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Betsy Langowski

@superbetsy.bsky.social

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Director of Software Engineering. Apple alum. Star Wars, Math, Video Games, Books, Knitting, Spinning Wheels, Rowing, Dog Pictures, Minnesotan. My hair was weird before weird hair was cool. I’m cross-posting from Mastodon, find me there!

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Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · Nov 15

Seems like everyone is doing re-intros!
👋🏻I’m Betsy.
🐶My dog is named Toby Ziegler the Dog.
👩‍💻I work in tech.
🐘I prefer mastodon (@[email protected]) but cross-post here.
📝Anything of deep importance is at superbetsy.com/blog.
🍭Here be memes, unhinged observations, and book reviews.

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking through my Macintosh user guide (the booklet that accompanied my 1984 Macintosh) for the first time in a while, and I'm a little obsessed with this graphic explaining scrolling.

A page from the “Learning Macintosh” chapter of the Macintosh user guide. It says “Most of the time, a window on the desktop can't show you the entire directory or document all at once, even when you've made the window very large. There's often more information than can fit in the window at one time.” With a MacPaint-generated papyrus scroll featuring a square demonstrating the visible content.

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Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 2d

When you work hard all morning monitoring the neighborhood from a cushion near the window and then go on a long afternoon walk by the river, you deserve a relaxing night.

Toby looks up at the camera from a cocoon of blankets and pillows

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 4d

Have you ever seen a dog feel sorrier for himself while getting his annual vaccines?

Toby sits at the edge of an exam table, his eyes downcast and ears drooping.

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 8d

I hope whoever invented these things stubs their toe. Then encounters unusual traffic. Then doesn't take their laundry out of the washer fast enough so everything smells funny.

A packing tape dispenser with a handle and a whole system to route the tape that inevitably causes the tape to tangle.

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 10d

When you're finishing a relaxing shower and are suddenly struck with a memory of putting your towel in the wash, but have no accompanying memory of getting a new one from the linen closet….

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 10d

It was Mean Girls day at Dogtopia (so fetch!)

Toby looks at the camera. He’s in front of a Mean Girls themed backdrop that includes a burn book and a lot of pink streamers

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 11d

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Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks!!! 💪🏻

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 15d

I feel so virtuous returning a library book early, especially when I can see how many people are waiting for it. "That's right! Despite finishing it, I am entitled to keep A Walk in the Woods for eight more days. But in my benevolence, I'll allow the next poor soul access."

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 16d

I went to Oktoberfest and WON the keg press competition! Cheers!🍻

I’m bench pressing a barbell with two quarter kegs attached

I’m “cheering” a giant skeleton who is holding a stein.

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Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 17d

It's this macabre time of year.

Toby holds a plush squeaky toy that is in the shape of a bloody knife

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Bitrig @bitrig.bsky.social · 18d

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Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 20d

I was visiting my parents the past couple days. Toby is the happiest dog running through the apple orchard and generally patrolling the perimeter.

Toby sits on a deck and looks across the acreage

Toby runs through the orchard, his ears flying and back legs kicked up.

The sun rises over a foggy slough and corn field

A cluster of apples weighs down a branch.

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 21d

I just hope today's rapture stays out of the kitchen.

A still from the “raptors in the kitchen” scene in Jurassic Park. Two velociraptors prowl through a commercial kitchen.

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Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 22d

It's nice that we get to celebrate Bilbo's 111th birthday year after year. I do something similar with my 29th. Happy birthday, hobbitses!

Bilbo making his speech in The Fellowship of the Ring. He says “today is my 111th birthday!”

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 25d

Me, watching the UPS live map as the truck with my new iPhone drives all around me but not TO me:

"It should just stop. I could drive to the truck and pick up my package. I bet other people would, too. We could just form a line."

So. I today I invented the Post Office.

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Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · 25d

When there is scary thunder happening and you don't care at all that your mom is busy

Toby sits curled up on my lap, my obviously displaced laptop discarded to the side.

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · Sep 14

What a great day to dress up as Ninja Turtles and row a 17K race! Yes we wore our shells in our racing shell.

Four of us stand with our backs to the camera looking over a shoulder. We are wearing green, and wearing homemade turtle shells on our back. We are making muscles.

The crew of four smile at the camera, the Mississippi river in the background

The sun coming up over the Mississippi, a single sculler rows out of the frame

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · Sep 12

Toby got his "school ID" at Dogtopia today and it's so cute I just can't even.

A laminated card in the style of a school ID. It’s a picture of Toby with this text:

dogtopia.
2025-2026
Toby
Shih Tzu
Age: 9 years
Room: Toybox

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · Sep 12

Orange I glad I skipped my workout this morning to preorder??? (Yes)

Confirmation screen that my orange iPhone pro will arrive on the 19th.

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · Sep 11

IT'S NOT FALL YET! ☀️

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · Sep 10

I had a dream last night in which I vehemently defended the merits of the tunic top of 2005-ish fashion, and I woke up fully on board with bringing them back. Suddenly Stephen King finding his horror plots in dreams makes sense to me.

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · Sep 9

He also claims that he hasn’t been fed in at least a week. So he may not be a reliable source.

Betsy Langowski @superbetsy.bsky.social · Sep 9

But. What if I want the heroin chic blue iPhone but my adorable dog demands four cameras to fully capture his cuteness?

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · Sep 8

Minnesota law will preserve access to the COVID-19 vaccine even if RFK Jr.-appointed vaccine skeptics discourage some people from getting the shots.

Latest COVID-19 vaccines reach Minnesota amid confusion over who gets them

Minnesota pharmacy law will preserve access to COVID-19 vaccine, even if federal health advisers opt later this month to discourage some people from getting the shots.

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