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Software developer, parent to two humans, and two dogs. Work at Shopify. Code, climbing, photography, making things, cooking things, and the great outdoors. Location: Toronto 🇨🇦
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Very annoyed that I’m working on a JS project and I can’t stop thinking about how much easier this would be in rails. My kingdom for typescript Active Record models.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I think it’s a good thing to hire junior programmers and help them learn on the job. I think it’s a bad thing to hire junior programmers and call them elite and giving them complete autonomy to dismantle the US government through sweeping changes they have no hope of even understanding.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

One person’s over engineered is another person’s beautiful and elegant API. Good morning, I’m over engineering something.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

We ran out of coffee so I just had a tea this morning and I’m still alive

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It turns out that using a language app for 3 weeks before a trip once every few years is a bad way to learn a language.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

3yo: I didn’t want my sausage cut up! You have to make me a new one. Me: makes a new one and puts it in front of her 3yo: thank you! Now cut it up.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Sitting here sketching ideas for an outdoor dining table while in the middle of the worst snow storm we’ve had in years 🫠

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Such al fresco!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Randomly opened this cookbook to this page earlier today and I’ve been unable to close it or think of anything else all day.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If it is fresh, it is bread. Once a loaf is greater than 8 hours old it is no longer bread, it is raw toast.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Thought I was in the clear, everyone was better yesterday, but it got me in the night 💀

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Holy shit. If you don’t know this history, listen to open.spotify.com/show/0sBh58h... the whole first season is relevant.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment