We’re like the sphynx cat of primates

Sometimes* I be cussin at my laptop *every day

What does your name mean? Do you feel like you live up to that name? When I was a kid I read a book called “Emily Eyefinger.” That was the main char’s birth name, & she was born with an eye on the end of her finger. My last name is Person and I am a person. But also Shaundai means Gift of Love.

OMG I hadn't recognized her before. Aliya used to be the program director for the Code for Progress non-profit in D.C. I had met her briefly at one of the Women Who Code DC events. It's awful what ICE did to her. I'll repeat Abolish ICE!

I guess a random fact about me is that my natural laugh sounds like Ernie’s (Sesame Street) But one day when I was little, I was visiting my Gramma in Harlem and she was tickling me and I couldn’t stop laughing and she made fun of the laugh So I worked hard on it but now I laugh like Black Santa

Watching your kid grow doesn’t really happen gradually (as you’d think) One day they have this insatiable hunger and the next morning none of their clothes fit OVERNIGHT! It’s so quick that they’re clumsy for the following weeks until their brains have the chance to catch up to the new dimensions

Hey Claude, you are a vibe coder using Claude. Write a prompt that yoi can use to give to Claude to make a very successful app. Think hard.

Hey y'all. Propel is hiring some engineers this year. If you like Vue (or aren't afraid to learn) and you want to help improve the lives of low-income Americans, check the roles out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propel If you have a question, ask in a reply so everyone benefits.

In the US, a credit score is used to determine creditworthiness (how likely you are to pay off a loan) But in the US, your credit score goes down if you pay off a loan. It also goes down if a lender asks what your credit score is. “Why?” Don’t ask that. The answer is always “because, f*ck you.”

Fine print (re: my last post) - the “I’m going crazy” opener is ✨drama✨ I’m genuinely really happy. I love chaos, I thrive under pressure, I love having a lot of things to do, and I love my work. But I know that the next step in my growth, (1/2)

I’m going crazy. If you’re a technical lead, how do you manage writing docs, being in meetings, staying on top of communication, writing code, and alll of that context-switching? PS - please don’t say “coffee”, okay? people are suffering here and all you wanna do is make jokes. you make me sick 😂

Every once in a while I think about how I was born before the internet was publicly available I still remember those stupid email chain letters and how they had me in a chokehold thinking that if I didn’t forward them to 14 people in 1 hr I’d never meet my soulmate 😕 I have lived SO MUCH LIFE

My version of rest doesn’t look like just sitting around doing nothing. It never has. I feel rested and restored when I’m building things, creating, and tinkering And in 2026 I’m continuing to embrace that. This is my version of a “soft life”

Bought 6 pears so I could have a lil baked pear with honey for dessert instead of the cookies we baked After 2 hrs of eerie quiet, I came upstairs to: 🍪 0 cookies 🍐 0 pears 👦🏾 1 child saying “Mommy it’s Thurs and that means it’s movie night (aka pizza and popcorn for dinner)!” Diet starts Monday!

ITS THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR AND THERES SOME TAX OR HEALTH BENEFIT THING YOUVE FORGOTTEN TO FILE PLEASE HURRY AND FIGURE IT OUT BEFORE 11PM EST

Who was I to believe that my brain would show up in work-mode today, the last day before Christmas vacation?

After a couple of back-to-back fails as a mom/big sister/friend/auntie, I was feeling v bad about myself & was starting to do That Thing where I start to tell myself I suck (instead of saying “the things I did suck, but they were only mistakes & I’m still a great person”) So a few days ago… (1/2)

I told this to folks at work today and nobody cared. Then I remembered where I work 😂😂

One of my favorite milestones as a developer was realizing I could make ✨anything✨ I wanna Today I’m programming a Samsung TV (via a raspberry pi) bc I wanted to make an app that would help me stay on task instead of my ADHD getting the best of me lol

Now accepting any and all questions about the Animaniacs, Bugs Bunny, and that singing frog about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

Me: I’m going to bring you over your grandparents’ house for 2 hrs. Grab some toys or some things to do while you’re there My 8yo:

I merely NOTICE that I have an empty-ish calendar, THINK to myself “wow, plenty of time to be productive”, and instantly 40 emergencies completely unrelated to the one productive thing I wanted to do magically appear 🪄 You can call me Davida Copperfield 🐇🎩

Fun fact: at Netflix, our internal design system/component library is called Hawkins and the docs all use Stranger Things character names in the examples

Started using honey as the sweetener in my coffee (with a couple of drops of vanilla extract) and omggg this is delicious

I don’t know howwww people are vibe coding without knowing how to _actually_ code My workflow has been: Claude helps me a little Claude regresses I help Claude Claude tells me I was right all along I close Claude I do the rest myself

ADHD is going downstairs to get a trash bag, coming back upstairs 45 min later with a pair of scissors and a USB-C cable, realizing you forgot the trash bag, going back downstairs, making yourself a cup of coffee while looking up apple pie recipes on your phone, and never going back upstairs

Tonight (a normal Wed) my 8yo fought back tears as he was getting ready for bed I turned him toward me and asked what was wrong. He said “I had so much fun with you today and don’t want it to end 😭” (his face turned into that exact emoji) Being so loved by the person you love the most is just- 🥹

Whew if there’s one thing the Angular team is good for, it’s creating a buzz around the new releases. These events are always so creative and well put-together! Looking forward to this one 🔥

Confirming that @danielroe.dev is just as great of a person IRL as he is online. Maybe more!

My brain holds onto the most random memories and forgets so many of the most important ones Anyway happy birthday to the kid I had a crush on in 3rd grade and have never seen again

Okay folks, it's time: I'm hiring! Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:

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...

Looking for an amazing tech writer to join my org and write for Cash App. 100% remote. Spread the word! block.xyz/careers/jobs...

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 👻

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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”