Happy 8th birthday to my fluffy haired baby 🎂

Made a playlist of cartoony getaway music so you don’t have to It’s 11 min long and I think that’s plenty of time to get away open.spotify.com/playlist/1tv...

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I love genuinely curious people Give them one sentence about absolutely anything and they want a deep dive lol. They immediately have a million questions, anecdotes, analogies, ideas etc We end up changing subjects over and over and after like 3 hrs you’re like: now how did we get on this topic?

My kid was the spookiest 👻

I gotchu bsky.app/profile/did:...

Refreshing @cassidoo.co’s profile all day until a scary dev Halloween joke video appears 😭🎃

Had an amazing time with friends new and old at #GitHubUniverse @ashley.dev @mewtru.com @t3.gg @shaundai.com @pfrazee.com @chicagoeverywhere.bsky.social @misodope.bsky.social

Putting it on Bluesky. cc @jason.energy @pfrazee.com

GitHub Universe Day 0! (feat @mewtru.com 💕💕)

7yo: …and when I grow up I’m gonna make a baby machine so I don’t have to drive all the way and I - Me: wait a BABY machine? 7yo: yeah you just put a hair in & it makes your clone. But it’d be a baby. Me: ah. But, so you don’t have to drive all the way..where? 7yo: …to the hospital. Me: ah of course

Me: *forgets to extend my Duolingo streak for ONE day* That damn bird: YOU ARE EVERYTHING THATS WRONG WITH THIS GENERATION 😭😭😭

I could be living in 40-day-and-40-night-drought in the desert on the planet Venus but the MINUTE the delivery guy drops off an important package in non-waterproof packaging?? a MONSOON is gonna happen 😭 (but only in my neighborhood)

One of my favorite things since most of us started working from home is watching how your pets and kids could not care LESS not about how brilliant you are not about how tenured you are not how important this meeting is Beneath the labels, we are all just someone’s snack fetcher 🤝

Me: *thinks a thought* Amazon: *shows me an ad for it*

My 7yo has (finally!) reached the tea-spilling era & I am LOVING it. The stories themselves are just normal, 2nd-grade stuff but I just loveee how excited he is to tell me about it Last night after I put him to bed he came back down with “oh! Mommy! I forgot to tell you what happened at recess!”

Okay is my response to this spam text believable? Or how would you tweak it? Gonna start keeping a couple of these as templates lol (My response is in the green)

Never once have I been in a dire situation or emergency, and thought to myself “let me get my phone and record this for IG”

When are we going to get better search in Finder on Mac? Or just change the name from “Finder” to like “Good Luck With This” and be done with it

I was feeling SO SO burnt out last week. I told a couple of ppl about it and asked a couple of others for help and like soooo many ppl have helped?? And now I have a very reasonable amount of work to do, and ppl are helping with THAT Anyway, I hope everyone finds a tribe supportive as mine ❤️

I loveeee horror movies but I wish more of them had well-thought-out endings You mean to tell me that a demon’s curse which has been terrorizing a town for 23 generations is simply ✨broken✨ when 2 teens learn to appreciate their parents??? ??????? Likeee so many ppl suffered for so long omg???

Already did everything on my to do list. Feeling super accomplished 🥳

If I ever send you a manic-level voice note or text out of nowhere telling you how great you are or how much you mean to me, I 100% just got done crashing out about something totally unrelated and I’m trying to restore balance (I meant everything I said though 💛)

Told my 7yo to stop calling me “bro” and he started calling me “unc” instead 😭

Standing room only at @marktechson.com 's talk at #CYC25 #CommitYourCode

Someone reminded me recently that during a time of destruction and hatred, my personal brand has always been about building..and love. 💛 “Shaundai” actually means “gift of love.” And life is too short for me to waste my gift I’m going to continue contributing to the world in the way I do best

Me: I’m here to win! 💪🏾 Them: this isn’t a competition..like at all Me: yeah I kinda see the world differently I guess

my favorite part of this clip is that, in a suitably British act of subtle shade, the editors chose to use the wide shot of @shaundai.com on the box that makes her look taller 💀

Finding yourself writing more docs than writing lines of code? You, my friend, may have a future in engineering leadership! ☝🏾

I have the pre-launch jitters. 😬 My third course launches in “early access” in a little over 24 hours from now. I feel very confident about the content, but even still, launches are so stressful. 😅

NEW: It's the most important ~~meal~~ app of the day: breakfast! The latest episode of Web Dev Challenge is streaming now, featuring @shaundai.com, Scott, Jane, David, @jamesqquick.bsky.social, and @brianmm.dev — sponsored by Hashbrown. Watch the full episode: codetv.link/wdc/s2e9

This is a brilliant idea! Considering the role of scheduler usually falls on moms (guilty here too). And routines are a PITA to put on a calendar, clogging up the view. Back when I ran TUAW, we loved to see stuff like this. Actual useful tech solutions! Remember those?

Im going to build an app for single mothers (married single mothers as well) to manage events and routines alone or along with whoever they have to support them I feel like there are sooo many features I could include; it’s hard to know where to begin!

1:1 with my VP Him: I set up this meeting expecting to talk you out of this idea, but you’ve somehow sold me. 😳 So, I’m gonna sell this to everyone else WITH you Me: hell ya 😏

In honour of turning 38 today, here are thirty-eight things! "THING\n".repeat(38)

In honor of my 4-year Netflixaversary today, here are four things! THING THING THING THING

Showed this picture to my son this morning 7yo: …does he…not know how to do the robot? Me: I’m sure he does, but we were just supposed to stand there 7yo: so…he just didn’t *want* to do the robot?

Some of us have RBF Others have..Resting Robot Face 🤖

good day today @mikeryan.dev @scottmoss.bsky.social @blove.dev @shaundai.com @jamesqquick.bsky.social @brianmm.dev @davidedaniel.bsky.social @codetv.dev

Sales Shaundai learning to code: I cannot wait to I get my first eng role and finally not have to spend my entire day in meetings 😫 Engineering Shaundai: Okay, can everyone see my screen? 😫

Anyway I hip-thrusted a barbell more than 20 lbs heavier than me during my workout this morning Better talk to me nice today, or I’ll turn around too fast and knock ya monitor and all ya lil LEGO figures off ya desk 😏

Posting consistently & responding on socials actually taps my social battery just as much as going to a conference does 🥹 Just know.. if I suddenly start taking longer to text back or reply on socials, it’s bc I posted ONCE and now I’m in the fetal position listening to lofi beats til I’m recharged

Shaundai Person ❌ Shaun D., AI Person ✅

Every single time I get a rare, quiet moment to myself, I use it to remember something embarrassing I did a long time ago

I have a bunch of Zsh terminal command aliases I wrote But I keep forgetting the aliases 😂 is there something you’re already using to manage your aliases? I’d like an index with a text search that I can use to find specific commands (eg “start playwright ui”) with having to scroll down a list

I’d kick React Router in the neck if it was in front of me right now

~True story~ Me: *fighting a routing/forwarding bug in my code* Me: *remembers AI exists* Me: ChatGPT, here's my code. It's super broken. I am sad. Pls help. Chat: Girl! You. Are. A. GENIUS! GREAT JOB!!!! 👏🏾 👏🏾 ✨ Me: ...... Chat: yeah, no notes babe. You're good 😉

I’m about the same. The world has been messy my entire life, but my life is pretty damn good and I want to celebrate that in public more.

I know this is a very annoying thing to say online bc everyone hates everything here BUT I really love SO much about my life My son is off-the-charts amazing My parents and siblings..also off-the-charts My job and colleagues..a dream My friends..GOATs. Every single one Everything else..I LOVE IT 🥰