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meg 🌸

@cactusflamingo.bsky.social

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software engineer, previously principal QA engineer. pedals and runs. honorary yorkshire lass. collector of ancient code scrolls 🧠🌶️ words: https://cactus-flamingo.ghost.io/

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 1d

Japan Railway Journal is just so delightful. Thanks NHK World for making this available to me 😂 I love being able to do deep dives on various Japanese trains for no reason.

meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 6d

I saw a review for these knives which stated that the reviewer’s partner managed to chop the top of her finger off very easily with one of them 😅 I’ve been very careful as a result of this!

meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 6d

So you can ask Slack “What does {name}do?” and it comes up with some AI generated summary based on your posts… it says that I’m a QA engineer who provides technical support, referencing a blog I wrote and on-call activities I did. I guess my past careers shape my present approach?

meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 6d

Right? I am really looking forward to showing the next butternut squash who’s boss with these new knives, they feel dangerous.

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 7d

Now that the wedding is all done and dusted, I can actually focus on other things, like trying to meet new people in this city of mine. Or… I could get a motorbike license and drive many miles down the road to my old city and my long term friends. The license feels more doable 😅

meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 9d

It feels so icky, I don’t want to publicly congratulate myself for doing my business as usual work which is expected of me 😂

meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 9d

Oh yay, finally starting to discover what performative behaviour is expected of me as a developer. I’ve been gently nudged to make a big deal out of the work I do by posting on our team Slack channel to Raise Visibility. Like my standup updates & the features don’t speak for themselves.

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 11d

Like the living kind or the cleaning kind?

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 11d

At some point I’ll post about testing and development again… but at the moment I’m far too excited about other things, like the fact I’ve just bought some lovely new kitchen knives. The catalyst for the purchase was the fact I bruised my palm chopping some butternut squash. That was a step too far.

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 14d

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you so much ❤️ The dress brought me so much joy to wear, I just felt magical! It was super soft material too so it was mega comfy.

meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks so much ❤️
And it’s lovely that you did that for her! I was lucky that nobody seemed particularly invested in me being traditional, so I just went all out 😂

meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 17d

Haha, thanks! Nice to have something to celebrate for once 😂

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · 17d

Hey everyone, I’ve been away a while and it’s because I got married! Hoping to finally have some headspace for online things again.
Sorry to those who already saw the old post!

A woman in a blue tie dye wedding dress holding a wedding bouquet, with a man in a powder blue suit looking very happy, stood in a sea of confetti outside of a small chapel.

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · Sep 1

It is not a good sign when you start your week with the retro being cancelled due to outages over the weekend.

meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is such a kind offer ❤️ I’ve got an unusually busy few weeks coming up but if the offer still stands afterward I’d love to take you up on this. Thank you!

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