At the risk of stating the obvious: A competent software engineer can pick up a new framework rapidly - when familiar w the language - and learn to use a new programming language quickly. If you hire for framework or language knowledge, you are missing out on a lot of people.

I still can't help but laugh when men try to introduce me to other women in tech based solely on us being the same gender. Like imagine, if every time I met a man in tech I mentioned "I know a man in tech- I think you'd get along great!!" 🤣

Software engineering, a haiku: fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fu-oh hey it works wait, no - fuck fuck fuck

She's a ten but she's actually two fives stacked in a trench coat

I met an unhoused woman who has two years of disability payments sitting in a bank account she cannot access because she does not have an ID. After months we finally got her birth certificate and then she woke up to a sweep where all of her paperwork was thrown away.

Khaby Lame unseats random white girl with rich parents as top TikTok star with 142.8M fans (see I can do it too)

My thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

If you’re against abortion, don’t get one. If you’re against contraception, don’t take any. If you’re against same-sex relationships, don’t have one. If you’re against same-sex marriage, don’t marry someone of same gender. Do not impose your beliefs & religion on all Americans.

erm.. ooops! 😳😳

The most important lesson I've learned in the last year: Burnout isn't just the result of too much work. It's the TYPE of work. And, more specifically, your emotional connection to it. Burnout comes from feeling like no matter how much you do, it will never be enough.

debugging strategy: write a message asking for help

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

Why do we see such psychological resistance to removing non-actionable alerts? We see it over and over again.

If Fe = Iron, then does Female = Iron man?

multi-comic monday

Something LFI got me started on today because “severity” always gets me salty and shouty: Setting severity at the very beginning of the incident is often based purely on vibes, no matter how much we want to pretend it isn’t. And that might be the best case severity scenario.

Unpopular opinion: If you think the industry is overstaffed, you are not carrying the pager enough. The industry is disproportionately staffed.

My 2023 advice for all young engineers: Respect a running system. There are reasons it works that way, most of which will be uncovered when you try to replace it. Make incremental changes, don't burn the building down. No one way doors. Never be unable to rollback.