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@grandtheftdisco.bsky.social
👩💻 Full-stack web noob who identifies as a backend goblin.
🧶 Avid knitter & yarn-buyer.
⌨️ Rails+Ruby, but functional-/procedural-curious.
😎 Sharing the thoughts I have while mind-melding with the machine.
🧶 Avid knitter & yarn-buyer.
⌨️ Rails+Ruby, but functional-/procedural-curious.
😎 Sharing the thoughts I have while mind-melding with the machine.
If your New Year's resolution is to do more cardio, might I suggest a mock technical interview?
January 9, 2026 at 8:24 PM
If your New Year's resolution is to do more cardio, might I suggest a mock technical interview?
Wondering if I'd get any callbacks with this resume.
January 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Wondering if I'd get any callbacks with this resume.
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Did you know you can get your GitHub profile pic by adding .png to your profile page? It's super handy!
github.com/cassidoo.png
github.com/cassidoo.png
January 6, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Did you know you can get your GitHub profile pic by adding .png to your profile page? It's super handy!
github.com/cassidoo.png
github.com/cassidoo.png
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The Tailwind folks released a new marketing template and the social proof quotes are hilarious :D
tailwindcss.com/plus/kits/oa...
tailwindcss.com/plus/kits/oa...
January 7, 2026 at 10:22 AM
The Tailwind folks released a new marketing template and the social proof quotes are hilarious :D
tailwindcss.com/plus/kits/oa...
tailwindcss.com/plus/kits/oa...
Building a photo gallery for this web app & was advised to use Cloudinary's CDN for my particular situation. Given that written docs are harder to parse when you're new to a concept, the fact that they offer a full video course [tailored to Rails devs!] to help you integrate the API is incredible. 🙏
January 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Building a photo gallery for this web app & was advised to use Cloudinary's CDN for my particular situation. Given that written docs are harder to parse when you're new to a concept, the fact that they offer a full video course [tailored to Rails devs!] to help you integrate the API is incredible. 🙏
The way someone reacts to the phrase "You're absolutely right!" tells you a lot about them. For instance, if they react with any sort of positive feeling, they clearly never work with LLMs.
January 6, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The way someone reacts to the phrase "You're absolutely right!" tells you a lot about them. For instance, if they react with any sort of positive feeling, they clearly never work with LLMs.
While front-end work has its share of problems, I'm realizing that my brain is atrophying because I just caught myself daydreaming about finding a bug so diabolical that I had to touch grass in order for the solution to be revealed to me. DAYDREAMING about it.
January 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
While front-end work has its share of problems, I'm realizing that my brain is atrophying because I just caught myself daydreaming about finding a bug so diabolical that I had to touch grass in order for the solution to be revealed to me. DAYDREAMING about it.
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![[Eric André gun meme template]:
Eric André shoots a man labeled "Stack Overflow".
Turning to the camera, he implores, "Why would vibe coders do this?" as he is revealed, himself, to be Stack Overflow.
In response to his own question, he turns around and shoots Stack Overflow again, while marking his own question as a duplicate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gt2t2lundhefyockew6n37eg/bafkreia32t5col2m5xodtfnprjn4mw7xb3rtwkofl3bztpl6t6ttpefvt4@jpeg)
Thinking about this short story I had to read for American Lit in high school and I am 1) grateful for being introduced to work that I still think about 15 years later and 2) encouraging you to read it. This is John Cheever's "The Swimmer" - www.ux1.eiu.edu/~rlbeebe/the...
www.ux1.eiu.edu
January 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Thinking about this short story I had to read for American Lit in high school and I am 1) grateful for being introduced to work that I still think about 15 years later and 2) encouraging you to read it. This is John Cheever's "The Swimmer" - www.ux1.eiu.edu/~rlbeebe/the...
When I code, I typically have deep house mixes playing while wearing noise-cancelling headphones, so I can rein in the ADHD and lock in.
But sometimes I catch myself coding in absolute silence, in a flow state, and that spooks me.
But sometimes I catch myself coding in absolute silence, in a flow state, and that spooks me.
January 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
When I code, I typically have deep house mixes playing while wearing noise-cancelling headphones, so I can rein in the ADHD and lock in.
But sometimes I catch myself coding in absolute silence, in a flow state, and that spooks me.
But sometimes I catch myself coding in absolute silence, in a flow state, and that spooks me.
Today's a work day for me, so here's my CSS thought of the day: after writing 3500 lines of custom Tailwind classes for this web app, I'm realizing that every change I make to the legacy code feels like a game of Jenga where I've been blindfolded.
January 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Today's a work day for me, so here's my CSS thought of the day: after writing 3500 lines of custom Tailwind classes for this web app, I'm realizing that every change I make to the legacy code feels like a game of Jenga where I've been blindfolded.
New Year, new idea for a side project I don't have bandwidth for. May this year be full of deployed and well-tended side projects for us all! 👩🏻💻
January 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM
New Year, new idea for a side project I don't have bandwidth for. May this year be full of deployed and well-tended side projects for us all! 👩🏻💻
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For those of you wanting to start a new project in the new year but afraid you're gonna suck, heed the words of the ancient texts:
December 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
For those of you wanting to start a new project in the new year but afraid you're gonna suck, heed the words of the ancient texts:
Just learned a new phrase: "the juice isn't worth the squeeze". So tickled by this language. I am going to ABSOLUTELY over-use this when considering whether to abstract or modularize my code going forward.
December 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Just learned a new phrase: "the juice isn't worth the squeeze". So tickled by this language. I am going to ABSOLUTELY over-use this when considering whether to abstract or modularize my code going forward.
This webcomic is something I think about almost every day even though I haven't been able to use this excuse since I was writing C++ in high school programming class.
What's a legitimate excuse for slacking in Current Year? "Claude is flibbertigibbeting"? "My bloated test suite is running"?
What's a legitimate excuse for slacking in Current Year? "Claude is flibbertigibbeting"? "My bloated test suite is running"?
December 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This webcomic is something I think about almost every day even though I haven't been able to use this excuse since I was writing C++ in high school programming class.
What's a legitimate excuse for slacking in Current Year? "Claude is flibbertigibbeting"? "My bloated test suite is running"?
What's a legitimate excuse for slacking in Current Year? "Claude is flibbertigibbeting"? "My bloated test suite is running"?
After being gifted a Nintendo Switch, I've been playing a lot of Stardew Valley. I've become a virtual sheep and rabbit farmer. What does it say about a person when they relax from work by pretending they're working a different job? 🤔
December 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
After being gifted a Nintendo Switch, I've been playing a lot of Stardew Valley. I've become a virtual sheep and rabbit farmer. What does it say about a person when they relax from work by pretending they're working a different job? 🤔
Is anyone working on anything interesting lately? I've been up to my eyeballs in CSS and I want to live vicariously.
On an unrelated note, if you would like to finish styling my frontend for me, I will pay in handmade goods. 🧶🧣🧤🧦 Knits 4 Commits: a groundbreaking payroll model.
On an unrelated note, if you would like to finish styling my frontend for me, I will pay in handmade goods. 🧶🧣🧤🧦 Knits 4 Commits: a groundbreaking payroll model.
December 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Is anyone working on anything interesting lately? I've been up to my eyeballs in CSS and I want to live vicariously.
On an unrelated note, if you would like to finish styling my frontend for me, I will pay in handmade goods. 🧶🧣🧤🧦 Knits 4 Commits: a groundbreaking payroll model.
On an unrelated note, if you would like to finish styling my frontend for me, I will pay in handmade goods. 🧶🧣🧤🧦 Knits 4 Commits: a groundbreaking payroll model.
Finally back in front of the machine and catching up on Ruby news: this is wild. Bittersweet, as I love C. But our little Ruby is growing up. 🥲
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Finally back in front of the machine and catching up on Ruby news: this is wild. Bittersweet, as I love C. But our little Ruby is growing up. 🥲
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Congrats Ryan, nice to see Minitest get some polish to keep it shiny. https://ruby.social/@zenspider/115737453096634435
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Release 1185: Oh god... here we go... (again) IT IS TIME! minitest v6.0.0 (final) has been released! All the cleanup I've wanted for years is here! cmdline runner! line numbers! Plugins are opt-in by default! It is even (a teeny bit) faster than before! This one is big. ***DO NOT BLINDLY UPDATE!*** Especially if you use minitest-around or are on rails but not rails edge (there are internal fixes in there).*** *** https://www.zenspider.com/releases/2025/12/minitest-version-6-0-0-has-been-released.html
ruby.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Congrats Ryan, nice to see Minitest get some polish to keep it shiny. https://ruby.social/@zenspider/115737453096634435
Is anybody able to get anything done today? It’s basically Christmas Eve at this point in my brain, so after 1 commit I seem to be allergic to my machine.
December 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Is anybody able to get anything done today? It’s basically Christmas Eve at this point in my brain, so after 1 commit I seem to be allergic to my machine.
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OKAY WHY IS A 64GB RAM KIT ALREADY 700 EUROS
December 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
OKAY WHY IS A 64GB RAM KIT ALREADY 700 EUROS
This could work.
Tricking a vibe coder into learning to code
YouTube video by Alberta Tech
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December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This could work.
How it feels to approve your own pull request for a side project you’ve been neglecting
December 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
How it feels to approve your own pull request for a side project you’ve been neglecting
As Christmas draws ever closer, I feel more and more like Bingus.
December 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
As Christmas draws ever closer, I feel more and more like Bingus.