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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 months

do not hurry

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

first day of my new job @apollographql 👩‍🚀🐕🚀✨

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ashley williams

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7 years

an exaggeration, but only sort of

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ashley williams

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3 years

you: you can't just call everything a supply chain attack surface me, pointing at completely uncompensated open source labor: supply chain attack surface

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ashley williams

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9 years

FUCKING BRILLIANT: echochamber.js by @tessthornton "commenting without the comments" http://t.co/qEAkEpyNMw

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ashley williams

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5 years

big life news time ✨ i'm excited to announce that i'm joining @Cloudflare as a systems engineer. i'm staying on the @rustlang core team and will be doing even more with @rustwasm - and general WASM stuff on Workers! also: i'll be moving to Austin, TX w/ @steveklabnik 🤠💗

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

i was more than anything, angry, yesterday, about the mozilla layoffs. which is weird because it's been 2 years since i worked there but watching it struggle is like watching my own dream die, and i think a lot of others, even folks who never worked at mozilla, feel that way too

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

i am realizing that "go slow individually, so together we can go fast" is probably my most controversial tech opinion

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

this but about developer technolgy

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

fuck the nytimes for even giving this the time of day

The New York Times

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Push for gender equality in tech? Some men say it's gone too far.

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 years

sometimes i am told i don't meet the qualification of "Significant experience in building, growing and running high-performing engineering teams" and i wonder what those people think open source leadership is

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ashley williams

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4 years

hill i'm willing to die on: inducing anxiety is not a good mgmt strategy

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ashley williams

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1 year

🙃

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

PSA: support people are ALWAYS awesome, they knows the flaws of ur product deeply, are rarely given power, and are not paid enough

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

"Betty Crocker? Fuck that shit! Dun! Can! Hines!"

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

9 years

sippin some haterade. just a lil tho http://t.co/rrUHf10ADS

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

i made a meme for my rust friends about my part of the keynote

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

6 years

hello frens, i have some fun news. i'm joining the @rustlang core team and will be leading the community team! i am very excited. ✨

Announcement: Ashley Williams joins the Core Team and taking lead of the Community Team

Announcement: Ashley Williams joining the Core Team and taking lead of the Community Team I’m pleased to announce that Ashley Williams (@ag_dubs) will be taking over my role as the Community Team...

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

1 year

i know this is a 🔥spicy take but going from @vercel at ~$100/mo to @CloudflareDev at $0/mo for improved perf is pretty excellent

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

2 months

tale as old as time

ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 years

you: you can't just call everything a supply chain attack surface me, pointing at completely uncompensated open source labor: supply chain attack surface

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

the threat posed by coronavirus is less that you personally will die, but that the healthcare system will collapse tech people: you should know this, coronavirus is fundamentally a DDoS of our healthcare infra

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@LizSpecht

4 years

I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math. 1/n

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

i think it‘s wild that google thinks js libraries get big because js authors are lazy arrogant idiots and not because libraries are being built by volunteers with 2000 random contributors and no product roadmap

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

9 years

"If you want them to RTFM, make a better FM." - Kathy Sierra via @brnnbrn #jsconfeu http://t.co/kC6cjO73xX

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 years

rustacean board of directors 🦀

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

i am sick of all of the thought pieces on work culture. it's capitalism. it's capital seeking to extend a system that perpetuates capital. it's not about you. that's what's making you upset.

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

what’s the larget z-index on the web? 😂😂😂 #chromedevsummit

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

actually no

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 months

github being refounded on copilot is the napster->spotify transition, they figured out how to be a landlord in open source!

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

i just took a very good picture of my dog and needed ya’ll to see

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

9 years

i may or may not be accidentally making a european-style board game about http http://t.co/mClVBAEnPT

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

hot-take: your support team knows more about your users+product than you do

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

npm is only successful because of the countless unpaid hours of foundational open source pkg authors' /maintainers' time. without this labor/content, npm has *no product*. limiting these folks' ability to seek funding is a massive business mistake for npm.

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

6 years

hey everyone! i have some news to announce. tomorrow is my last day at @npmjs . i'm becoming an engineer at @integer32llc and will be working full time on my efforts with @rustlang as contractor for @mozilla !

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

2 years

i am trying to remember the delightfully cursed website whose text grew exponentially as you scrolled down due to a missing h1 closing tag but now i can't find it!! i used to use it to teach HTML it was like sewing machine tips dot com

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

This is the ideal developer. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Willman Duffy

@willmanduffy

7 years

The best developers I know can recite every line in Space Jam after 2 drinks (either alcoholic or non-alcoholic)

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

lol ya'll i'm writing javascript today and i dunno how ya'll do it this shit is impossible

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

the worst thing about @rustlang is that if you tweet about it the entire core team will try to help you in a very eager friendly way

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

and in before someone says something about chrome, the dream could be about a healthy competitive browser ecosystem but honestly that's too narrow for me to feel this strongly about the dream is about doing good being an effective way to survive

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

rustconf was awesome but i keep thinking about the dude that legit asked me if i "write any rust" when i was literally dressed in a crab outfit

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

lol literally fight me, you gate-keeping dingdong

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

2 years

today is my last day on the @rustlang core team 🧵

Rust Language

@rustlang

2 years

We want to say farewell to @ag_dubs and @aidanhs , who are stepping down from the Core Team to focus on their future efforts. Thanks for all their contributions! ❤️

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

"any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 years

anyways, i think everyone knows but, hey look i did a thing

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

thx so much for having me @jsconfeu ~ you're an awesome audience! here's my deck if you're interested => #jsconfeu

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

🌥️ wasm-pack 0.9.0 is here! 🌥️ 👶 generate a wasm project with wasm-pack new 🎁 release binaries are now optimized automatically with wasm-opt 🤓 a bunch of other fixes and improvements to our documentation

Release 🌥️ 0.9.0 · rustwasm/wasm-pack

✨ Features Adding in --quiet and --log-level flags to control the console output - Pauan, pull/694 The --verbose flag has long existed as a way to get more console output, but now there are two f...

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

2 months

it is Incredibly Difficult to play a significant/impactful role in open source in 2024 without either 1) a bigco salary or an equivalent source of wealth, 2) an (often rapidly shrinking) pile of vc money, or 3) crippling burnout

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

repealing the ACA is more violent than a punch to the face

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

not gonna lie i legit prefer working with career changers and non cs people because it almost always makes them better coders, decision makers, and team members

Ali Spittel

@ASpittel

5 years

My biggest advice to career changers: Don't discount your previous experiences. All of the things you've done before still benefit your future career even if it's very different from your last one. And, if you can merge both careers you're really set up to excel.

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

hey folks help me out (RTs plz): what is your favorite developer tool + why? what was the first programming language you learned? what language ecosystem do you most paticipate in now?

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

i think the way burnout happens for me is when there are long term systemic problems + they are perpetually pushed back in favor of more practical short term solutions until i am actually emotionally incapable of even entertaining the discussion of practical short term solutions

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

gotta be honest the vast majority of the dialogue about programming language popularity is no better than the dialogue around being popular in middle school and it’s also embarrassingly half as effective

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

not gonna lie this whole HTML+CSS in the JS thing is not... my favorite

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

"how do we save vr culture from bed-shitting gamers?" "make vr very fucking gay" - @radiatoryang

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 years

a lesson i am currently learning: transparency and openness are tools; not values

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

dawwww @steveklabnik ‚s first day at @Cloudflare !!

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

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✨WebAssembly Summit 2020!✨ A single day, single track, conference for all things #Wasm . 📅 February 10, 2020 🌎Mountain View, CA 🎟️ Apply to attend: 🎤 Apply to speak:

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

if you are writing a @rustlang web framework plz have it default to port 7878, which is how to spell rust on a telephone dial pad, k thx

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

is it ok to dance at your standing desk

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 years

excited to spend this summer doing some consulting work. if your project or company is looking to grow/refine/overhaul its open source strategy, consider working with me 💁✨

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 years

free software is an important idea in desperate need of better leadership

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

2 months

a big point that is sometimes buried in how i discuss this stuff: i think it would be a massive failure if the only people who could afford to work on open source were employed by a trillion dollar company like msoft, google, or aws

Dan Lorenc

@lorenc_dan

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@bitandbang I think you're conflating "work full time on open source" with "do whatever I want on GitHub and get paid". There are thousands of engineers at across those companies working on teams that happen to do open source work full time, why don't those count?

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

🌊 today is my last day at @CloudflareDev ! somewhat bittersweet, Workers is an awesome platform, and i'll miss my frens. it's only been a year- but i am *burnt out* 🧯 i'm looking forward to a sizeable break before i turn my attention to a new... less 💤RESTful💤 endeavor 🤫😉

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

7 years

there's a dog that does sad howls in my neighborhood at night that i can hear in my apt and sometimes i do a lil sad howl with 'em

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

one of the biggest problems in tech is that everyone thinks they have a valid and important opinion about design, developer experience, and documentation and very very very few folks actually do and we rarely listen to them and always make their life hell

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

whew. this has... implications

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2 years

what‘s updog

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ashley williams

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3 years

feliz navidad ya’ll!

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

so maybe this just reflects on me being a giant weirdo?? but i genuinely feel like i have less time than i did pre-quarantine. way more laundry, way more cooking and meal planning, way more cleaning throw "check in on loved ones" in there and i legit feel like i have *no* time

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

2 months

open source is not ever gonna fix the burnout issue and break even until it stops being sold as a cheaper way to write software.

ashley williams

@ag_dubs

2 months

the LF's pitch has always been that using open source will save companies money and the companies continue to strongly agree.

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

we talk about open source like it's gardening, but i think we need to start talking about it like it's *ecology*

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@ag_dubs

2 years

@shakingframe found it for me!!!! this site is friggin art, i love it so much

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 years

i am crying/vomiting rn, but it's a good cry/vomit

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Mozilla

@mozilla

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Dabble in @dogecoin ? HODLing some #Bitcoin & #Ethereum ? We’re using @BitPay to accept donations in #cryptocurrency

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

i feel like there's a coming dystopia where we explicitly privilege conclusions that ML indicate over other scholarly work and i'm already so grumpy about it

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

whew i almost commented on hacker news just now dodged a bullet there

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@ag_dubs

4 years

really friggin sad day for mozilla, that honestly, has been a very sad 2+ years

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

lol guess who is nervous about giving a talk

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

there is something poetic about the chromium backed edge browser launches the same day as mozilla layoffs

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

i'm on team open source is literally just exploitation today how's your morning

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

3 years

happy birthday @steveklabnik 🎂🎊🎈 ilu ❤️

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

hey folks. who is hiring? i'm looking for something that would ideally allow me to continue my rust and rust-wasm open source work. i have reasonable node chops, but i'd like to keep working in rust. i like working on ops and dev tools. i can also give talks + teach workshops.

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

6 years

my landlord asked if i had a second to talk- i thought that maybe i was in trouble but actually he wanted to talk to me about bitcoin

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

reviewing your own PR is an extremely great practice IMO, if anything, for building empathy for your reviewers... but when I do it i *always* find something i can do to improve

Prince Wilson

@maxcell

4 years

One of the habits I'm making sure to do is to review my own PRs. I think it is healthy for me to evaluate my own rationale. Does it communicate the same thing to another human who isn't the person that wrote it and does it allow for us to go towards the future?

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

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capitalism is not that system. it does not center the worker. it actively alienates the worker. so either you want capitalism or you want to stop feeling so damn alienated. that's the choice. there's no capitalism that centers the worker. full stop.

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

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anyways, no one asked but i suspect that people want to retire to farming, not because they incorrectly assume it's easy, but because they correctly infer that they will be less alienated from their labor

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

tired: CEO of @rustlang wired: supreme crab

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

if i had a nickel for every time i've cited the HTML5 spec's priority of constituencies doc in the last week i would be so friggin rich

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

(also for the love of fucking god get out of my mentions with the fucking browser shit i do not even give a single fuck about that right now, your lack of ability to imagine something larger and more profound than a free browser market makes me grieve for the human race)

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

2 years

how did no one call 911 when web devs started using SSG and SSR and the SS stood for something *different* in each one

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

if you have the *privilege* to stay home during these covid times then it is your *responsibility* to do so it doesn't matter if it's a holiday or not

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

hi twitter, it's me ashley. i am no longer able to maintain a project i really love, wasm-pack. and the working group associated with the project, the rustwasm WG, is no longer active.

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

2 months

when i helped kick off the rust foundation i was so excited to tackle the cultural and economic issues in open source ive been screaming into the void about im still so mad i couldnt convince both my fellow maintainers and the member cos (their employers) that it was worth doing

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

4 years

companies should present a code lookbook to folks when they’re interviewing

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@jckarter

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If code style is so important, then there ought to be code fashion shows

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keeping software small and coherent is hard as hell even if you are getting paid to work on it all day everyday and have literally zero users if you think this is wrong you are lying to yourself

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@ag_dubs

2 years

no kinkshaming

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@ag_dubs

7 years

i feel like a thing that we don't talk about a lot when we talk about underrepresented people in tech is how LONELY it is

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

1 year

a thing i have learned the hard way, multiple times, over the last few years, is that if you are going to engage in a role where your actions have a direct, outsized impact on a large set of people, you need to be prepared for their reactions to have an outsized impact on you

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ashley williams

@ag_dubs

5 years

the main thread should unionize #ChromeDevSummit 😉