Unexpected side effect of Covid vaccination: radical sympathy for my infant, whose body is furiously producing antibodies for literally six different diseases at once after his 4-month immunizations.

English is the odd duck! And other adventures in translating beloved names:

Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

As a DeafBlind person, I feel torn about the trend of people describing their physical appearance during meetings for those who are blind/low vision. I appreciate the effort to make things more accessible and inclusive. Truly & deeply, but-- 1/

Are any VoiceOver users getting Snapchat to work, the interface seems a complete mess. Can’t even play audio notes.

My first days back at work after 6 months of maternity leave, and I’ve noticed: - rerunning project setup scripts SEEMS like a good time to pump milk, but surprisingly does no favors for oxytocin levels - ⬆️ is still the most useful keystroke in terminal

.Emi Matchu! 🌻✨ with the insights, again

This website selling burp cloths offers to sort by “Gender: Ascending” or “Gender: Descending” and I have questions

I‘ve rolled my eyes at lots of cheesy workplace harassment training videos, but this latest one got an actor to be realistically creepy and the hairs on the back of my neck are all standing up. Maybe this is more useful? But ugh I need a minute to calm back down

Oh, I know this one! Because power. If the sender has more power than the recipient, it can create expectations of quick responses and working at all hours. In that context, people with power (and those who are seen as representing power) should use delayed send.

Thank you, Friday-afternoon me, for graciously writing “// START HERE:” with breadcrumb links to source code + Slack discussions for Monday-morning me. Time-traveling teamwork at its best.

"It isn't Twitter, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's OK. We shan't meet you there." "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan. "Are—are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund. "I am," said Aslan. "But on Instagram I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name."

I’m solo parent tonight, so bought a tiny round cake to share. Me and the 5 year old each had 1/6 size slice, then the kid went to bed, and then I had another slice If he notices tomorrow there will be tears and tantrums but damn I’ll be proud of his intuitive sense of fractions

I am so excited to be heading to Colorado to keynote this conference!! “Coping with Other People’s Code” is a new talk I’ve workshopped in Seattle (thank you Seattle Xcoders) and can’t wait to present to a bevy of C++ engineers cppcon.org/2023-keynote-l…