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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jun 27

Rachel McAdams and Regina George are completely different people in my mind

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jun 22

Gibt nix besseres am heißesten Tag des Jahres

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jun 5

And we’re not even done yet! Some things are still cooking…. Stay tuned!

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · Jun 5

💡 Very excited to announce new features: better interactive maps! 🗺️

– Enhanced country/region selection with several sorting options and a bar chart preview
– Selecting a country highlights it and shows its value on the map
– Zooming to your selection brings up a 3D globe view 🌍

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Clara Rosa Schwarz @clararosawelt.bsky.social · Apr 24

🏳️‍🌈 It’s lesbian visibility week! 🏳️‍⚧️
I edited a volume about queer, and specifically trans and lesbian, history and story telling. Despite the German title, most contributions are in English. You can read it for free (open access) or buy a print copy 💗 www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...

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Clara Rosa Schwarz @clararosawelt.bsky.social · Apr 21

Hab ein Buch herausgegeben und hier könnt ihr es lesen (Open Access als pdf oder als Druck Ausgabe) www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Mar 22

I use a @raycast.com snippet that is mapped to a keyword. Typing qd inserts the current date for me

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Mar 21

Gaudi schön und gut aber wart ihr schon mal Darmstadt Hundertwasserhaus

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Mar 4

For every best-practices engineer in a team there should be one yolo engineer to balance things outs

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Mar 3

I don’t usually like story lines that feel too constructed but the narrator in du Maurier’s Rebecca ending up exactly where she started is 🤌 chef’s kiss

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Mar 2

It just broke my heart a little that the first ‘question’ on this super important and very personal talk was just some guy mansplaining her.

A Case for Feminism in Programming Languages by Felienne Hermans:

[SPLASH'24] Pacific - Onward! (Oct 23th)

YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

www.youtube.com

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Feb 21

How could @ourworldindata.org maps be better?

Do you experience any annoyances or pain points when you interact with our maps?

Is there something you wish you could do that you currently can’t?

What’s the next cool thing we could build on top of our maps?

Any notes welcome! Thank you 🙏

GDP per capita

This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in living costs between countries.

ourworldindata.org

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Feb 17

If I were to pitch @gitbutler.com, I’d say it’s a Jujutsu-like workflow packaged as git client

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Feb 13

Stell dir vor du wirst illustriert und dein Erkennungsmerkmal sind 3 Haare aufm Kopp

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Feb 13

Glaube nicht, dass die Illustrator*in Merz besonders mag?

Cover des “Friedrich Merz: Sein langer Weg zur Macht” Podcast von Zeit Online. Ein illustrierter Friedrich Merz kriecht ins Lampenlicht.

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jan 31

Code formatting
- Doesn’t get in the way
- Real time saver
- Nice and friendly

Linting
- Disrupts work
- Barely helpful
- Mean and annoying

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jan 30

Fridge

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jan 30

Continuous list of things that would be better without touch screens:

Push-to-walk button
Stove
Doorbell
Kettle

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jan 22

Advertising for zero backlog at work while my personal reading list keeps growing and growing………

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jan 15

Does anyone know of a Figma plugin that draws ✨ beautiful arrows ✨ that auto-update when connected shapes are moved?

I‘m thinking @tldraw.com quality arrows but in Figma

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jan 2

Kidding, I started the year making a flaky test pass, as god intended

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Jan 2

Starting the year right by rotating Grapher’s y-axis labels

Scatter plot with a vertical y-axis label

Scatter plot with a horizontal y-axis label

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Dec 22

I probably get it wrong 50% of the time.

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Sophia Mersmann @sophiamersmann.bsky.social · Dec 22

The trickiest part of refactoring is deciding if the new code is *actually* better or if it just *feels* better because it’s now more familiar to you.

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