I have nearly 28 years of parenting experience and that may sound impressive but that’s because you haven’t witnessed me negotiate bedtime with a five year old

Proud of this one

What’s a word or phrase you grew up saying that you didn’t realize was wrong until you were too old? Mine was “Chester drawers.” My Southern mom called it that my entire childhood, so I just accepted that Chester invented drawers. I was in my mid 20s before someone slowly said “chest of drawers.”

Hey, I’m so sorry I posted about work on here. 🥲

It’s fair to disagree. But “has never used these models” is an odd takeaway. I use them every day. The post wasn’t about replacing management with AI. It was about building systems around my own blind spots, which, as a neurodivergent person was something I was doing long before AI.

My job would be significantly easier if I could remember things. Since that doesn’t appear to be happening, I started automating them instead.

Spotify Wrapped is gonna be like “you listened to Timothée Chalamet’s Pure Imagination 2,384 times.” There needs to be an appeals process for parents.

Nothing activates my fight or flight response faster than opening a document and immediately seeing two people join to watch me type.

3D printing has fundamentally changed my relationship with impulse control.

The specific exhaustion of being perceived all day

If “it really whips the llama’s ass” means something to you, please schedule your colonoscopy.

Got the Oura Ring 5. The 4 was lasting a full week and the MOMENT they announced the 5 it started dying every 23 hours. Twenty-three. Not even a full day. My ring saw the press release and chose death. It's thinner and lighter though so congrats Oura, the psyop worked.

I must be going through something because I’ve been on an absolute comfort food tear lately. Also, I’ve reached the age where pizza is no longer a spontaneous decision. It’s an event. There is prep. There is planning. There is recovery. Anyway, I’m having pizza.

I have a recurring calendar reminder called “eat lunch.” This should tell you everything you need to know about how things are going.

Just crushed three bowls of Reese’s Puffs. I don’t remember eating the second one, so there may have been a brief dissociative episode. Elite cereal, though.

Having the best time hanging out with these dweebs at Microsoft Build this week! @ashley.dev @acolombiadev.bsky.social @martin.social #MSBuild

Heads up maintainers of packages, this is a big deal: github.com/orgs/communi...

I was talking to a friend today about how younger generations seem way less interested in technology than previous ones. She has teenagers, so I asked if she’d noticed the same thing. She stared at me for a second and said, “My kid microwaved glue last week.”

It's the beginning of spider season here in Seattle. I just saw a piece of fuzz on my shirt and almost burned my house down. Stay safe out there, my arachnophobic friends.

@monkchips.com I love this place so much! Great rec 👏

My sneaker game was fire today, but you'll never know cause I walked outside and it was raining, so I walked right back inside and changed my sneakers. 😭

I only printed 30 pairs of Kubernetes earrings so if you want some, come find me!

My cab driver: “What conference is it?” Me: “It’s a tech conference called KubeCon.” Him: [bursts out laughing] Me: 😅 Him: 🤣🤣🤣 Me: 🫠

My daughter wore a basketball jersey to gymnastics last Friday, came home absolutely jacked with confidence, and we have now had two separate arguments about the shirt she has to wear underneath it because we live in Seattle and it is cold. She does not accept this. The guns must be visible.

My husband sent me these on TikTok, and I was like, welp, I better go put on some pants because I'm gonna need one of each of those.

Dead quiet in the theater before previews. My 5-year-old whispers to herself: “We make movies better.” I ask what she means. She says: “That’s what they do here.” Took me a minute to realize she’d memorized the Nicole Kidman AMC monologue.

Bad Bunny really doing the thing!

My oldest is watching my 5yo for the first time while I’m in Japan for 2 weeks Anxiety brain said: Write 15 pages of instructions, build an AI chatbot, add push notifications for trash day This is normal behavior

10/10 ICE protest sign

did Big String Cheese change their formula? Because I swear it used to have more of a snap and now it’s just… sad and bendy?

New laser does 3D crystal engraving and I’m unreasonably excited about it. My husband’s already making fun of me like “you’re gonna have the coolest mall kiosk” but LOOK AT THIS TINY MONA tell me that’s not sick. I really need this distraction right now. 🥺

Does this feel like a tipping point to anyone else

I am a sucker for a good fidget✨

OMG, you can go live on here now?

I have these Husky desks in my garage. I have a row of four of them, each with two drawers. On one desk, I built this really beautiful Gridfinity system, but then I decided all the drawers needed to look this beautiful, and now I’m in hell. I’ve been printing for a week, but I have to finish it. 😫

Ever need to crush a pint, but your hands get too cold? 3D printing has solved that too.

My husband gave me a locket with a tiny watercolor of my mom, who passed away a few years ago, painted by his mom. I was in absolute shambles. 😭

Carol is getting on my nerves. Pick a laneeee! IYKYK

Behold, the end of year developer. An unflinching look at the survival period of "working" during the holidays. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps06...

"Airport prices were made by toddlers just learning numbers" - @ashley.dev

I love 3D printing so much! Look how cool this is!!

TL;DR Middle management is hard. Caring is required, but the kind of care you provide matters.

4 p.m. and it’s dark as hell. Every year I’m shocked like it’s my first winter here. How do people in the PNW just… live like this? I need to get out of here. 😅

Nailed it 👏👏👏

I hacked my conference badge and wrote an app to control the addressable LEDs from @ashley.dev's Github Light Quick 4:04 video → www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jPm...

I'm having a great time at GitHub Universe! @ashley.dev was so nice to invite me. I also accidentally tripped over a power cable that had "Azure" written on it, hope that's not a problem

Parenting update: my five-year-old’s art era is focused on ‘people waiting for the bathroom.’ The realism is stunning.

Last week my cleaners threw out a whole bottle of pills. This week, they arranged my leftover bacon in a wooden bowl.

How your meeting finds me

My 5-year-old is obsessed with The Simpsons right now, and I love that 3D printing lets me make things like this for her. Everything in this scene, the couch, TV, walls, came off my printer. The only non-printed parts are the figurines.