Founder @LearnToCodeLA, @recursecenter W2'19, @WomenWhoCode LA director, software engineer. Sharing everything I learn while I try to learn everything! 📚🥰
My @elmconf talk is online! See me acting silly on stage w/ my mini MIDI piano, sharing my misadventures in building a game for learning to read music (my first @elmlang app)!
Huge thanks to the organizers, and thanks @czaplic for saying you liked it 😆
https://t.co/AQqpwJOUZI
Last time I wore this shirt at a tech conference, everyone just smiled and laughed, this time I get questions after the laughter to clarify my stance. Do I mean it? A shift indicator.
Tech bros: hey writers! guess what? We've solved your biggest problem!
Writers: OMG that's so awesome! We're going to be paid a living wage?
Tech bros:
Writers: The deeply disfunctional publishing world is going to improve somehow?
Tech bros:
Writers: Health insurance!?
In 1937, the French mathematician Victor Thébault discovered that if you construct squares on the sides of any parallelogram, their centers form another square when connected
Ready to @DoNASAScience? @NASA’s citizen science projects can be done by anyone, anywhere, with a cellphone or a laptop! This #CitSciMonth, browse through more than 30+ projects & begin making your own scientific discoveries: https://t.co/QaW3SDfE0L
It's Autism Awareness Month, so over the next 30 days I'll be sharing lots of content to educate, spread awareness, and debunk some misperceptions about autism.
In this post, I'll attempt to explain why "everyone is a little bit autistic" is not accurate.
Here goes...
"When the final cockroach breathes her last breath, her dying act will be to scratch her date of death in a CSV file for posterity." 🪳
-- via docs for https://t.co/tbFK1V4sCx, a curated list of tools for working with CSV formatted data.
Bonus fun fact: CSV dates back to 1972!
Playing around with making Android apps again (but this time making my UI in @elmlang wrapped up in @capacitorjs !)
... and this is how complex the Android API has become just to decide which function to call to set an alarm on my phone. Ughhh.
(via https://t.co/Knbn0yEVZG)
So I have a pet snail now. 🐌 Their name is Devon, because I happened to be reading some articles by @drdevonprice the day I found this Cornu aspersum cutie. I hope that's taken as a compliment! 😆
Also, #TIL these lil mollusks can easily live more than a decade!
Oh, hi. I’m Shana (rhymes w today). I’m a producer w over 21 years of pro game dev exp. I’ve produced Resident Evils & Street Fighters, HoloLens & Outer Worlds. I’m the Manager of Third Party Production at Oculus. 👾 I’m GDC’ing alllll week.
Yeah, this is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike
What rhymes with paid off but isn't as fun?
Yep! Your second favorite magical girl got laid off this morning. It's sad, of course, but I'm going to lean into my resilient side and do my best. ✨ 💪🏾
If you know of opps in devrel, frontend, or accessibility, let's chat!
Underdog Devs is coming up on the next cohort for Project Underdog. @UnderdogDevs helps aspiring devs who are formerly incarcerated or from an economically disadvantaged background. If you're interested in participating, please apply! https://t.co/TsPfn9ursm
This weekend I gave a Lightening Talk @ Pasadena City College about What 2 Years of Failing at Programming Taught Me. Hope you can extract some value 🧠
https://t.co/PJIMw1AX4h
A big thank you to @LearningNerd@learnteachcode@shecodesio & PCC datascienceclub!
I have found the single best use of chatGPT ever, "In the tone of a professional British Academic, re-write the following email written by an American Academic:"
I am getting a FAR better replies to my emails and I'm upsetting way fewer people by complete accident.