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sue

@sue@glasgow.social

🎏 Writes code to help other folk learn to write code

🏊🏻‍♀️ Swimmer
🃏 Clown
🪩 Lefty smartarse
💅🏻 Still petty after cancer

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I was on a long haul flight a few days ago and put a John Wick on the in-flight entertainment system with the sound off, I just find it reassuring to see Keanu killing folk in the background 😌

sue,
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https://httpkeanu.glitch.me/?code=200

sue, to random
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Being Glaswegian and working for US tech companies means being accidentally perceived as no nonsense, straight talking and all that when you quite literally had the politeness dialed up to the max 🤣

sue,
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The number of times I've had feedback from younger women colleagues saying they were inspired by the way I talked to men and I didn't have the heart to tell them I was merely being Glaswegian

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The flipside being when folk take offence at the apparently aggressive way someone else speaks and I'm like lol don't ever visit Glasgow pal 😂

sue,
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@sds I have those gaps whenever I'm translating vernacular on the fly lol

sue, to random
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Thinking about the folk in the room who knew that apple ad was going to be a disaster and didn't say anything lol, maybe one person did and was binned then no one else dared, more likely the folk in the room were only in there because they don't do that kind of thing..

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People in leadership roles like to tell that story about wanting people around them who'll be honest, but it's a great way to never get promoted in most places lol

sue, to random
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I had a partial breakthrough keeping my hair dry when swimming by wearing a terry cloth sweatband under my cap, the hair was COMPLETELY DRY except the small amount the sweatband touched 🎉

And I had a long swim with lots of front crawl so max head under water

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There are various products, tips etc for this, mostly aimed at Black women.. For me I try to keep my hair dry because it's bleached, no offense to anyone with green hair but it's not the look I'm personally going for

None of the available caps stop your hair getting wet in my experience, even double capping.. This is the best result I've had so far and I shall continue experimenting 🧪

sue,
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I think a sweatband absorbent on one side and waterproof on the other positioned just inside a cap would work, I just need to figure out how to make a prototype 🪡

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I was away from home last week and some of my plants had a bath rave

sue,
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Or an "empty" if you're from here

sue,
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@sarajw I think they'd rather stay there but I'd also like to use the bath 🙃

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Every time I visit an art gallery or museum I feel compelled to encourage folk to read and/or watch John Berger's Ways of Seeing, about mystification in art https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1

sue,
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It was originally a BBC TV series and has if anything become more relevant as the years have passed, I kept referring back to it when NFTs were on the rise https://youtu.be/0pDE4VX_9Kk?si=YOCISCE7bbApcqg9

sue,
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"The meaning of the original work no longer lies in what it uniquely says but in what it uniquely is. It is defined as an object whose value depends upon its rarity. This value is affirmed and gauged by the price it fetches on the market. But because art is thought to be greater than commerce - its market price is said to be a reflection of its spiritual value.. the 'work of art' is enveloped in an atmosphere of entirely bogus religiosity."

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Saw this on the wall of a bookshop yesterday and oh my goodness

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(Artist name is Mark Drew)

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Once again my understanding of American culture has been informed by the Golden Girls

Sophia Petrillo singing Thanks for the medicare

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I was on a plane and lots of people went into the toilet wearing socks and no

sue,
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Is this part of what the last four years unleashed, a backlash against basic hygiene, wtf

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"I've decided not to wear masks so may as well roll around in raw sewage while I'm at it"

sue, to random
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Nothing radicalises me more against the gatekeeping that is quite literally built into software engineering tooling than setting up local developer environments lol I had to do it this week and you better believe a blog post is incoming 😂

sue,
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Why not instead figure out what parts of the work these tools can't do, we need an evolving definition of what software engineering is, that has always been the case, new waves of abstraction keep coming.

Or start figuring out how we're going to manage the effects of this shift in the creation process. Even if your org doesn't use AI you can assume it's part of the ecosystem your shit almost certainly integrates with.

Pretending it's going to go away isn't a great strategy IMHO.

sue,
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@dale This is it, the refusal to engage with complexity strikes again

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