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Principal Product Manager, Applied AI @acquia. Formerly @MongoDB @temporalio. @OReillyMedia author. Lesbionic Ace Mom. #AuDHD. Gendermeh. Gamer. Views my own.

[webchick @webchick]

A few friends in the #DevRel / #Community space have reached out lately (it's tough out there right now :\), and there have been some common themes. A blog post turned into an ebook-length chunk of thing 😂 so here's Part 0: The Setup:
https://t.co/R3XAfHgb5K

[webchick @webchick]

@NeosLions @NTFabiano I was going to raise a similar point. Is this actually a "disorder," or is our world just annoyingly calibrated to morning people?

[webchick @webchick]

@tweetmonster999 .@temporalio is hiring a number of #DevRel roles atm, including Senior Manager, Enterprise Developer Advocacy and Senior Developer Advocate, Developer Education https://t.co/fq126Nl0RQ

[webchick @webchick]

@nostalgiacore Source: https://t.co/JDzxl9S55z

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https://t.co/E07cDTco83

[Witch @witchwounds]

why are the runes always ancient anyone make any new runes recently

[Kayvon Beykpour @kayvz]

This is a love letter to @temporalio. Not because of the product (which powers a big chunk of @Macroscope's infrastructure and we love), but because of a tiny purple tardigrade.

A few months ago I spoke at Temporal’s Replay conference in SF. Afterwards, I grabbed a swag bag on the way out. Inside was a plush tardigrade. I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know what a tardigrade even was before this. Though it was mythical? Wtf does it even have to do with Temporal. I still don’t know.

That plush somehow became my almost-2-year-old son’s most prized possession. He carries it everywhere. Sleeps with it. Calls it “tar-da-grade,” which is remarkable considering that’s about 25% of his vocabulary.

A few months later, disaster struck. One of our dogs chewed the tardigrade to pieces. Our son was devastated.

“Where’s tardigrade?”

“He’s… at the doctor.”

I tried superglue surgery before realizing maybe glue fumes and toddler bedtime weren’t an ideal combination. I searched everywhere online but couldn’t find another one.

So Sunday night I sent a slightly ridiculous message to our Temporal AE, Zac Bischoff, asking if there was any chance he could help a desperate dad.

The next day, not one but TWO replacement tardigrades showed up at my office. Durable execution ftw.

Thank you Zac, and thank you Temporal. You made a 2yo happy (albeit somewhat oblivious) and a father even happier.

[webchick @webchick]

@kayvz @temporalio @Macroscope AW I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! Thank you so much for sharing! 😍

You can read more about the "why" behind our mascot in the blog post about sending Ziggy into space. 😎 https://t.co/SaMtOWeGBb

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026

[MIT School of Engineering @MITEngineering]

MIT engineers have developed “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of the failing liver. This would help patients who are on a waitlist for a liver transplant or those who aren’t healthy enough to tolerate surgery.

https://t.co/B6odCTawl0

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026

[Ian Weissman, DO @DrIanWeissman]

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
https://t.co/13GBL8ujOV

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat to Peter Magyar after "painful" election result, ending 16 years in power. https://t.co/y35vYF2Wf1

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026 (hey, it’s bleak out there rn, doing my best.)

[BC Government News @BCGovNews]

When we turn the clocks ahead on March 8, it will be the last time change ever for BC. We're changing to a permanent daylight saving time, simply called Pacific Time (PT).

Learn more: https://t.co/ED0BCM14Io

[webchick @webchick]

Oh ok, so this actually happened today (well, “weird unexplained health crap” and the “identifying ‘the vitamin’” part, we shall see on the rest)

Hey kids, get your iron and b12 levels tested! 😅

[webchick @webchick]

@rebane2001 @zelimir__ This was a fantastic read! Thanks so much for catching us all up on what CSS is capable of these days.

[webchick @webchick]

@summeryue0 @petergyang Soooo many people in here suggesting alternative instructions when you clearly lay out that the problem was email volume -> compaction -> DESTROYING the instructions, not the instructions themselves lol… sigh, the internet is exhausting. 😫

Thank you for sharing your story. 🙏

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026

[nana @naneinstein_]

I won’t shut up about this, pancreatic cancer kills a person in 4 months btw, it’s resistant to radiotherapy, and fucks two essential parts of the metabolism. this could change the world

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026

[Goodfire @GoodfireAI]

We've identified a novel class of biomarkers for Alzheimer's detection - using interpretability - with @PrimaMente.

How we did it, and how interpretability can power scientific discovery in the age of digital biology: (1/6)

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: ICE officials are reportedly worried that, if Congress requires ICE agents to unmask and wear identification, 75% of the agents will quit rather than be ostracised for the rest of their lives by family, friends, employers, and society.

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Exclusive: Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, sources tell Nick Miroff. https://t.co/JqmLqCFMiy

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026

[Emmanuel Pernot-Leplay @PernotLeplay]

🚨🇫🇷France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio.

The data is hosted on @outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers.

The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

See more here https://t.co/0uNmaoYdkA by @LelloucheNico

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026 (even if from an unlikely source 😉)

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Today, I call on the heads of ICE, CBP, and USCIS to testify before the Homeland Security Committee.

[webchick @webchick]

#hope2026

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

I don’t think MAGA really understands how much people hate them.

It’s -20 degrees in Minneapolis right now.