhar, get it?), use `^typo^fix` to fix typos in the previously executed command.
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command line tip of the day: use `cat - >> filename` to append content from standard input to an existing file!
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My mechanical keyboard has arrived which means my little home office setup is complete!
I’m so excited to use this keyboard!
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📍 TypeScript errors
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📍Actually thinking |
about your data |
types and code. |
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📍Using any
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command line tip of the day: pipe to `nl` to get line numbers in command outputs!
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Constant Stress and Suffering
What does CSS stand for?
Wrong answers only.
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Me: *starting a new project*
Technical Innovation: React? Vue? Preact? Elm?
Me: *copies index.html from previous project*
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Things open source devs say: "Wait I didn't realize they were actually using this in production."
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OK but can it find my clitoris?
We've trained an AI system to solve the Rubik's Cube with a human-like robot hand.
This is an unprecedented level of dexterity for a robot, and is hard even for humans to do.
The system trains in an imperfect simulation and quickly adapts to reality:
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Knowing how to code can be annoying sometimes because I was trying to book an appointment at the salon but here I am debugging jQuery modals.
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This little function maps `mv` to `git mv` when you're inside a git directory to track filename changes on git more succinctly.
```
function mv {
if git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null 2>&1; then
git mv $@
else
mv $@
fi
}
```
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The software industry is rapidly converging on just three languages: nit-picking, bikeshedding, and pedantry.
It would be smart to learn one of those really well, and have at least a working acquaintance with the other two.
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Little Safia had some code
E-I-E-I-O
And on this code she had some prints
E-I-E-I-O
With a "here" here
And a "here 2" there
Here a "here 3," there a "here 4"
Everywhere a here, here
Little Safia had some code
E-I-E-I-O
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Saying you hate a programming language is a sign of developer immaturity.
They emerge and develop in contexts you might not be aware of.
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This quote came up on my automated quote generator and I *really* liked it.
"One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." — Chinese Proverb
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Howdy!
I read some JavaScript and C code to figure out what happens under the hood when you call ‘fs.access’ in
@nodejs
.
And I wrote about what I found out so you can read it!
Enjoy! ⚡️
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command line tip of the day: use the `units` command to convert between common units (or a custom units file if you prefer).
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Hot take to have with your coffee this morning: men on dating apps who say they want partners who can “handle their sarcasm” are just looking for someone they can verbally abuse without being called out on it.
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The only requirement for being a programmer is being comfortable with constantly learning, especially when it feels overwhelming.
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OK. I figured it out.
Adulting is working and paying taxes so you can go buy ice cream cones at 9pm without anyone stopping you.
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Tidying Up with Marie Kondo but I’m Marie and the closet is a 45 year old code base written in C.
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Ever wondered what happens when you run `cd ~/Downloads`? I did!
I read through some shell scripts and C code to figure out how the `cd` command works and wrote a blog post about it.
Enjoy! ✨
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If you know a Black hair salon that needs web development or SEO work, let me know and I'll take care of them for free. If not, RT please!
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Follow up thought: "haters gonna hate" and "fuck the haters" are not scalable approaches.
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when they leave you alone with the team's codebase for 5 minutes so you reindent and comment everything to your taste.
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There is a mommy rocking her baby girl at this tech conference I'm at.
It's awesome.
The future is female.
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I used to think that the whole idea of tech CEOs avoiding decision fatigue by wearing the same thing everyday was reasonable.
Then I realized that I don’t want people who think choosing their clothing is that overwhelming a task to be leading any industry or company.
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I don't care how many types of coffee and how much catering your office gets, there is nowhere I'd rather work than my little desk at home.
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Funny how none of the white dudes who graduated from the computer science program the same year as me get called “junior” software engineers.
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has earned a coveted spot on my bookmarks bar.
It might not have all the source code on GitHub indexed but, gosh, it's fast and gets the job done.
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What things are inside the `.git` directory and what are they used for?
I investigate and find out.
Enjoy! 💫
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Now is a great time to share that I recently transferred to the team at Microsoft. 😋
I've been working on the Blazor team for a few weeks and it has been fun!
The web is awesome and I want to be one of the people who push the needle with it.
My favorite types of questions to answer on GitHub.
A curious user asked how the parameters in URLs are mapped to properties in Blazor components and I answered with a detailed walkthrough of the code.
You know I love a code deep dive! 😜
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My period tracker has a section that predicts my mood at different times.
I hate how accurate it is because it reminds me I’m nothing more than a meatsack of proteins orbiting the sun with a behavior set completely predictable for a metal box of electrons to figure out.
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Rich, white men will never ban guns because guns enabled, and continue to enable, their accumulation of territorial and political power.
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Best feeling is when your bank balance goes up unexpectedly and you realize it’s because of the monthly royalty payments for the book you self-published.
❤️🌟💯😏🙏🏽
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I’ve been keeping this secret for a while and I know many friends and family have been wondering.
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be getting married in the spring!
I’m so stoked for this next chapter in my life. Here’s a sneak peek of the wedding invitation!
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I'm building , an all-inclusive online platform for independent writers producing paid subscription content.
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I was talking to this dude once and he was raving about how he’s all into the “hustle” and the “entrepreneurial lifestyle” and then he was all like my dad gave me $50,000 to start my business.
lol.
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I made giddy, a git CLI that improves revision history traversal and helps you deal with common git issues!
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