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Elin
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Hej, I'm Elin! 👋 I do research for @pragmaticengineer.com, take pictures of fancy ducks, do various naturey and crafty activities, and think many random thoughts about life, the universe and everything! 🐢🪴
Fancy duck season has come to Stockholm! 🦆🎩
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Do you have examples or experiences working with MCP servers and solutions? 🧑‍💻 We at @pragmaticengineer.com want to hear from you! We’re looking into MCP and would love to hear how you/your team or company work with MCP!

DM me - or fill out forms.gle/4hWZRh4ZKBvn... - or both!
MCP servers and setups
Hi 👋 this is Gergely and Elin at The Pragmatic Engineer. We're researching MCP servers and solutions, and would love to hear about how you've been using or working with MCP, either you/your team or y...
forms.gle
September 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A very mean-looking beetle joined me for dinner yesterday - its rage was palpable
July 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
awww look at you @bsky.app, making it onto the NYT mini crossword 👏🦋

(I don't know how to flag the screenshot as a #spoiler I'm sorry 😭)
July 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Hank and John created two absolute bangers recently which has helped me understand my relationship with content and the internet, starting with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 's video about how we're addicted to things *for a reason*, because they _feel good_: youtu.be/0veampRSw7w?...
Am I Cigarettes?
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
youtu.be
July 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
youtu.be/if-IgLJQbPI?... talks about rage bait and controversy as basically the most effective marketing strategy that exists, and it's true and I hate it so much
The Worst Trend on the Internet Right Now
YouTube video by State of Kait
youtu.be
July 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Is AI Apocalypse Inevitable? - Tristan Harris
YouTube video by After Skool
youtu.be
June 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Reposted by Elin
These are the folks most likely to save PEPFAR. Please call them TODAY and tell them to vote NO on codifying cuts to PEPFAR and other critical, life-saving aid. act.pih.org/global-healt...
Don't cut funding
Tell Congress to reverse the Trump Administration's decision to freeze all U.S. foreign aid spending on global health programs, including the delivery of lifesaving medicines to vulnerable patients.
act.pih.org
June 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Reposted by Elin
I'll be at LDX3 (formerly: LeadDev) in a week, together with the full @pragmaticengineer.com team (with @hejelin.com‬ and Dominic, our editor), in London - vey much looking forward to it! If you'll be there, there will be plenty of opportunities to say hi to us:

leaddev.com/leaddev-lond...
June 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Hey you! You should watch this: youtu.be/NSuSyZ92Cjg?...

(It's a 4-ish min funny but somehow also profound speech which is not nearly as serious as the thumbnail and title suggests)
Fredrik Backman on Creative Anxiety and Procrastination
YouTube video by Simon & Schuster Books
youtu.be
May 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
@hankgreen.bsky.social i need you to do connections today! Ktnxbai
April 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
📣 What's in your tech stack? Me and @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com want to know!

We're doing our biggest @pragmaticengineer.com survey yet, to get a realistic snapshot of what the industry is using, loving and disliking, and we need your help! 🙏

www.surveymonkey.com/r/whatisyour...
What is in your tech stack?
Hi 👋 this is Gergely and Elin at The Pragmatic Engineer. We want to know what tools, languages, frameworks and platforms you're using today! We want to get a realistic snapshot of what the industry is...
www.surveymonkey.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This video contains a lot of what I've needed to hear recently, about creativity and the value of sharing the things you create with other people. Because chances are, on the other end, there's someone who needs it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZZ...
How the algorithm killed your creativity
YouTube video by struthless
www.youtube.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
At least spring is springing
March 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Algorithms are breaking how we think
YouTube video by Technology Connections
youtu.be
March 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Today's fancy duck walk was sunny ☀️
February 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I constantly revisit this Hank Green talk, dismantling the concept of dreams, and why you have no obligation to a desire you once had, or to your former self - because that person is not only dumber than you, they also *don't exist*

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPto...
@hankgreen.bsky.social
Hank Green, Vlogbrothers/VidCon - XOXO Festival (2014)
YouTube video by XOXO Festival
www.youtube.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social pls do connections today
January 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
@livmdr.bsky.social 👋👋👋
January 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Reposted by Elin
Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040
January 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I finished my #sensitsweater on new years eve, and have been pretty much living in it since 🥰🧶 I miss having a big project tho, might need to make another one... 😬 #crochet
January 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I was today years old when I realised the top shelf in my fridge can actually store tall things because there's MORE SPACE AT THE BACK 🤯
January 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
From today's fancy duck walk 🦆🎩
January 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I think the Instagram discovery feed algorithm is bullying me
January 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social it's a Hank Green-type of Connections today!
January 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM