Going Postal by Terry Pratchett is a book about the tech industry. You will not convince me otherwise. (Highly recommend reading.)

Explaining to my Canadian wife that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursdays because Thanksgiving is the Thursday of holidays

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett is a book about the tech industry. You will not convince me otherwise. (Highly recommend reading.)

Join us for the 6th event in our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series, "Trans-inclusive tech governance," on Dec 2 at 11am EST, with the amazing @blairaf.com (Univ of Alberta) and @histoftech.bsky.social (@uvadatascience.bsky.social). Free & open to all: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender.... See u there

I was one of two Black women in the Ph.D. program. I will never forget my first semester of grad school, one of my profs went OFF on the class before the midterm about cheating, calling out a specific demographic for large-scale cheating and threatening the class if we knew and didn’t tell.

i’m laughing but honestly it’s sad how much the government is pushing this largely useless and materially harmful technology in the false hope it delivers productivity benefits. mark carney wants companies to adopt generative AI, but only 2% are seeing a return on investment. this cannot last.

I've been thinking about this all day, because so much of my career has been spent being not truly "one of us," and I'm only beginning to come to some kind of terms with how painful it has been.

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I missed the rush of working with a new product team. Glad to be doing that again. 😁

"Capitalism isn't skipping 1:1s, giving toxic feedback, or changing goals frameworks every quarter — fucking Mike is doing that." (Mike was a great boss though.)

Sunday, Nov 9, I'm taking the stage with @saeedwkhan.bsky.social at Product Soch in Mississauga to talk about B2B Product Management! It's going to be so much fun. (There's even shawarma!) www.linkedin.com/posts/produc...

Sunday, Nov 9, I'm taking the stage with @saeedwkhan.bsky.social at Product Soch in Mississauga to talk about B2B Product Management! It's going to be so much fun. (There's even shawarma!) www.linkedin.com/posts/produc...

Folks! I'm so looking forward to this Catharsis Dev Science Office Hour. Still some spots if you want to join us November 13th to do a hackathon-style mad dash of a study design! www.eventbrite.com/e/design-a-s...

What Ashley's understating is she ran a free community event where scientists tell stories in one of San Diego's hopping neighborhoods and they absolutely packed the house of a woman-led business (Bivouac Ciderworks!) and the entire thing was a delight Like 3x the people we expected showed up

World where curses are real so if you go down to the drugstore there's a witch on staff who once a year will cast a mild curse on you so that your body builds up its natural defenses against stronger curses

My 8yo told me she had a dream that she went "taco treating," which is where you go door to door and people give you tacos

Thinking is invisible labor. Collaboration is invisible labor

SOS CRISIS: EMERGENCY SURVIVAL FUND. Daily panic attacks are destroying me. I'm choosing between medication and food - life or death choices. Every day. Applying for roles from CX, admin, QA and customer service but getting destroyed by AI. Sharing means the world and everything counts. Cheers!

I’d love to have anti citations though. Like I don’t want paper analyzers to know that I cited something, I wanted them to know that I anti cited it. I called it out cause it was bad and it deserved to feel bad and I want it to not get cited going forward

tuned into some of the nunavut election broadcast and it was so cool to see how seamlessly they switched between english and (what i assume was) inuktitut. we should really be hearing more of the indigenous languages in canada.

the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now

for context: the second edition of "Observability Engineering" starts off swinging with an opinionated chapter called "The Fundamentals of Building Good Software". which begs the question... what IS ✨ good software ✨? i'll drop my answers 👇 but curious to hear others.

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

i ask myself this a lot vis-à-vis sense atlas and intertwingler, and i can say that both address otherwise (literally) un-addressable problems i encountered both as an FTE and as a consultant; as such my answer to 1) is it'll be wrong until it isn't and 2) is adjust until that happens…

oh fuck yes now we are cooking

when do we start using a term other than “social” media?

”The pain of being able to touch someone who is no longer there is unbearable. And when the second death comes, the death of body, there is almost a sense of relief, and along with that, of course, the shame of feeling it.“ buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Along with everything else that's wrong here, I'm SUPER upset this is going to be a lot of people's first exposure to Bukharian jomahs. Which are actually pretty fab when they're worn where it's appropriate, and have a cool, but possibly apocryphal, origin.

I’ve been training my whole life for this moment

Become a better teammate with one simple trick: ❌ don't bring your ego ✅ bring manchego

Are you an experienced software buyer? I could use your help. I'm working on the second edition of "Observability Engineering", and hoping to include the kind of advice an experienced principal engineer might give a staff engineer buying for the first time. charity.wtf/2025/09/19/a...

TIL wild oats evolved a special fiber that twists as it dries, allowing seeds to "walk" from where they've fallen until they hit a depression in the ground where they are more likely to grow.

You know what's the logical next step to charging an exorbitant entry visa for workers? A pricy exit visa for citizens.

Beige-brained thought leaders echoing "good cheap fast pick two" exhaust me. The formula is meant to be an upper bound, not a default. You should feel privileged to achieve ONE of the three. Most orgs get none.

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it is! i learned crochet and decided knitting was too much mental work for me (crochet can be super complicated too but it's less you have to hold in your head by far) this video is super thorough, she's also a scientist. lots of interesting stuff here.

We have dropped an 🥰 anniversary special 🥰 for Change, Technically A year of podcasting with @analog-ashley.bsky.social and @daniloc.xyz has been more lovely than I ever expected, full of learning. Never let them take your swagger 😎 www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

Thanks Apple I didn’t need to see my todo list anyway

September 24th! A research workshop that will fix everything for you. (or at least give you something else to think about for 3 hours) www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-do-de...

The grackles have taken over the trees in my backyard.

I've been told a couple of times in tech to not use the term "empathy" because some groups dislike it which is hilarious because that's asking me to....have empathy.....

I got three vaccinations in one sitting late Friday afternoon -- pneumonia, flu, and COVID-19. I felt very flu-ish yesterday, and still a little bit today. I've been amusing myself picturing the scene in my Immune System Command Center on Friday evening... 1/9

I think my cope is just going to be adding more and more paint to this chicken, forever. It's not going to get better, just more.

Getting there