🏜 Eric Jakobsen

Not here. Find me on BlueSky. Or even better, IRL.

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

#whathelpedtoday is meant to serve as a repository for things that have been helpful and made my days better. It is a list I (and anyone else) can go to when struggling to find things that might help. Feel free to add your own to the list by using the hashtag #whathelpedtoday

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

see y'all next year!

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Well I guess the news is out

I won’t be hosting Wheel of Fortune

or playing Lois Lane

or hosting Wheel of Fortune as Lois Lane

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action

Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed

The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

[melissa averinos @melissaaverinos]

I made a fun thing!
🤓 API: a simplified example (with cats)
🦄One of the benefits of being an artist in tech is that you can draw your own diagrams to help understand and encode information/concepts.
🐈‍⬛AND YOU CAN INCLUDE CATS

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

@katiehom Definitely! I have run into that too but I was not prepared for spanakopita levels 🤣

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

the amount of spinach in a spanakopita is truly astounding

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

i am so close to BINGO now

"oceanic animals rise up" is my center square

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

Daily reminder for me + everyone: Being a human can be challenging/confusing, even in the best of times. This ongoing "unprecedented" era amps that up by a bazillion. We are all doing our best. I am impressed by so many of y'all each day. Give yourself and others some grace.

[John McBride @johncodes]

Pro tip: want to preserve some of your laptop stickers? Use a sheet of wax paper after you take them off and they’ll peel right off like new 👏

[🏜 Eric Jakobsen @gentlegiantdev]

@AlexRobinett @leonnoel Congrats Alex!!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Wow: Google IS killing Google Domains; selling it to Squarespace.

This is 10 million domains sold. Millions of customers like me learn again (and again!) that you cannot trust Google to keep their own products alive.

Show me another vendor that throws away customers like this…