🥁 Drumroll, please… meet the Minnedemo41 presenters: 📚 Carl Wills, Course Counter 🎨 Abby Allen, GlueStick ⚠️ Joe Lencioni, Happo 📦 Hillary Drake, Liminal Network 📍 Hank Brekke, Skyway.run 🌀 Shalanah Dawson, Spiral Betty 🌎 Katelyn Mucha, Laura Gaucher & Rachel Thompson, Taxon Profiles/Species360

🚨 It’s time: Minnedemo41 tickets are LIVE! Join us on Oct 9 at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts for Minnesota’s biggest tech show-and-tell. Tickets go fast, snag yours before they're gone: events.humanitix.com/minnedemo41?...

Updated biking to the fair guide just dropped, and it’s a good one!

Pleased to announce the first test of the Little Minnesota bike/run route. In 23 miles, it creates the outline of Minnesota, and is longer than either the Little Wisconsin or Little Illinois in Milwaukee and Chicago respectively.

Libraries are the best! I had some old MRIs and X-rays on CDs/DVDs with no way to open them. Library to the rescue!

Mark your calendars: Minnedemo41 is October 9, 2025! 🏢 Venue reveal: July 24 📥 Applications due: August 17 🎟️ Tickets drop: September 4 Expect live tech demos, big energy, and one unforgettable night with the MN tech community. Save the date — you won’t want to miss it. 👇 Links in thread

if any of my locals are looking for a job my workplace is hiring for a supervisor for our delivery team. We do all our in-city deliveries by bicycle, and I'd love it if our new delivery supervisor was a bike person. If you're a bike person / have a bike person network please share!

You won't believe which establishment received an F- from @twincities.toiletpaper.reviews‬. Actually, you'll probably believe it.

Read part two of my series on the railway where the Midtown Greenway is! This piece documents some of the changes to the corridor leading to today and signs of the railway and industrial past.

#minnebar19 yesterday was so much fun. I had a blast, and am feeling both exhausted and energized…which is how it always goes. I already can’t wait for the 20th anniversary next year!

This is extra fascinating after learning about traffic signal technology at #minnebar19 yesterday!

I am basking in the the afterglow of #minnebar19. I mourn the sessions that I missed and cherish the conversations that I had.

Minnebar is kicking off!!! 2,000 registrants. 167 sessions. A chock full Best Buy HQ campus. The tech is hot. Coffee is flowing. And our Minneapolis community is on 🔥! Come hear from The Cave Project on “Deepfakes 101” at 11:25 am in the Harriet Conference Room. #minnebar19 #minnebar

“Community is not something to invest in [only] when you need something from the community.” #Minnebar board exhorting companies to sponsor #Minnestar even if they’re aren’t running a recruiting drive right now. “Fund us or FOMO!”

Good morning Minnebar! Please say hi if you see me or my dad today. He flew in from Seattle to lead a session on the Atari 2600! #minnebar

#Minnebar is packed! The Twin Cities technical community is alive and well.

🎉 The Minnebar19 schedule is LIVE! Take a look at the lineup of 160+ community-led sessions and star the ones you’re most excited about! Your votes help us make room for everyone... knowing floor-sitting and hallway-spilling are part of the Minnebar magic. ✨ 🗓️ Check it out: sessions.minnestar.org

PSA: Biking on Hennepin Ave by Loring Park is extra dangerous at the moment. There are 3-4 inch ruts hiding in plain sight. I took a spill riding straight into one of these this morning.

Just a few clicks and YOU can help shape the #Minnebar19 schedule. We’ve got a record number of sessions this year — now we need your votes to bring the day to life! Let’s build it together: sessions.minnestar.org

One of the few times the Strib gets it right: www.startribune.com/harmful-cuts...

I was imagining this meme while biking past a mile of backed up cars with @ianrbuck.bsky.social on Marshall Avenue in Saint Paul earlier this week, and he made it real!

The Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade is back at #Minnebar on May 3! Got a game to showcase? Apply here by April 17: forms.gle/TXjQ4D2rHxUN... Thanks to our friends at @igda.org Twin Cities + @nicegamesalliance.bsky.social for making it possible! We can’t wait to see (and play!) everyone's games.

PSA: This spring/summer is going to be extra challenging for anyone biking in the Twin Cities

Minnebar session submissions are live! Time to start thinking about and submitting your talks!

Software is when I wear sweatpants and a sweatshirt.

I coach on Minnesota's professional women's and non-binary Ultimate Frisbee team, the Minnesota Strike. Every year we raise money through sales of limited-run jerseys-- if you'd like a special Coach Genghis jersey (and wanna support the team), pick one up here teams.breakmark.com/group/psp202...

Anybody taken the Amtrak from Minneapolis to Chicago? How far in advance do we need to get to Union Station? Which seats are best? Is business class worth the upgrade? Any other tips?

I played my first singles tennis match in months last night and I t was really fun! I lost in two sets, but it was close and we were evenly matched. Now I want to play more singles!

[slaps roof of Minnesota] this bad boy can fit so many trans people in it

Spent the last few days skiing at Whistler with friends. This place is incredible!

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

This sounds fascinating!

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is quietly eliminating the at-grade boulevard options (A and B) from the Rethinking I-94 project. This move, rushed before the holidays, deprives communities of a chance to explore a transformative alternative to the highway trench. 🧵(1/9)

Minneapolis has declared a snow emergency, where the city only plows the streets it loves.

I love the first big snowfall of the year. the quiet streets, the glimmering white snow reflecting in the moonlight, the knowledge of which neighbors are selfish assholes and/or absentee landlords. there is so much beauty in the world if you have eyes to see.

Hey #MNTech! Did you know @minnestar.org is on Bluesky?!? Go give them a follow and while you’re at it maybe a small $5 gift toward the end of year match 💙 minnestar.org/support-us/b...

Now is a *great* time to donate to Minnestar if you regularly attend & benefit from their events!

Love that, but chapati wrap leads to chapati nap

Best value lunch in the Mpls skyway: Afro Deli.

Keep St. Paul Boaring #kspb

We *SO* appreciate you, Jenna. You’re amazing! 💕

Minneapolis, Supply Depot needs shoes & socks

It’s like five questions. No nonsense.

For those in the web dev space, we have another in-person JavaScriptMN meetup on this Wednesday, December 4th! meetu.ps/e/NFhNz/tG1Y...

This is especially fascinating because I *just* started using Cursor for personal coding projects and am loving it so far. Great post, @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com! newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ide-that-s...

As an EM, I’m really choosy about how/when I pick up coding tasks. I like to (I’m a learn-by-doing type and it keeps me familiar with my teams’ codebases/workflows) but I’ve had to set key boundaries to find balance over the years ⬇️

A buddy built a "Good Coffee" finder app for the Twin Cities, and it's awesome. Free, and available on both iOS & Android: www.mplscoffee.com

I started a new side project today. Bought a domain, created a repo, spun up a new NextJS app, etc. Feels good, man.

My latest blog post covers how a simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in? angiejones.tech/the-betterme...

There are a lot of new folks here (hi!), sharing that I made a CSS Grid Generator tool that might be useful to you if you're making a site. https://buff.ly/3c8XSzI Enjoy!