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Making memes, dreams, & software! CTO @brainstoryai , married to @ijoosong . Sign up for my newsletter for tech news, coding practice, jokes, + more! She/Her ✝️

Chicago, IL
Joined October 2011
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Ohhhhh
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I made a new emoji that I call "mild panic"
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I was doing a late night debugging session and I couldn't figure something out and then I googled it and the first result with my answer was a blog post that I wrote
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I love being a woman on the internet
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ASMR for developers
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My heart goes out to all family IT support this season ❤️🦃
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Don’t deploy on Fridays, friends
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Me trying not to touch my face while working
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Fun fact! Baby elephants are born weighing ~250 pounds, making them the world’s biggest babies, right next to the people who complain that CSS isn’t really coding 🧠✨💅🏼
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Why don’t bosses ever tell you why they want to talk
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Ladies, if he: - is 27 years old - is tough to understand at first - won't let you exit easily - discourages your using arrow keys - ships default with Linux-based operating systems He’s not your man, he’s vim
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What's stopping you from coding like this?
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Today I accepted a job at @Netlify on their Developer Experience Engineering team! I'm SO excited to join, everyone I interviewed with is brilliant and hilarious, and I'll be starting at the end of April! 🤩
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Trying to find my way out of vim
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A wise QA dev once said, “There is no I in team, but there is a u in bug.”
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3 years
Serious developers need serious keyboards. I'm so proud to be the first user of The Key.
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On the lookout for some good coders 🔎
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🟥🟩🟥🟥🟥 🟩🟩🟥🟥🟥 🟥🟩🟩🟥🟥 🟥🟩🟥🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not Wordle, just my unit testing results
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Sometimes the best debugging and testing tools were the friends we made along the way
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Git and I are in a committed relationship but it pushes me sometimes
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Programmers in their 20s? More like programmers in the 20s 🥂
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Of cors this would happen
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your fear of looking like a dummy is holding you back you are a dummy accept it you learn more + it's more fun once you do
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Rest In Peace, Oke. You were a light and a talent. #EndSarsNow
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Nigeria will not end me
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I'm: ⚪️ a man ⚪️ a woman 🔘 an aspiring vim user and I'm looking for: ⚪️ a man ⚪️ a woman 🔘 how to exit
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Life as a 10x engineer
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*1 week sprint turns into a 3 week sprint*
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I got this “pocket developer” die and I love it so much
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"eslintConfig": { "overrides": [{ "just let me live”: true }] }
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Adding a feature to a legacy codebase
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Happy Friday, developers ❤️
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Sometimes one is rendered powerless against one’s own jokes, defying all punderstansing
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let yourself have a var-y merry const-mas
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I've come to the conclusion that Hamilton was about open source
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Don't believe what you see on the internet, kids
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you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the person who has to make slides about team strategy
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I use heavy keyboard switches so that developers can't say I don't like strong typing when I use JavaScript
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My @GitHub Stars award arrived! I'm so honored and grateful to be a part of this group ⭐️
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Something better than just waiting for a meeting to slowly end
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I have news!! I'm joining @remote as their Head of Developer Experience and Education! ✨
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It's time people knew the TRUTH about their own websites
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public static final fantasy
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GitHub Copilot knows the future!!
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Well well well, if it isn't the Jira ticket I put in the backlog 5 months ago
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label: wontfix
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Always make sure you have a team that has your back ❤️
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“It’s just not my type of development, okay?”
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Every team has that one issue that everyone avoids
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All you have to do in any situation like this is reply, “but will it scale?”
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11111111: "Hey, are you feeling okay?" 11111011: "I'm feeling a bit off."
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your domain name is a 10 but you actually have to build the project
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This is mind-blowing. With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe the layout you want, and it writes the code for you! W H A T
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“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the world that holds him.” - Will Durant
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🎵 on-call is a ball 🎶
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Hello if you have been sending me cheese since December, please DM me because there's no note, I love cheese, but this is a LOT of cheese, and the cheese company won't tell me who it is from
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"Heavy are the shoulders who get the opportunity to maintain others' drive-by features"
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Shout out to those who aren’t used to working from home and find it misérable
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Every piece of code you write will be old "bad" code one day, just think of it as leaving a legacy
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I wonder what it's like to live in a world where you think blocking doesn't make sense
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I haven't coded since last year hurr durr
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When I've been working on the same weird bug for hours
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If you're hiring entry-level developers (without professional coding exp), please respond to this thread with the job posting/your contact information, and in what locations you're willing to hire (city, remote, US-remote, EU-remote, etc)! If you're not, please RT for reach!
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Pro tip: Adding harmony and autotune to embarrassing stories make them easier to tell
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*chef's kiss*
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Roses are red, Violets are blue, Unexpected token ',' on line 32
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My 55-year-old father-in-law has been trying to get a junior coding job for over 2 years and seeing him constantly get rejected for younger candidates at the last interview round is ageism in tech at its finest 😞
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What does ageism in tech look like?
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The information I need is always a tab away
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well well well, it's Tuesday night, shall I spend time with a medium screen, sit in front of a large screen, or pretend I'm going to do something other than stare at a small screen
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If you take longer than a couple weeks to get back to a candidate after the interview, your hiring process is broken.
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*updates resume.docx*
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I haven't coded since last decade hurr durr
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I got some advice (from a man) to ask for obscene amounts of money when I'm on the fence deciding if an event/opportunity/etc is worth my time and effort, and WOW it has changed the game.
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Super excited to finally talk about this, thanks @netflix !
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Incredibly fun game: pretend to be chickens and make the other person laugh before you do
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Adding a feature to a legacy codebase
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Adding a feature to a legacy codebase
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Funny how it’s always the anonymous ones that have so much to say 🤔
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Nobody ever uses functions anyway
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the unbelievable high of getting your 2FA code submitted the second before it expires
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I'm [], and you're []. You and I are not the same.
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why trust autosave when you can hit Ctrl/Cmd + S five times after every change
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I’ve been having so much fun with the man filter
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so young and full of hope
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Microsoft's Typescript is SO impressive. You should take a look. http://t.co/KUMkeQVR
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“And thus, a new VC fund was born!”
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Hello! If you (or someone you know) are hiring junior developers (0-1 years of experience), please respond here! So many folks are struggling to get gigs right now and it would be super helpful to see the job listings. Also, please RT for reach!
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The things you think now will probably be old school someday 🧠
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React 17 is out! So many thoughts 💕
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One time a company offered me an interview for a sales job even though I applied for engineering because I "speak far too well to be an engineer" I pushed back and they wouldn't let me try for a dev role, and whenever I'd see them at events later, they'd say "it's the sales girl"
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Pro tip: Play music in your meetings, on occasion a good jam will start and the whole team will dance along 💚
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GitHub Copilot really wants me to be cute here
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I guess it’s time to get back to work
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