Danielle Leong @tsunamino Twitter profile

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

4 years

Listen, we need to acknowledge that spite-driven career development is a real and valid thing

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3 years

Ahhhhhhhh I did it!! I'm a Director of Engineering now! 🥰

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@tsunamino

5 years

Always design software with abusive exes in mind

Jessica Lord

@jllord

5 years

😡 Four weeks ago I discovered I am still shared on a Google Drive folder of photos my abusive ex controls and is actively putting photos into. At the same time I learned there is **no way to remove your own access from a folder you have been given view-only access to**.

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Danielle Leong

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4 years

Old boss said you couldn’t do something? Get that paper. Broseph stole your ideas and got promoted? Become an expert and start your own company. Someone doubted you? Make it impossible for them to ignore how great you are.

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4 years

Be as petty as you want on the inside if that’s what motivates you. Become an expert. Get paid. Dance on the graves of the defining bullshit conversations you’ve had in the past. Help uplift others who have also been told they weren’t good enough.

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3 years

Omg our 2020 holiday cards are here and they are PERFECT

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

4 years

Would it be great if motivation was pure and sweet because you were inspired by some Pinterest quote? Sure! Do I go to work sometimes with a fire in my belly cuz some idiot told me I wasn’t technically an engineer? Absolutely.

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

6 years

It’s almost like traditionally feminine traits are actually predictors of success and we should hire for them and listen to those who have told us this 🤔

Laurie Voss

@seldo

6 years

Two rounds of deep analysis of employee performance data at Google show that the top predictors of success are being a good communicator in a team where you feel emotionally safe:

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4 years

I guarantee you, every URM has some Arya Stark-style list of people who told them they aren’t good enough and they will burn this place to the ground to prove it

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4 years

This isn’t spite because you think you deserve a thing just because everyone else has it. It’s a direct reaction to being told you’re not good enough by people who didn’t bother to recognize that you were already crushing it

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@tsunamino

6 years

Yesterday on BART I heard one Asian lady engineer give negotiation advice to her friend that was so egregiously wrong, I almost committed a SF atrocity and talked to them But my stop was next so, in true SF fashion, here’s a tweet thread /1

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4 years

bUt iTS nOt gOoD fOR yOU tO bE sO nEgATiVE Listen. This is spite in the face of adversity. When someone says that you don’t have what it takes when you 1000% do. It’s a power up to the motivation I already had to do the thing I was already doing

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Danielle Leong

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2 years

So there is an error on the @Instacart app on a recipe for a feta, olive, and tomato salad recipe where if you click “add items to cart” it adds 16 containers of feta instead of 16oz of feta

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2 years

My husband just called me his “friend with tax benefits” and I’m so mad I didn’t think of it first

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@tsunamino

3 years

The best thing I heard today was someone saying a project’s status was watermelon-colored: green on the outside, red on the inside 🍉

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2 years

When I left my job, I thought I’d be out for a month, tops. “I wouldn’t know what to do with myself,” is what I told people. It’s been 3 months and I’ve finally started recovering from burnout and enjoying life again. Don’t underestimate how much rest you actually need!

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4 years

Someone asked me today how I, a female manager, prevent myself from becoming a therapist/caretaker to my team and wow am I excited to write this blog post on boundaries

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2 years

If you’re in the Bay Area and someone brings up that it’s raining, you MUST reply, “but we need it” in order to end the conversation loop

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2 years

This weekend was my grandma’s 100th (!) birthday party and when I asked what the covid testing plan was, I heard crickets back. So I went to Walgreens and got everyone an at home test

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6 years

Because guess who is asking for more? White men. And if they can ask for more money then so can you Channel that inner, overly confident white male and ask for what *he* thinks he deserves. Or ask a white male friend for what he would ask for /8

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

2 years

Disagree. PRs are useful async collaboration tools, good for encapsulating a feature into a single referenceable point, and provides context for people outside the individual writing the code. In short, it helps your org scale. This sync “trust” model only works for small teams

Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social

@allenholub

2 years

You need PRs when: • You don’t trust the code • You don't trust the person writing the code • You don’t trust the process used to write the code • You don’t trust the system used to check in the code Maybe we should dump the PRs and work on that trust thing instead?

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

5 years

I failed 50 interviews before getting my current job. I was almost broke. Technical interviews are horribly demoralizing

David Zhou

@dz

5 years

people don't talk about failing at job interviews often enough so here's one of mine: the year was 2009, and i was looking to move away from front end work to more backend/fullstack work, and i was on the phone with a guy from mozilla

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2 years

@itsnashflynn It was nice knowing you

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@tsunamino

2 years

I’m begging you all to just wash your whole body. With soap. Please.

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@tsunamino

2 years

Twitter has turned into Chidi from The Good Place: morally paralyzed and making everyone miserable

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

6 years

This weekend on staycation, I decided to have a little fun with the @FourSeasons concierge and asked for a framed photo of @TaikaWaititi . They delivered. Bless the staff for having a wonderful sense of humor and making my day 😂

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Danielle Leong

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6 years

So please negotiate. Do it for your brosona. Do it for your family. Do it for the rest of us WOC Because I guarantee you the white dudes are doing it, so why not get what you deserve? /fin

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3 years

I just gave a Security 101 for Seniors presentation to my mom and 10 of her best girl friends and they had such a great time learning! They’re in their 70s and get bombarded with messages about how everything is hacked and they wanted to be better informed about where to start

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Danielle Leong

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6 years

Also as a hiring manager I can tell you that you aren’t wasting my money by interviewing. That’s just completely false Asian women in particular, I feel, are worried about being a “burden” on others. You aren’t! I want you here! I am investing in you & you deserve to be here /10

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

4 years

America is the Florida of the world

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

6 years

I find this mentality in a lot of other Asian folk, women especially, that if we work hard enough, we will eventually get rewarded. NO. THIS DOES NOT WORK. THERE IS A BAMBOO GLASS CEILING FOR A FREAKING REASON /5

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

3 years

We are live!

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

5 years

The upsetting thing about this is Jessica has been dealing with this for A MONTH and Google Support says it’s a bug but also working as intended Your software shouldn’t work to enable people to harass others!

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6 years

Friends. Ladies. Folx. For the love of god, DO NOT DO THIS /4

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6 years

Lastly, compounded raises ARE REAL. Raised are PERCENTAGE based on your starting salary If you don’t negotiate, no matter how much you get after a year, it will still be less than what you could’ve gotten (and likely the dudes in your company already did get) /11

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@tsunamino

4 years

@JeffreyCook74 Spite gay is my favorite kind of gay

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

6 years

Having a “brosona” comes in handy at times like this because it makes it easier to ask for something you might be hesitant to ask for. What would @BROSEPHSPEAKS feel he deserves? Ask for that much /9

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@tsunamino

2 years

It’s raincoat szn

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

6 years

If you’re gonna ask for above the salary band, it probably wasn’t a good fit or our expectations are vastly out of alignment. But you should always ALWAYS ask for more. ALWAYS negotiate /7

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

6 years

My team asks, "How can this feature be used to hurt someone?" It's incredibly important that we don't just build features for the sake of disruption - we must build responsibly and making sure to think through abuse vectors and how real humans are impacted by tech

Riccardo Tommasini

@rictomm

6 years

#GitHubUniverse nothing more to say

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

3 years

Yesterday I had friends over for a seafood bbq and broke down a king salmon for grilling and sashimi and proceeded to forget to take a single additional photo after this

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@tsunamino

3 years

I was surprised to learn that @500px has open DMs by default after a spammer contacted me. I asked to turn it off and was told “maybe the site isn’t for you”. Another example of photo communities being unwelcome and dismissive to women and POC

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

5 years

This is a person who is actively being harassed by a flaw in your software. It’s your responsibility to fix it

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@tsunamino

6 years

As a hiring manager I can tell you this: there are salary bands. There’s an expected amount that I can pay you. You can always ask for things like wfh days, stock, or title bumps /6

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1 year

“Rolling layoffs” is a great way to tank morale. Truly disappointing to see

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

6 years

Are you an underrepresented minority or someone from a non-traditional background looking to get into tech? Come apply to for our apprenticeship program at @github and join my team to make the internet better!

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6 years

The first Asian woman seemed to be interviewing for her first engineering job and didn’t know how to negotiate. She wanted $10k more Her friend proceeded to talk her out of it because “they spend so much time and money to interview YOU there isn’t much left” /2

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Danielle Leong

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4 years

4 yrs ago I was unemployed and spent the last of my $ on coding bootcamp I got rejected 50x by companies and didnt know how I was going to make rent Then I did a literal elevator pitch to the manager of @GitHub ’s Community & Safety and nailed it Happy 4 yr hubberversary to me!

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Danielle Leong

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6 years

She then said it would be better if her friend DIDNT negotiate because she would have more leverage at her first review - 6 months or a year down the road - because of all the hard work she would have to show /3

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Danielle Leong

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3 years

@dionnewarwick Auntie Dionne I love that you are learning and broadening your horizons! (And also throwing shade, let’s be honest) In a time when so many people turn to hate, it’s so wonderful to see you explore new-to-you topics!

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Danielle Leong

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5 years

My talk on "How to grow emotionally intelligent engineering teams" from @ctosummit is now up!

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3 years

One nice thing about using a DLSR for a webcam is I can finally create a custom white balance profile for my skintone and not use the default that comes with most webcam software (which historically struggles with POC skin) Thread for advanced DSLR webcam settings for POCs!

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@tsunamino

5 years

TODAY YEARS OLD

DoItLookLikeIWasLeftOffBad&Boojie

@LipBitinANNAmal

5 years

How old were y’all when you found out the ridges on the bottom of the salt/pepper shakers had a purpose?

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6 years

@mspowahs Get out of my head

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

5 years

I’m thinking of putting together a blog post for my 1 year anniversary of becoming a manager and the things I’ve learned like how to measure success, finding support groups, running useful meetings, and learning to trust your team. Would anyone be interested in this?

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

2 years

👀 I'm looking to hire mid-senior engineers to come join me at a stealth startup tackling SaaS pricing insights! We're a WOC-founded and led company out of NYC and remote-first. RTs welcomed!

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

5 years

This blew up unexpectedly. Please believe women/nb/trans/POC when they say something is a problem. Making things safer for the most vulnerable people on your platform makes it better for everyone (eg better permissions systems = better enterprise software = more $$)

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

4 years

This is also known as the paradox of tolerance! Allowing bigots into a community will only create a toxic environment and people will leave

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@HoldenShearer

4 years

Here's an idea to carry into 2020: You cannot create or curate a community where everyone is welcome. It's an incoherent, fake goal. It sounds nice but it is categorically impossible. Some people, by their very presence, make a space unsafe and unwelcoming to others.

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2 years

After 6 years at GitHub, today is my last day! I’m forever grateful for all the amazing people I’ve had the pleasure to meet and work with over the years, and thankful for all the personal and career growth I’ve been able to have

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@tsunamino

2 years

So I’ve been having so much fun building, I forgot to announce that I started as VP of Engineering at a stealth startup!! Can’t wait to show you what we’re building soon 👀

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@tsunamino

2 years

Morale of the story: get yourself some champions of covid testing for events, preferably of different generations. It’s better to be safe than sorry and sometimes you need different tactics for different people

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@tsunamino

3 years

Accidental @heyjenbartel witchy vibe today 🔮 Lighting diagram up on #photography

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7 years

The sunset over SF is something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel.

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3 years

Managers, today’s a great day to check in on your Asian teammates who may be affected by the recent uptick in hate crimes and the knowledge that we will not be able to celebrate Lunar New Year with family

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

6 years

I’ve explained this to two white men tonight, which warrants a thread on the topic: Well-meaning white people, the inclusion of marginalized voices (LGBT, POC, etc) does NOT mean we are excluding you 1/?

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@tsunamino

6 years

I got my nails done by Cardi B’s nail tech and am living my most extra life ✨💅🏼✨

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@tsunamino

4 years

Fellow overachievers: how do you forgive yourself for not living up to your own high expectations 100% of the time? ...do I need to do sprint planning for my own life

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@tsunamino

3 years

Clean beauty is fear mongering marketing tactics made to get you to buy more products. Parabens prevent mold and infections!

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3 years

follow me on tik tok for actual science❤️ @makeupforwoc

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6 years

The three stages of going through the list of people you follow: - i follow way too many people - who is this person again? - wtf when the hell did you unfollow me i thought we were friends

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6 years

Today was a hard year

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@tsunamino

3 years

post a picture of yourself as the leader of an underground organization without downloading any new pics.

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@tsunamino

2 years

I greatly appreciate JavaScript tutorials that are like, listen we know you haven’t used this language since jquery was a thing, here’s what you’ve missed

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4 years

When you’ve had trauma and actively worked on it, you gain a lot of tools to help take a step back and analyze what is happening and what your brain is telling you could happen. You develop playbooks on how to respond to a crisis and how to leverage your support circles

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For people not panicking right now, why the fuck aren’t you? What supreme knowledge do you possess that others do not?

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5 years

@kimmythepooh I talk about trauma on the internet where my cousins might see it

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@tsunamino

2 years

Do you ever just look at a programming language and instantly hate it? It hasn't done anything wrong, it just IS wrong

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@tsunamino

3 years

Please congratulate Google Drive on joining this newfangled internet movement called basic blocking features

Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

5 years

Always design software with abusive exes in mind

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It costs absolutely nothing to let someone have a beautiful, authentic moment and to support them. Not everything has to be about you and your unresolved issues

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@tsunamino

5 years

It’s a lovely day in the village #untitledgoosegame

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4 years

Pink hair don’t care 💅🏼 Lighting diagram on insta:

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3 years

I have bad news about the rest of your life

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2 years

I have acquired a purse that has turned me into a walking version of my avatar and I regret nothing

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4 years

It concerns me that the bar for a good manager is “gives feedback” and “treats me like a human”

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@tsunamino

7 years

Design software as if a stalker ex is trying to kill you. Ask yourself: how would someone use my feature to hurt someone? Because it happens

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@tsunamino

5 years

Today @chronofnerdia and @katfukui helped me take the! best! new headshots! I'm really loving using color background paper. Definitely going to do more of these in the future!

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@tsunamino

3 years

Managers, now is a great time to check in on your folks, especially people of color, and cancel any meetings for the rest of today

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

4 years

Labor Day weekend is the anniversary of my last sexual assault. It’s been 7 years of PTSD and countless hours of therapy since then. But thanks to therapy, I’m thriving today! I still get panic attacks (had one last week - it’s still 2020 after all) but life’s pretty good now

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@tsunamino

6 years

Twenty min after I chopped off all my hair a drunk straight dude asked me if he could watch me with another woman so I guess I’m living dat authentic queer life now HAPPY PRIDE YALL

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

4 years

You want to hire and retain underrepresented folks? Don’t send them recruiting emails asking them to do your job for you to find “diversity candidates”

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@tsunamino

4 years

Hear me out: a Gmail filter that takes every marketing email starting with “in these unprecedented times” and hurls it straight into the sun

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

3 years

It’s hard to describe the rage I feel as a former Trust & Safety professional and seeing people finally paying attention to all the things we warned you would happen if it wasn’t cut off at the source

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@tsunamino

4 years

@i0sTaila This is some grade A negging bullshit

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

6 years

So I wasn’t going to tweet about this because I have some hang ups about not being seen as “technical” but fuck it I survived my first week as an engineering manager! Happy Friday!

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@tsunamino

2 years

THINGS YOU NEED TO DO AS AN ADULT (bare minimum edition): - Wash your whole body. With soap. - Wash your ass. Get a bidet. Or use baby wipes idk do something. - Use real deodorant. Someone is lying to you about that crystal!!! - Floss. Please! Your breath will thank you!

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@tsunamino

2 years

Look Mom, I’m on the @apple store homepage!!

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2 years

✨App of the Day! A huge thanks to @Apple for selecting us and to the incredible @tryglass community members.

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Hello from Times Square! My first art show in nyc set a pretty high bar!

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Danielle Leong

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5 years

Today is the 6 year anniversary of my last sexual assault. I’m incredibly proud of the growth and healing I’ve done over the years, and wouldn’t have been able to do it without the support of my friends and chosen family. Today I’m happy, confident, and whole 💖

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Danielle Leong

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4 months

New year, new gig! Delighted to share that today is my first day as VP of Eng at @FireHydrant ! 🥳

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2 years

Keep. It. Together. A new edit on an old favorite 💔

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@tsunamino

5 years

“Your Company’s Self-Review Process Is Broken” by @HareemMannan

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Danielle Leong

@tsunamino

5 years

The Community & Safety team at @github is hiring a senior software engineer! Come join us building tools to help build healthier, safer communities and protecting users from abuse!

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