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I really just want to touch grass. 🏳️‍🌈 y’all means all. wears many hats, literally and figuratively at developer-focused startups. sometimes I write code. Tu lucha es mi lucha. all my own opinions. 👩‍💻 Product @netlify.com 📍Austin, TX 🌐 https://taylorbar.net
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don’t give Texas any ideas! there’s a reason I haven’t used any of these apps in years. even the ones that claim lots of process protections.

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ignoring Graza as an olive oil brand (it's not the worst choice if you can get it on sale), heating up the "drizzle" line is diabolical. literally not even recommended by the brand. they have "sizzle" for this exact purpose.

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I realized something recently, which is that we're building AI tools completely backwards. While I was aware that there's some de-skilling happening already, I finally clicked a bunch of pieces together and decided to write this to talk about how we can do *better* hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-bu...

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I love baseball

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this has been fun to hack around on as a sample project for some of the other things I'm working on. I'll eventually share a URL.

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honestly one of my favorite things about my primary care doctor is she repeats a few times over how healthy I am (despite what a BMI scale might say)

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This is a funny story because of how it establishes that all around the world, even the most nihilistic ultra-rich freaks are realizing this shit is stupid, wasteful, and unnecessary and Trump is like "the big plane has a couch in it, it's the highest premium leather," www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

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Lots of concern about measuring the impact of AI. I have a general question which is do we know how to measure the impact of ANY TOOL AT ALL that your team uses 😂

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I'm willing to help folks pro bono move from Substack to Buttondown (used them for years). cal.com/jackyalcine/... to schedule time (starting in March)

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I feel like the starting scene from the Andor S2 finale was made for all the left groups fighting with each other right now

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Rob Manfred making Pete Rose eligible for the Hall of Fame because Donald Trump whined about it in a tweet is a fucking nightmare, man.

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it’s been 18 months since I’ve written a performance review for myself… and I have forgotten how much I struggle with doing them 😭 at my last job, I wrote two performance reviews for myself and both times it never even got reviewed with me. so its basically been four years since a proper review. 😱

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my spouse yells "HOLY SHIT" across the house and then when I ask him what is going on, he just keeps looking in disbelief while I am like "WHAT IS WRONG?!" Mavs getting are #1 draft pick. spouse is full on Charlie conspiracy theory boarding over here.

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library of congress really holding up that they are the library OF CONGRESS

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👋 I'm giving a virtual talk next Thursday

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it’s 59F at my house right now and it will be 100F+ tomorrow this is not normal 😭 hopefully my tomatoes don’t go sterile

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happy mother's day from texas (sorry I am a doomer, but this is our reality here)

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"friction has become a class experience" from @kyla.bsky.social kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...

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this storm was no joke, probably two to three inches of rain in 30 min with a bunch of marble sized hail

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I’ve used some form of the 🌶️ emoji this week more often than normal and I don’t know if that’s a good thing

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it's almost like developers have influence over purchasing and are important

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New from me @atxfreepress.bsky.social: Local advocates for equality are fighting back as the rights of LGBTQIA+ Texans are under attack again at the Texas Legislature – including bills up for a key House vote today. Democrats and queer allies will do their best to stem the bleeding:

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

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who knew a catholic pope could bring so many people together??? while also making me thinking more deeply about my lapsed catholicism for the first time in like 17 years.

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Deleted scene from "Conclave" Stanely Tucci: "Let's pick one that'll piss off JD Vance." Ralph Fiennes: "Fuck yeah"

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The new Netlify Cache API is a great addition to the best-in-class caching primitives available on @netlify.com. Let me tell you what it is, what it's for, and how it embodies our vision of a framework-agnostic platform built on (and for) the open web. 🧵

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I have bad news for engineers who don't like to write from @harper.lol's talk on LLM codegen workflow

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