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Amberley Romo
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👩🏻‍💻 Eng at Cribl. Prev: Netlify, Gatsby.
🌱 Serial dabbler. 🧶 Made the yarn emoji happen. 🏳️‍🌈 Y’all means all. 📍ATX. She/her.
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✅ The Great Hunt

My first book mostly finished via audio 🎧
Screenshot of the Audible app, 0 minutes remaining in The Great Hunt.
December 19, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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49% Christmas, 51% vampire.
A close up of my left hand showing my nails painted red. There’s a more red stripe through the middle of each nail, and darker to either side.
December 7, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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ALLLL BYYYY MYYY SEEEELF.
Still from the e-commerce edition of Web Dev Challenge in Houston. Robbie and Jordan collaborating in the foreground, Jason in the background, listening in.
December 5, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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Holiday knitting POV
In the foreground I’m holding my in progress knitting, a couple inches of gray, blue, and salt and pepper rows. In the background blurry is holiday stuffies, a small Christmas tree and great British bake off holiday edition.
December 5, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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✅ Minimalist holiday decor 🎅🏼🎄⭐️
The festive corner of my living room -- a small (faux) pre-lit tree, with ornaments accumulated over the years, a white blanket with geometric green christmas trees and red shapes, and two stuffies (a little Santa and a little smiling dog with a santa hat). The room is warm, lit by the Christmas tree lights. A house front porch, with icicle lights along the roofline, a basic wreath on the door, and our friendly neighborhood porch skeleton Rusty, now donning a green Santa hat.
December 1, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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In this house we love Peter
A snap of College Gameday close up on Kirk Herbstreit at the broadcast desk and his dog Peter, who has his paws up on the desk next to him.
November 30, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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That ✨ fresh cast on feeling ✨
A new cast on knitting project, just one setup row complete. It’s sitting on top of the mini bundle yarn for the rest of the project — a bundle I couldn’t resist from Purl Soho.
November 29, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Tis now the season!
The photo shows part of my living room. In the foreground on the coffee table is a coffee and a new knitting project. On the tv in the background is the Lofi Girl Christmas stream, and next to it is our small Christmas tree.
November 29, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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My lil soot sprite
My dog Lyla, a small black lab mix, sitting near the couch looking off to the side. In the background is our tv and bookshelf, blurred.
November 24, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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The Wheel of time turns, and the reread begins again.

✅ The Eye of The World
The cover of The Eye of the World, the first book in the Wheel of Time series, on my Kindle. A lofi channel is on my tv in the background.
November 24, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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I was influenced, and I have no regrets.
My kindle, held up by a tablet holder, displaying the first page of chapter one of the second book in the Wheel of Time series. I’m also holding a clicker that turns the page wirelessly.
November 24, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Hadn't seen one of these before.
Screenshot of a modal message seen after I went to copy a link to a post. "Note about sharing: This post is only visible to logged-in users. It won't be visible to people who aren't logged in." Then provided actions: Cancel, Share anyway.
November 23, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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TIL Bluesky has a "logged-out visibility" setting (for Bluesky proper at least).
A screenshot of the Bluesky Settings > Privacy area with a setting for "Logged-out visibility" toggle, which discourages apps from showing you account to logged-out users. This setting is limited to the Bluesky app and website, other apps may not respect this setting.
November 23, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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Good morning, starshine. Riggins says hello.
My dog Riggins, a large lab mix, looking down at me. He takes up most of the photo and his head looks overly huge due to the perspective.
November 22, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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These two nerds got married last week ❤️
Me and my spouse (!!) standing at the base of the steps outside the Travis County Courthouse. He’s wearing a blue jacket, button down and jeans, I’m wearing a red silk dress. We’re holding hands, he’s smiling big at me and I’ve got my other hand in my dress pocket (yes dress pocket!) and am laughing about something.
November 21, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Possum! On The Fenceline.
Cutie little possum peeking over the fence. It’s dark outside and he’s illuminated by a flashlight.
November 20, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Nothing without my squad
My little rubber ducking buddies on my desk: a red duck with horns, a purple duck, a ceramic mushroom with a top that looks like a pop tart, a ceramic turtle and an anthropomorphic poo
November 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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This is my go-to stack of feeds rn.

I love Quiet Posters to see posts I otherwise might miss from folks who post less frequently.

I love The ‘Gram for an unpolished IG-ish experience.
A screenshot of my most used feeds. In order: “Mutuals, OnlyPosts, Quiet Posters, Only Replies, The ‘Gram”
November 18, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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But also: hot dogs.
Hot dogs cooking on a campfire grill in the dark evening. The rest of the background isn’t visible.
November 17, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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Updated text on my bluesky blog post: Twexit: Acknowledged but unlinked. Very often referenced right now, but marked as "not intended for public use" / "testing only, not for general use".
November 12, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Close up on the buddies.
The buddies on my desk: two rubber ducks, a ceramic turtle, a ceramic mushroom, and an anthropomorphic poo character.
November 12, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Post your work workstation setup.
My work station: A white desk with a Logitech ergonomic keyboard, my laptop, one display on either side, a Rubik’s cube, timer, tardis mug of pens, candle, fan, and little work buddies (rubber ducks, ceramic mushroom and turtle, and smiley poo character).
November 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Tryin
Ladybird lake in downtown Austin Texas. Blue water below, blue skies above, green treeline on either side of the river.
November 10, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Something creative that brings me joy - this incredible piece created by my great grandparents.

The wood work done by my great grandfather, the rock collage art done by my great grandmother.
A hanging vertically oriented art piece. The frame and background wood, and collaged rocks are arranged in the wood cutout areas to form an image of birds and plants. The color palette is very neutral — black, brown and white.
November 10, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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“based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like”

It’s the number of todo lists and balls of yarn for me.
ChatGPT generated illustration of what it thinks my life looks like. An illustrated woman is sitting facing away, looking at a computer with a window behind it. The rest of the room is an office, with two dogs, lots of books and yarn, coffee, and several todo lists on the wall.
November 10, 2024 at 12:10 AM