Christine Bryant-Ryback
@hootbot.bsky.social
Software Engineering Manager in civic tech consulting / @hootbot on Twitter / Charlottesville, Virginia / married to @emily.gorcen.ski / she/her
Yeahhhh I’d say hold off if you can; small phone solidarity
December 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Yeahhhh I’d say hold off if you can; small phone solidarity
I actually don’t *hate* the liquid glass aesthetic but it is definitely designed for screens that aren’t my iPhone 13 mini - everything in the new UI is uncomfortably chunky at this resolution
December 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I actually don’t *hate* the liquid glass aesthetic but it is definitely designed for screens that aren’t my iPhone 13 mini - everything in the new UI is uncomfortably chunky at this resolution
Thank you for your service 🫡 The virtual spinning around made me feel too queasy to actually search for any clickable info 🤢
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Thank you for your service 🫡 The virtual spinning around made me feel too queasy to actually search for any clickable info 🤢
The same question I asked myself at 9pm last night except I assumed you’d have an answer lol
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The same question I asked myself at 9pm last night except I assumed you’d have an answer lol
Reposted by Christine Bryant-Ryback
[Starship Troopers voice] Would you like to know less?
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
[Starship Troopers voice] Would you like to know less?
After a particularly demoralizing day today, I had a 5min interaction with someone at work who was told I was a talented engineer by a mutual friend before I started in my position, and that’s just their internal model of me now. To be assumed competent *by default* for 5min made my entire week
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
After a particularly demoralizing day today, I had a 5min interaction with someone at work who was told I was a talented engineer by a mutual friend before I started in my position, and that’s just their internal model of me now. To be assumed competent *by default* for 5min made my entire week
To you their talent may feel so blatantly obvious, so much a fact of your day-to-day, that you don’t want to get weird commenting on it, but to strangers, people who don’t look/feel like engineers just… aren’t engineers, or could be perceived as proto-engineers with caveats at best
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
To you their talent may feel so blatantly obvious, so much a fact of your day-to-day, that you don’t want to get weird commenting on it, but to strangers, people who don’t look/feel like engineers just… aren’t engineers, or could be perceived as proto-engineers with caveats at best
I’m nowhere near the same unconditionally badass engineering level as you 💕
October 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I’m nowhere near the same unconditionally badass engineering level as you 💕
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
(And by accept it, I do mean accepting any literature as “better” somehow than other literature instead of just 1) someone more powerful than you thinking it wasn’t boring, 2) taking that so far as to make other people appreciate it exactly the same way)
October 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
(And by accept it, I do mean accepting any literature as “better” somehow than other literature instead of just 1) someone more powerful than you thinking it wasn’t boring, 2) taking that so far as to make other people appreciate it exactly the same way)
My opinions that developed from those experiences but then strengthened over time: 1) getting to call “classic” literature boring is a privilege, 2) that space can be very interesting to play in if you accept it, but I still don’t know if we should
October 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
My opinions that developed from those experiences but then strengthened over time: 1) getting to call “classic” literature boring is a privilege, 2) that space can be very interesting to play in if you accept it, but I still don’t know if we should
Another teacher said the same thing when I privately complained about high school grammar lessons and our punctuation studies stifling creativity
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Another teacher said the same thing when I privately complained about high school grammar lessons and our punctuation studies stifling creativity
My short story teacher said something to me like, “You’re not wrong but other kids don’t read as much as you and they’re learning this for the first time”
October 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My short story teacher said something to me like, “You’re not wrong but other kids don’t read as much as you and they’re learning this for the first time”