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Thea (Stargirl) Flowers ✨ Creative technologist, synth crafter ✨ @wntrblm ✨ @oshwassociation president ✨ PSF Fellow ✨ She/her
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Google shutting down something as simple as a URL shortener is fucking wild. The cost of having one engineer keep it alive can't be as bad as the continued loss of user trust.
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ADHD is like having a superpower with an absurd limitation. Like telekinesis that only works on rice.
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God fucking damn it Biden 50% on semiconductors you're breaking my balls out here.
I just imposed a series of tariffs on goods made in China:
25% on steel and aluminum,
50% on semiconductors,
100% on EVs,
And 50% on solar panels.
China is determined to dominate these industries.
I'm determined to ensure America leads the world in them.
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My gender-neutral greeting go-tos:
* y'all.
* folks.
* friends.
* enemies.
* cryptids.
* witches, warlocks, and all children of the night.
* skeletons and their owners.
* lovers, haters, and procrastinators.
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Here's my brilliant idea: Animated NFTs. We'll call them "grifts". It's pronounced "jrift".
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I won't be using GitHub's Co-pilot. I'm perfectly capable of writing shitty code all on my own.
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I'm so fucking tired of AI. This shit is just boring now. I don't want to talk to a fucking chat bot. I don't want to see what nonsense you made from stolen art. I don't want regurgitated code. Y'all are making mcnuggets and selling it as duck confit. Fuck off.
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What the fuck am I gonna do with 64GB of memory? Three Chrome tabs?
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I'm looking for a switch like this, but one that is absolutely, comically massive. Just enormous. An absolute fuckin' unit of a switch.
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I got tired of not understanding what my GCC linker file was doing. I went on a quest to understand every. single. command. Why each symbol was included.
I present to you: the most thoroughly commented linker script in the world (probably)
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Hot take: You almost certainly don't need:
* Kubernetes
* gRPC
* Whatever the hell a service mesh is
* BigTable/Spanner/other pricy dbs
* Serverless
Having access to these things is great, but y'all forgot that 99% of webshit can be done with a handful of servers and a SQL db.
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Here's my pay as a staff engineer @ google:
Base: $185k
Bonus: $40k
Equity: complicated, but roughly $60k/year
Last year's taxable income: $360k
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I love Python to death, but goodness if I had a magic wand that could make sweeping changes to it, I would. A lot of Python's behavior and quirks are due to it being 30 years old. A whole lot of things have changed since.
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For those of you telling me I make too much:
👀 I've got over a decade of experience.
👀 I'm in a very high cost of living area.
👀 I'm one of the top women in my role.
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KiCanvas is an open source, interactive, browser-based viewer for KiCAD schematics and boards- and now it's in 🎉 public alpha 🎉
Head over to my blog to learn more and try it out for yourself 🧚♀️
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This is the biggest fucking roast. I'm crying. it's hysterical.
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This is amazing
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This is why developer relations (esp technical writers) are astronomically valuable.
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Here's a
@kicad_pcb
tip: if you select items by dragging left to right, only items completely within the box are selected. However, if you drag from right to left, everything that *touches* the box is selected.
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It's hilarious to me how much human effort has gone into making browsers faster only for ads to quickly slurp up that extra headroom.
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Okay, so we've got Objective-C, but what would Subjective-C look like?
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I don't know what web3 will be built with, but web4 will be built with sticks and stones.
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Yeah, me. It's a fucking waste of time and resources.
Is there anyone left who hasn't installed any AI extensions in their code editor?
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LRT: Bro if you email me tell me I'm not a real engineer I'm going to put your ass on blast while laughing at the fact that sending that email required you to use software that I wrote.
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It's been a rough year for me.
But, today I get to celebrate that with no education and only 10 years in the industry I've accomplished being promoted to a Staff Engineer at Google.
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Alright, look, we've got good open-source 3d printers. Can y'all take a step back and make some good open-source 2d printers now?
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I will no longer be accepting any comments about open source hardware and whether or not it's cool for a multimillion dollar corporation to exploit it.
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Hey, you!
Do you know how easy it is to rename your GitHub default branch from master to main?
I'll show you!
1⃣ Go to your repo and give that "Branches" link a click
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I spent an hour trying to get my Raspberry Pi Zero to connect to my wifi only to realize
I bought the one without wifi.
God damn it
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Here it is: my deep dive into the design of the Roland Juno digitally-controlled oscillators. It features detailed schematics and interactive animations. ✨
Please like, retweet, share, etc if you like it! 💜
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Don't even talk to me if you don't have the GameCube mechanical keyboard.
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I can't imagine what sort of drug induced fever dream led to this impressively absurd way of making assertions.
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Okay! 👏
I want to spend the new few months focusing on building an interactive, open source, browser-based KiCAD file viewer.
I'm looking for sponsorship to make that happen, and I'd love if you'd consider it:
Sharing always appreciated 💜
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I can just name one: my code is on FUCKING MARS
Positive vibes. Name two things that you’ve done that would have impressed your 13 year old self. I acted in a play in a foreign language and I went to China.
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Is "come over and check out my laser cutter" a valid flirting technique for a lesbian? Asking for a friend.
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Basecamp's founders forgot that you have to at least pretend to care about social issues to get your employees to continue to morally compromise themselves for your gain.
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I love Notion but damn I wish I could find an open source, self-hosted alternative that could do notes + tables/databases the way notion does.
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I'm tired of Python newsletters that are just filled with men.
Reply to this tweet if you're an awesome person who isn't a man who does Python or reply with the handle of someone you know that fits that description.
Retweet to spread the word.
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I just looked and my first order from
@adafruit
was on 7/1/2016. In four years I've taught myself electronics and started a business selling my designs, and I mostly didn't pick up steam until 2ish years ago.
If you're afraid of getting started - you can do this.
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I was supposed to do actual work today, but instead I organized my assorted lengths of wire.
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Okay - if you're into hobbyist / independent electronics and related "maker" stuff and you're interested in helping build a forum with inclusion, kindness, and friendliness as core values let's get in touch.
RTs super appreciated.
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I'm muting this, tired of dudes in my mentions mansplaining how google and url shorteners work.
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Me: I wonder how to read from a gamepad in Python without PyGame / SDL.
2.5 hours later:
Software is bullshit I'm throwing my computer away
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Python: Chaotic good
Java: Lawful evil
JavaScript: Chaotic evil
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Holy shit. Winterbloom has finally *made* money!
Since last march I've invested $41k into Winterbloom - that's everything from professional services, to parts, to manufacturing costs, to shipping, etc.
We've made back $45k, so I'm swimming in 4,000 freedom bucks!
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Here's a tip: print your board layouts on paper before ordering. This is especially useful when working with unfamiliar components because you can verify the footprint, but it's also use just to get a sense of scale and spacing.
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I Am One Again Asking You To Assume All Women Are Highly Technical And Capable of Breathing Fire.
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😏
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📰 I'm leaving Google after over six years.
You can read slightly more words about it here 👇
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I am determined to have the absolute prettiest schematics.
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Today's hyperfocus brought to you by the Beacon "eddy current surface scanner", a 3d printer bed probe that quickly scans the surface instead of slowly poking it.
If you look at the photo below, you'll notice they blurred out the ICs.
This annoyed me.
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Y'know, since the company named "Discord" is out here building communities, it only makes sense for the company named "Unity" to obliterate their community.
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First thing I would magic away? Our complicated packaging story. Begone, virtualenv, pip, etc. Packaging in built into the core. Installing a package installs it just for the current project. Publishing a package just "publish".
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I'm all for domestic manufacturing (seriously we do everything as close to our doorstep as possible
@wntrblm
), but there's just no sources here for so many things that small hardware makers depend on. These tariffs only hurt small businesses.
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Someone from high school looked me up and confirms that I've been On Brand™️ for over a decade. 😂
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@remilytaylor
@alicegoldfuss
I barely graduated high school. Google pays me to teach others. I'm super
#unqualifiedfortech
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I'm feeling sad today so I wrote my own logging library.
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I had to mute my thread about Python. There's only so many condescending and nauseating replies I can take.
Like it's incredible how many dudes read that and somehow concluded that I hadn't thought to make even the most obvious contributions to the ecosystem.
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This belt tensioner design is either brilliant or stupid and i think that's exactly what I strive for as an engineer.
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Someone posted my article on hackernews and there's several comments saying that I'm not a real woman.
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For winter solstice I painstakingly restored and modified a Model M keyboard for my girlfriend. Complete with custom firmware and RGB LEDs.
I very clearly love this girl.
(Maybe a blog post about it coming soon)
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It's so cute. Look at its little feet go.
Norsonic Nor277 tapping machine for generating footstep sounds for building sound transmission testing.
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Today I started work on building the UI for the schematic viewer. Thankfully my work on the board viewer UI laid a nice foundation of web components to build with and most of this went pretty smoothly. Lots more to do but this is a great start. 😌
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This shit in Texas is so fucked. We're all fucked. Democrats have control of both houses and the presidency and they've done jack shit. It's hard to have any hope of keeping conservatives from retaking power during the next two elections and oh boy is that going to be awful.
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This video is fantastic, and the best part is Freya's means of teaching through exploration- the way she iterates towards a possible solution, shows different ways of thinking of the problem, and how perspective can reveal related work.
"Lerp Smoothing is broken" is now live!! 🎉
❱❱
as a special thanks - patreon supporters also get access to the slides I made for this talk 💞
❱❱
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One of the funniest things to me is Chromium's C++ style guide whose list of banned features is longer than the entire specification of some languages.
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I'm a woman. 😐
You’re in a technical interview. Your task is to fail it as quickly as possible. How do you do it?
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Reading about the Covid vaccine and holy shit 🤯. They bioengineered RNA to get our own cells to make the Covid spike protein so the immune system will learn to find and destroy Covid-infected cells.
They *wrote* RNA to make our body generate a new protein. Holy shit.
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I hate tweeting about salary. It's this stupid double-edge sword: on one hand, salary transparency helps us all - especially underrepresented folks. On the other hand, I always get comments about how I make so much money and shouldn't complain.
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I have fired
The employees
That were running
The site
And which
You probably
Needed
To operate
Forgive me
They were softcore
So beta
And so disloyal
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New article: Using Python to vectorize artwork for PCBs
Learn how clever libraries can be used together to create artwork for
@kicad_pcb
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Before you start overthinking interviews, please remember that google did a study and found that interview scores had no correlation with performance.
And they still do them the exact same way.
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