Went to a concert today and I found myself masking aggressively, forcing space around myself, checking for the nearest exits and leaving pre encore. Covid and the recent halloween tragedy has really done a number on how I perceive crowded spaces

Not me bringing my whole laptop to the temple, answering pagerduty alerts surrounded by the judging eyes of aunties and deities alike

Racial issues in Singapore as explained by the confusion between Chinese and Indian security folk over the appam flour my family stashed in my carry on

Hell yeah!!! What a crew 🥰

Finally back home after weeks away and of course I get my first flat of the year 😫

Spent nearly every waking hour over the last few weeks with friends, family and coworkers and gosh how I've missed this

Tired: Salary transparency now. Wired: What's the split of duties in your household?

I've had this false assumption that platform was somehow harder than frontend/backend/fullstack/anything I'd ever worked on. Little did I know that the "difficulty" comes from the obscurity and disjointedness of pipelines and systems and not how hard the work actually is

I was today years old when I learnt that slack supports split view and I'm a changed woman with this knowledge

Hard to believe that it's already been a year! The growth I've made over the last year has been absolutely mental, I hardly recognize myself

Nothing quite like googling individual css rules and painstakingly bloating markup bc tailwind

Most times, I have no idea what I'm doing. At others, I help a friend's mum through a gnarly networking issue and am restored in my confidence that I know my way around computers.

So much grief in 2023 💔

Damn, life does come at you fast huh?

The smartest thing I've done in weeks is draft up paperwork and mindlessly debate bureaucrats

Today in chronicles of div deploys (and quickly reverts) on a friday evening, I hooked in a db write from an alert in kibana blissfully unaware that I'd been spamming prod for the last 30 mins ⚰️

After a 3 year hiatus, I finally did a conference talk again. It feels so surreal, so much has changed, but so much is still the same.

As if being a woman in tech isn't hard enough, we now have to prove that we're not being puppeteered by some dude bro...

ngl the more varied the systems and languages I work on, the deeper my existential crisis as an engineer

It was such a privilege to speak at Elixir Conf about my journey into metaprogramming, macros and plugs in Elixir! Link to slides and code for all interested parties: Slides: noti.st/shortdiv/k9LYP… Code: github.com/shortdiv/chuck… #ElixirConf2024