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...

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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 👻

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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”

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. 😅

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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!