Avanthika Meenakshi

Cats, coding and coffee ☕❤

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

“Can I bring my baby to the interview?”

The message came in at 11 PM:

“Hi, I have an interview with you tomorrow at 2 PM. My childcare fell through. Can I bring my 8-month-old? I understand if you need to reschedule.”

Old me would have rescheduled.
Unprofessional. Distraction. Red flag.

New me replied:
“Absolutely. See you tomorrow.”

She showed up with her baby on her hip.
She apologized three times before even sitting down.

Ten minutes in, the baby started crying.
She tried to soothe him while answering questions.
She apologized again.

I stopped the interview and said:

“Hey. You’re managing a fussy baby, answering complex questions, and staying calm under pressure. That’s literally the job. Handling chaos while staying professional. You’re already proving you can do it.”

Her eyes filled with tears.

We hired her.

She’s been with us for a year now.
The most reliable team member we have.

Why?

Because when you’re used to handling a screaming infant at 3 AM and still showing up to work the next day, workplace stress feels like nothing.

Working parents, especially mothers, are some of the most organized, efficient, and resilient people you’ll ever hire.

Yet we lose them because our hiring processes are built for people with zero caregiving responsibilities.

If your interview process can’t accommodate a parent facing a childcare issue, you’re not filtering for professionalism.

You’re filtering for privilege.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Not all tsunami waves begin with the sea receding from the shore.

Exactly 20 years ago, the Sumatra Tsunami - triggered by the 3rd most powerful earthquake ever recorded - claimed 227,898 lives, making it the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century

The direction in which the ocean floor moves during an earthquake - up or down - determines the behavior of the leading edge of a tsunami. If the seabed rises, the tsunami begins with a wave crest (water rushing inland). If the seabed sinks, the tsunami starts with a wave trough (water pulling away from shore).

In the 2004 Sumatra tsunami, a section of the seabed measuring approximately 1000 km by 100 km sank a few meters. To the west, an equally large strip of seabed rose. This movement created two distinct tsunami waves:

• The wave moving east, towards Thailand, was led by a trough, causing the sea to pull away before the wave struck.
• The wave moving west, towards Sri Lanka, India, and Africa, was led by a crest, with water surging inland first.

In the simulation below, the red areas represent water surfaces higher than normal, while the blue areas show where the water surface dropped.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Call a General Election -

Wouldn’t it be extraordinary if Parliament had to debate this?

Even if you are happy with the Labour government, it is worth signing it just to see whether this gets debated!

How bizarre would that be! https://t.co/Wad8cCNlHH

[Morgan Wright 💎 @byMorganWright]

Since my best friend is from the UK, I can state with 100% certainty that this is entirely accurate😂…

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

What is wrong with India?

Woman calls ambulance for his ill husband, she was then raped by the ambulance staff.

As her husband tries to prevent the crime, they threw him out of the ambulance, the injuries eventually killed him.

[Angela. @AngelaArts_]

george after accidentally revealing too much and deleting his blog post:

[May✗ @Mayham_H]

Showrunners: all the changes and decisions we made in HOTD were approved by GRRM!

GRRM today:

[Thrones Updates @ThronesUpdates]

When you get to see Daenerys again but then remember how Game of Thrones ends...

[May✗ @Mayham_H]

Daemon is so me whenever there's a minor inconvenience: #HouseOfTheDragon

[May✗ @Mayham_H]

House of the dragon season 2 being a comedy show: a thread—🧵
https://t.co/M55iezvy5a

[westerosies @westerosies]

#HouseOfTheDragon Episode 3 director Geeta Patel confirms that the three dragon eggs Rhaenyra gave to Rhaena are Daenerys’ dragons, Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion. 🐉

(via: @Forbes)

[Leon Ward @LeonjWard]

My mortgage went from £733.80 a month to £1349.08 in March. 🙃🙃 #BBCDebate

[Thrones Updates @ThronesUpdates]

Otto the entire episode

[Thrones Updates @ThronesUpdates]

RIP Ser Erryk. He was loyal until the end. #HouseOfTheDragon

[Thrones Updates @ThronesUpdates]

"What was it like seeing Winterfell and the Wall again?"

Me:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression & triples risk of suicide.

This is the clear scientific consensus, but very few people seem to know it.

[@cornwallcouncil @CornwallCouncil]

Road surface temperatures are forecast to drop below 1°C across Cornwall.

Our gritters will be treating the precautionary network from 1pm this afternoon and again at 4am tomorrow.

[Shaundai Person @shaundai]

If you wanted to learn to program video games as a hobby, where would you start?

Full disclaimer: this is for me, a front end engineer most familiar with React and TypeScript