Amisha

Engineer at @airbnb. Previously @wired/@condenast.

@mehulkar’s the No. 1 best.

[Amisha @_amishap]

Excited to share a new feature we’ve been building @airbnb is finally out!

Imagine you’re looking for a stay in Tahoe. The new experience intelligently pulls "fireplace", "hot tub", & other relevant amenities front & center, bringing that perfect winter cabin one click away 🔥❄️

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

You asked for these 2 filters. They’re live:

🛏️ King-size bed
🐶 Pet-friendly homes

[Amisha @_amishap]

Chilling testimony from an Uvalde parent:

"somewhere out there, there is a mom listening to our testimony thinking 'I can’t even imagine their pain', not knowing our reality will one day be hers.. unless we act now"

[Amisha @_amishap]

Voter guide of voter guides 🗳

[Mehul Kar @mehulkar]

San Francisco Voter Guide Comparison
https://t.co/ptksO6vL36

@growsf @SPUR_Urbanist @WeAreTogetherSF @sfchronicle @TakeActionSF @VoteandChangeSF @TheLeagueSF

[Amisha @_amishap]

@mehulkar Omg yay

[Amisha @_amishap]

@mehulkar @gaspargarcia_ I’m ready

[Amisha @_amishap]

Impressed by how attentive good managers can be. Recently I've had managers correctly pick up that something is wrong & ask if I'm okay in 1:1s

The first time was during morning sickness woes of first trimester, today was because of post-vacation blues. Some great intuitiveness

[Amisha @_amishap]

@mehulkar How’s the first day going?? 💩

[Amisha @_amishap]

Chilling testimony from an Uvalde parent:

"somewhere out there, there is a mom listening to our testimony thinking 'I can’t even imagine their pain', not knowing our reality will one day be hers.. unless we act now"

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Amerie Jo Garza's father, a med aide, says he found out she was one of the victims when he arrived on the scene and was helping another little girl covered in blood. She told him her best friend had been shot. When he asked her name, she said his daughter's. There aren't words.

[rae @liuraejin]

I wrote a blog post about how we shaved 50% off our JavaScript bundling time and made development feedback instantaneous with our scale. 🎉🎉🎉

https://t.co/SjTEtRk287

[Amisha @_amishap]

Here we go 🚀

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

We’ve got some really big changes coming May 11

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

Today, we’re announcing that Airbnb employees can live and work anywhere.

Our design for working at Airbnb has 5 key features:

[Amisha @_amishap]

Redemption

[Jeduan Cornejo @jeduan]

No diario el CEO felicita a tu equipo por lo que están construyendo. 🎉🔥

[Amisha @_amishap]

Understanding again why the % of women in senior engineering drops off so steeply.

The compounding effects of bias’ women in tech already face everyday becomes unsustainable as the team/project they lead grows, making it impossible to just do their job

[Amisha @_amishap]

Date night

[Mehul Kar @mehulkar]

Today “I” fixed a bug I’ve been mulling over, putting off, failing to fix for 3 weeks. It took:

- poring over comments, analyses, and bug reports written by other people
- pairing with @alexlafroscia for ~a day
- pairing with @_amishap for ~2 hrs and using her idea in the end

[Amisha @_amishap]

@mehulkar @alexlafroscia I take payment in ☕️ ☕️ ☕️

[Amisha @_amishap]

Building features with SDUIs:

😌 Expectations: one-liner schema change
 and it works!

😣 Reality: engineers scrambling to design platform-agnostic schemas to fit paradigms of UIViewController models and React hooks and ViewModel events and multi & single threaded languages and

[Amisha @_amishap]

Quintessential city-living experience of underestimating how much you’re buying, then struggling the whole walk home 🥵

[Amisha @_amishap]

Sorry NYC ☀️