@LauraLangdon@hachyderm.io
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LauraLangdon

@LauraLangdon@hachyderm.io

Full stack dabbler
🔸 #Docs and #DevRel
🔸 Team #Neurodivergence
🔸 #BlackLivesMatter
🔸 She/her
🔸 Optimizing all the things and raising The Goblins with https://hachyderm.io/@blangdon
🔸 Lifelong #SFBayArea but also a citizen of 🇨🇦

Profile photo: Me, a white woman with dark brown curly hair and green eyes wearing a gold necklace, and black cardigan

Banner: Little girl (me) staring perplexedly at a computer, a vision of how she’ll spend most of her time when she grows up into contemporary me

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andypiper, to Starwars
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“A Jedi's strength flows from the Force, as this water it does.” quick stop at the former LucasArts building in San Francisco!

LauraLangdon,
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@andypiper Oh, you’re in the Bay! Lmk if you’re in the mood for a meet-up! 😊

AmiW, to Stockholm German
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🪡 Artist: in City: Finspångsgatan /Gunnebogatan Sweden 🇸🇪 2019 - Title: "Sleeping Beauty" -
! ☕🥐

LauraLangdon,
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@AmiW @aronow 100% thought this was on a gravestone for a minute, pretty disappointed now.

ehmatthes, to random
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Has anyone else seen this odd macOS behavior?

After I restart my computer and open Safari, I usually want to open a couple windows on different desktops. Command-shift-N, which should open a new window, does nothing.

It only works after I open a new window using the menu once (File > New Window).

LauraLangdon,
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@ehmatthes Hmm, I’m not seeing this (MacOS 14.4.1).

grimalkina, to random
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"Unfortunately we were unable to find any qualified reviewers for your work" --> the soundtrack of my life 😩 we persevere but we are TIRED

LauraLangdon,
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@grimalkina I’ve been considering a change. 👀 What would an ideal path look like for this niche?

kjaymiller, to random
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On Getting Your First Job in Tech (Part 1): https://kjaymiller.com/blog/on-getting-your-first-job-in-tech-part-1.html

LauraLangdon,
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@kjaymiller Awesome resource, cheers! Just checking: is the invitation at the end for Coffee and Code open to anyone or is it specifically intended for folks in Black Python Devs (totally understand if it’s the latter!)?

cstross, to random
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Eclipse watchers in America: WAAAH THERE ARE CLOUDS BLOCKING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE.

Edinburgh Castle: hold my beer

LauraLangdon,
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@cstross @blogdiva We took a friend to Yosemite for their first visit and there was so much fog in the valley that we had to assure them “Swear to god we’re surrounded by mountains rn.”

Photo reference for those who haven’t had the experience (via https://www.citrusmilo.com/yosemiteguide/introduction.php)

El Capitan (left) is about 7500 ft/2300 m high and we were right at its base.

rasterweb, to random
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I wrote a post about a Tiny Travel Humidifier I've been testing out...

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/03/26/tiny-travel-humidifier/

LauraLangdon,
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@rasterweb High five from a fellow travel humidifier person! Mine lives in my everyday bag (it’s watertight), and it’s absolutely essential to me. I do wish it were USB-C instead of micro USB, but that’s my only complaint. I hope yours keeps working for you!

inthehands, to random
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Yesterday a student came to me with project questions. She was trying to learn some ground-level tool basics (how useState works in React, but details don’t matter), and she was just hopelessly confused: the pieces were there, fragments of nascent understanding littered all around, but somehow it just wasn’t coming together for her.

She walked me through her fragments of non-working code, and as I was trying to figure out how she’d got so lost, she popped back to her documentation source:

1/2

LauraLangdon,
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@tedinski @inthehands When I started using active learning techniques in my classes (math) my student evaluations completely polarized. Some students really hated me for it, because they felt like I wasn’t “teaching” them.

root, to random

one of the pads on my glasses broke off (bad) so i swapped a new one in from an old pair (cool) but I couldn't get the tiny screw all the way back in (bad, probably) and also i scratched the lens with the screwdriver (less bad than you'd think, it's not really noticeable when wearing them) so now I'm back to square one and in the market for new glasses

LauraLangdon,
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@root For anyone else looking for a link 🩷: https://www.eyebuydirect.com/eyeglasses/frames/cymric-black-l-24906

skinnylatte, (edited ) to random
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WTF

https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/22/bart-rider-detained-charging-phone/

I hope everyone who has advocated for 'BART Police' is happy with themselves (I know they are, which is maybe the point)

LauraLangdon,
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@skinnylatte And of course it shouldn’t matter whether the cops believed he was committing a crime; the only thing that matters is whether he was committing a crime, and but this “independent police auditor” is fully ready to let the cops police by vibes instead of laws.

“Bloom said an important part of the investigation will be to look at the language of the warning near the electrical outlet and whether officers can say specifically why they believed Robinson was committing a crime.”

LauraLangdon,
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@skinnylatte Of course!

And 😱🤬😱 to the other board member. I’d missed that when it happened.

ctietze, to voyager
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A keyboard tweak I like:

I have a layer where numbers are arranged similar to a num pad.

But pressing the layer toggle key and shift to produce all the symbols I need during programming is kind of annoying.

To reduce these gymnastics, I added another layer with a one-shot layer toggle that exposes the symbols on the same locations of the numbers.

It's really good without modifiers (shift): hit the thumb key, then hit the symbol key, done.

https://configure.zsa.io/voyager/layouts/m9o6X/wY0ed/0

LauraLangdon,
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@ctietze Yay, programmable keyboards! Mine is similar, but with the symbols labeled directly (like ! instead of Shift +1).

https://configure.zsa.io/voyager/layouts/VjK4J/latest/0

blogdiva, to random
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funny when liberals start blocking me. not funny when i can see replies to them on my timeline but can't read the original post.

so i've had to block some supposed allies who blocked me for, am assuming, not being on the payroll or me not kissing their asses?

MLK's white moderate. Weimar Republic liberals. lord knows the likes of these people have been played out in not so distant history 🙄

they're offended when i say Democrats need to be antifascist?

yeah.

they're the problem.

LauraLangdon,
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@blogdiva @inquiline Honestly for a while at the start of the pandemic Newsom kept doing the right things and it was so disorienting. But it didn’t last long. 🙃

LauraLangdon,
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@violetmadder @blogdiva @inquiline So very smarmy! I always say if a girl was drunk at a party and Newsom offered to drive her home all the other women would lunge forward and be like “No way. We’ve got her.”

ehmatthes, to random
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Hahahahahahahahah no!

I get that people will build these kinds of things. But one of our most valued assets at this point is trust in each of us as an individual.

There are aspects of AI that are more useful than any tool I've ever seen. But there are also aspects that are as useless and cringe-worthy as NFTs.

LauraLangdon,
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@nedbat @ehmatthes Exactly! 😱

mekkaokereke, to random
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PSA: How to open a Tesla door in an emergency

I have friends that happily drive their kids around strapped into child seats in Teslas. I ask them a few questions about this, and I've never had a friend of mine who is a parent answer these questions satisfactorily:

  1. Do you know that Tesla doors might not open if there's no power?

  2. Do you know how to manually open the doors?

  3. Have you timed how long it would take you to get your kids out?

Here's how to get out
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbRBbIGnv4

LauraLangdon,
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@mekkaokereke Wow, it looks like if you have kids in rear-facing car seats you have exactly zero chance of getting them out through the doors, so your only option is to break the windows (all over the kids). And you kind of can’t rehearse that? 😨

hazelweakly, to random
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Anyone else struggle with feeling like that sound extremely rude online if they don't use emojis constantly as punctuation? Just me? 👀

LauraLangdon,
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@hazelweakly 💯

But seriously, very yes!

ehmatthes, to random
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Google maps has worked pretty well for me over the years, but I don't think this is how you get from Fresno to Yosemite.

LauraLangdon,
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@ehmatthes Looks right to me! Oh wait, if you’re surprised because it looks like the route stops before it gets to Yosemite, it actually doesn’t. Wawona is within the park!

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/waw.htm

mekkaokereke, to random
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Me, living in California, for 350 days a year:
"Why do people even check the weather? What a waste of time! Just put on a black t-shirt and go."

Me, living in California, the other 15 days a year:
"Damn! They got me."

LauraLangdon,
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@mekkaokereke Biking along in the Bay Area downpour today, perfectly comfortable because I have a good setup for it:

Me: “It’s so true that there’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.”

My brain: “Mm. Let’s see how smug you are when it’s 116F/47C and everything’s on fire in August.”

grimalkina, (edited ) to hiring
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Folks, an open call: I am TWO Principal Research to join the Developer Success Lab!

One is a scientist with statistics/psychometrics focus (R is our ecosystem here), and one is an intervention science focus; both are fully remote roles working directly with me, our current Principal Scientist, and our brand-new Principal Dev Experience Engineer on our public-facing empirical research mission 🙌

Links in post below:

LauraLangdon,
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@grimalkina I wish PluralSight would let you hire like you described here! https://x.com/grimalkina/status/1484586401194659843?s=20

LauraLangdon, to VisionPro
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I’m just a girl
Wearing a
Wishing I could still drink coffee

Woman wearing a Vision Pro and lifting a Millennial pink coffee mug to her lips, only to have the mug bump against the headset before it can be raised to an angle that would enable drinking

LauraLangdon, to ArcBrowser
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What I wanted: a fully-functioning for iOS and iPadOS

What I had: a nearly-there Arc app for iOS that just needed to let me integrate 1Password and such

What I have now: a second Arc app for iOS that wants to use AI to browse for me and… nothing else

Cartoon child from Monsters Inc with dark hair in bunches and arms outstretched looking desperately disappointed as tears well in her eyes

LauraLangdon, to VisionPro
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Watching reviews it occurred to me that if interacting with 3D models is really, really good it’ll be a complete game-changer for and creating custom garments. You could make models match real bodies curve for curve, even as the same bodies change over time. Physical custom dress forms run $2000+ and match one body at one moment in time.

No clue whether the Vision Pro is that good, but something will be and I’m so excited!

LauraLangdon, to knitting
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Me: If I buy a digital scale accurate to a hundredth of a gram for my yarn will I end up on a list somewhere of potential dealers?

Husband: I can’t imagine you would.

buys scale

Amazon: Can we interest you in some smell-proof bags?

@knitting

LauraLangdon,
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@penpencilbrush @knitting Right? 😁

LauraLangdon,
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@consumablejoy @knitting I went with this one. It measures 100g down to .01g, which should help with the yarn chicken. 😁 I used a kitchen scale yesterday for a pair of socks, but it only goes down to 1g and the rounding error was several rows’ worth. 🙃 And this one’s smaller, so better for the knitting kit.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07C2C9DX4?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image

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