Alla Hoffman 🦹🏻‍♀️

Programmer, traveler, writer, and general wonk. Proud citizen of @CityOfYs

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Recently had my flash fiction published @OrionsBeau, in their fall issue about transformation and the power of love: https://t.co/YVr74IzMKq

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I've been a very absent twitter-human, but I had a piece published recently!

[Rejection Letters @rejectionlit]

"Thank you for your interest in filling the position of Baby...Due to economic headwinds, we have decided to alter the job description for this particular opening to Fur Baby, and will be promoting an internal candidate to the new role."
-@AllaHoffman
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I had a couple of pieces of flash fiction published today! 🎃 🖤 cheers to love, the spookiest feeling of all.

Volume 5, Issue No. 5 https://t.co/5lFbFzKIun via @coffin_bell

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Strange Loop 2023 (Sep 21-22) will be the last edition of Strange Loop! We hope you can join us for one last conference. Early bird tickets are available now. https://t.co/0stAUi1rcQ

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Deeply sad to know next year’s #strangeloop will be the last, but grateful it existed 🖤 I’ve depended on the SL community to reignite my enthusiasm & curiosity for this profession year after year.

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Questions K Hollenbach’s art is considering #strangeloop

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‘Why are we all still working in terminals on supercomputers that pretend to be this?’ #strangeloop Amazing drag of the cargo cult aspects of programming from J Rusher 🤩

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“Deploying code is terrible - let’s make local development terrible as well!” Oh nooooooo true 😂 J Rusher @ #strangeloop

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Each square on this Spotify recommendation page comes from a different ML system - J Baer #strangeloop

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Q: Your team was suspiciously happy & productive for a long time. How did you run the business?

A: Only paid the devs more than the artist for a couple months before moving to paying equally for the same amt of work.

Maybe my favorite part of Romero’s keynote❤️ #strangeloop

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Wish this principle from John Romero’s Id Software were more pervasive throughout the industry 😅 #strangeloop

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@dave_yarwood That’s awesome! The very first thing I tried to make as a baby programmer was a text-to-sheet-music web app. It was…not a good beginner project 😂

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“Dynamic mediums are a tyranny of formalisms” Kaliski just articulated really well why I find trying to make art - or even just diagrams - on the computer so frustrating. “You’re focusing on the technicalities of the tool rather than the problem at hand.” #strangeloop

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Amazing talk, one of the most pragmatic & thoughtful I’ve seen on the #strangeloop social justice track

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New things (read: financial crimes) are still being discovered in the Panama papers that were leaked to the press in 2016; journalists hadn’t had access to this volume of data before, and had to learn to handle it fast.

C Buschek at #strangeloop

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Really interesting points here, makes me think of this PhilosophyTube video on how the technology we use changes & affects us: Transhumanism | Philosophy Tube https://t.co/ZYG1hc7kut #strangeloop