Bea🐝 Jones

UI engineer @ LinkedIn // Vassar alum // just trying to pass the Turing test // she/her // my views are my own and may not represent those of my employer!

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

Today marks the end of my first week as a full time UI Engineer at @LinkedIn ! Even virtually, I’m amazed at this wonderful community of new hires. So excited to work with these (and many more) wonderful people 💙 #LinkedInLife

[Jesslyn 🇮🇩 @jtannady]

ME (sits like this): Huh, why does my back hurt?

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

Was looking up the precise definitions of some HTTP error codes in the @MozDevNet web docs when I got to the 418 response… TIL

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

@niharikajain_az It is excruciating

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

It’s yearly self-review season, and you know what that means!

I have of course forgotten every single thing I did over the course of the last year

[Command Line Magic @climagic]

"Documentation Examples" Venn diagram

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

Loved Lenora’s talk on learning at home! Amazing to hear her strategies and the personal side motivating her to learn 💪✨💻

[Yehuda Katz @wycats]

Instead of acting like the a11y community is nagging us to help a tiny minority of users, we should thank them for nailing down what a text input *means*, what a combo box *means*, what a button *means*.

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

obsessed with this

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

Today’s the main day of the virtual conference! Really enjoying the sessions so far ✨

[LinkedIn Engineering @LinkedInEng]

EmberConf is next week and we're excited to have some of our engineers presenting! The full schedule can be found here along with session descriptions: https://t.co/AjzxIwamTp

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

@codealatte Congratulations!!!

[Melanie Sumner @a11yMel]

Want to watch me talk about Continuous Accessibility? It's being live streamed in about 20 minutes at https://t.co/Aje6G72h00. <3 #a11y #webDevelopment #JavaScript #EmberJS

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

It was wonderful to hear @JanelleCShane speak as part of #EngWeek ! Loved the takeaway of being aware of what machine learning algorithms are actually learning - and that it may not be what the programmers thought it would be! 💻

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

I can’t be the first person to have done this but it’s the best way I can express how I’m feeling about this code change right now 😅

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

Welcome to JavaScript, the language where the objects are made up and the types don’t matter

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

copy operation turing machine

* is input
@ is output (this can be at any location, with arbitrary data in between it and the input)

c is a work area which is used as a placeholder. you can see it increment as it works through the data.

[Bea🐝 Jones @beatrixdjones]

I can’t believe there’s this constant debate of whether or not CSS is real programming. I’m watching a recorded meeting of someone from the CSS team explaining upcoming additions to our libraries and the amount of work it takes to wrangle class inheritance... I can only imagine