It's been a whirlwind year, including that @github.com put me back on fixing papercuts/"tiny wins" for OSS maintainers! In 5 months a team of just 2 engs plus me and another proper PM shipped 15 things, so I made a little app to celebrate 12 of them 💖 helen.github.io/12-days-of-t...

If you know me you probably won’t be surprised to find out I am involved with the first thing in here… (so you should watch it!)

One problem with not posting anymore is now that I’m finally speaking at a conf again I don’t know who all I’m gonna see! So… who do I get to hang out with at @allthingsopen.bsky.social 👀 @bryanl.dev @angiejones.tech @jason.energy @bizza.pizza maybeeeee???

I’m 40 today and proud of making it this far! I live a beautiful life surrounded by beautiful people who love me in the same weird way I love them too 🥰

Looking forward to speaking at #AllThingsOpen with @helen.blog on “Continuous AI for Accessibility: Build Better, Faster, Inclusive Software with GitHub” 🚀 If you’re working on #Accessibility, #OpenSource, or inclusive #AI come say hi after our session 👋 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/con...

Had to wait a couple minutes to get into an airport lounge and the man behind me went on and on about “being treated like second class citizens with Priority Pass” and is now asking his companion if she preferred this line or the one at the Vatican ?????????

Have I mentioned recently that my team is really, really cool?

In honor of / inspired by #WCUS, I wrote my first personal blog post in 4 years :) helen.blog/2025/08/acce...

Imagining some Waymo trust and safety person randomly watching me say “was it the whip appeal or my baby face” to myself on the way home from the Clipse show

“You know mom, when I think about it this way, we kinda all live on big islands” — my 12yo

Who knew that when I was dubbed Chief Emoji Officer of GitHub 5 weeks into working here that I’d eventually become the one true CEO

The first thing I want to attempt to return to Being Online with is: we went to the Bad Bunny residency in PR and it was beautiful and perfect and a gorgeous celebration of culture and I met my goal of sticking to Spanish a little too well because everybody went right into 90% speed puertorriqueño 😵‍💫

I think I'm ready to capital-P Post again. Maybe. Let's find out!

Oh hey I'm back on my work BS aka trying to do a little bit of good for a lot of people :)

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If you have to ask what vibe coding is you don’t know how to vibe, sorry I don’t make the rules

A man interrupted me working on a plane with earbuds in to ask if I was scared (????????) and I got so mad at him he actually apologized to me, in case you were wondering if I’ve still got it

We gotta bring back brazy as a term with extra emphasis for brazen

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

The masses can’t tell what’s shitposting or what’s content farming to begin with and now there’s AI in the mix, we’re cooked

Nihilist mode where I don't know how to exist in a world that doesn't consider risk reduction worth doing anymore

Guess whatttttt I'm hiring engineers for my team (accessibility engineering) and one of my immediate peers is also hiring for Primer, our design system! We are looking for earlier-in-career folks as Software Engineer IIs, to best complement and round out our teams. githubinc.jibeapply.com/jobs/3987

When Cardi said “I blow 50 racks in Target on some stupid shit”… I felt that

Bing bong wake up babe new Sidetalk clip I can’t stop thinking about just dropped

Most of the time I don’t worry about being middle aged but I just flinched at a comment asking “song name?” on a video using Last Resort so maybe I am old after all ☹️

Me, an industry professional, and my little bsky full of Tasky thirst posts.

You ever wake up convinced everybody finds you annoying and nobody wants to tell you haha no not me never

The single greatest group energy I've ever experienced was when Redman made a surprise appearance at a Wu-Tang show in Bryant Park for Da Rockwilder, I mention this because right now I am basically feeling exactly the opposite energy and that is bad!!

This Trader Joe’s Cinnamon Bun pancake mix man…

We haven't done this before, but this year we saved some of the hackable badges for the shop! There aren't many available, but if you want to have some fun hacking on cool hardware, here you go!

Get yourself a work buddy who gets physical stickers made of your company’s fave Slack emoji and mails them to you

People who talk at length on the phone while in public restrooms: why?

“Do you rap or do you tweet cuz I can’t tell, get in the booth” >>>>> “walk the talk”

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

I got a pair of those carbon fiber plate Vaporflys on clearance and did sprints at 14.3mph/23kmph today, that was… maybe not fun but validating!

Shout out to the man at Target who stopped me to say he has a crush on me and must text me and responded “I can be a side thing!” after being informed I’m married with kids, kinda respect the boldness

It is time for another shoe purchase confession (the swoosh is iridescent how could I not)

We put way too much faith in those steel plates over road repairs

Pepperoni, hot sausage, and shrimp pizza fresh out of the Ooni

Getting into the post-Halloween sale candy stash and got 3 Starbursts instead of the usual 2 in the first pack, telling myself this is a good luck sign

This election should be about as competitive as I would be in a marathon with Ruth Chepngetich but instead we’re all losing

I still stand by my previous post from a year and a half ago but okay let's try this again, hello

It’s really easy to tell when somebody’s never had more than one Black friend at best, anyway punch all white supremacists (metaphorically but also literally)

I no longer know what anybody is talking about online it’s so beautiful

Fucked up when men have nicer legs than me

Just took a bite of something with marinara sauce that I am pretty sure had fermented a little somehow because it was *~sparkling~* on my tongue, 0/10 do not recommend

I guess shoe confessions belong over here now: yes I had to buy the holographic Barbie pink pumps

I feel like I need to personally apologize to @pfrazee.com each time I open my notifications tab right now because I muted hellthread and it looks like it has to make a buttload of paginated requests to then filter through to actually show me anything

Adam Levine really walked into a tattoo shop and said “I’ll take one of everything”

The real mom life is making dumplings from grinding the meat to rolling the wrappers 😴