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Kyle Shevlin (he/him)

@kyleshevl.in

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Software engineer. Skilled with React, Astro, JS/TS, and frontend. Expanding my skills with Postgres more & more these days. Scratch golfer. AuDHD. https://kyleshevlin.com

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · Jan 19

Hey new followers 👋🏻 let me offer an intro:

I'm a software dev, scratch golfer, occasional DIY/woodworker & I'm AuDHD.

While I'll post anything related to the above, most of my content is either coding or relatable, observational humor I use to cope with life.

Glad you're here & please be kind.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 6h

Nope, just supposed to wear 1 pair per day. Definitely sounded like a lot to me too.

I expected a number starting with a 3, not a 9.

Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 6h

What really grinds my gears is essentially I’m taxed thousands and thousands of dollars in my life time due to genetics I had no choice in having.

Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 6h

Eye doctor wants me to switch to daily contacts.

No problem, except it’s ~$1K for a 1-year supply and insurance won’t cover any of it for dailies.

That’s $3/day just for me to see.

I could pay it, but that’s absurd. I went with a different option insurance would cover.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 1d

Can concur

Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 1d

If you were in tech and decent at posting between like 2010 and 2018 it opened a lot of doors.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 1d

There was a time where I could drive 13 hours from college to home in one day, but now 6.5hrs is more than enough for me.

Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 1d

And we’re home! So thankful to not be driving anymore today. 😵‍💫

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

Vancouver is a remarkably diverse and international city. I have heard at least 6 languages other than English spoken in my vicinity on this trip.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

It was 12/10 easy. I’d eat it every day if I could.

Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

Then this evening I did another walk on the waterfront

A view across the bay to North Vancouver and the mountains.

A similar view across the bay and the north Vancouver mountains.

Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

Then we hit Granville island for lunch. Found some fun stuff in the stores

A shirt of a long haired cat as Gandalf the Grey

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

More from MOA

I don’t know what you would call this, but it’s like a mosaic of bright colors made of figures of people and flowers

A contemporary First Nations artwork piece an attribution

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

Then we went to the Museum of Anthropology. Incredible collection.

The whole time I was thinking, “Art is what we make when we have time. So few of us have time anymore.”

A intricate carving of two faces stacked vertically

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

Last day in Vancouver photo dump. Started the day getting an amazing brunch in Chinatown.

Sausage and two eggs on top of maple ricotta pancakes. It was perfect.

Sausage and 2 eggs a top two maple ricotta pancakes.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

That’s exactly what started me using them. Easier to use a layer for reset than worry about style sheet order with bundlers.

Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

Just started using layers recently. CSS has gotten so good in the last handful of years.

CSS-Tricks* @css-tricks.bsky.social · 2d

All thanks to none other than @miriam.codes!

Ashley Watson-Nolan @ashn.uk · 2d

If you want to fully dive down the rabbit-hole with CSS Layers, @css-tricks.bsky.social has (as ever) the go-to explainer css-tricks.com/css-cascade-...

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 2d

Another way to think about this is that in I’m guessing ~25 years, even with all the advances in information we have, they still haven’t made adequate accommodations for different people to succeed.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 3d

One upside to traveling internationally is I only have a vague concept of the exchange rate, but enough of one to know I’m getting what feels like a big discount on the price.

Makes spending money here a whole lot easier. 💳

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 3d

No one talks about the sheer exhausting task of figuring out what to do on vacation. Getting tired of making so many decisions.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 3d

Also went to the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, that was a lot of fun.

I didn’t take pictures from the bridge, too busy keeping my balance, but here are pictures from around the park.

A totem pole, roughly 25’ tall, it tells the story of a raven who gave us the stars and the moon

A view from the cliff walk back to the suspension bridge. The valley floor is about 230’ below

This tree who’s roots and trunk form a wildly acute angle hanging off the side of a cliff

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 3d

Wish we had time to go to the island this trip, but think it’ll have to wait for another time.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 3d

Took the tram up Grouse Mountain today. Pictures can’t do it justice. Pretty way to view Vancouver.

A view from almost 4000’ looking down at the city of Vancouver and beyond.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 3d

I kind of enjoyed raw dogging code on my last flight. It was really pleasant that I could tab complete Intellisense before an LLM tried inserting something wrong at the last second like it often does.

Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 4d

We’re here for a few more days. We don’t have any evening plans for tomorrow or Tuesday if you want to meet up.

Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 4d

Let me tell you what a genuine good use of AI would be:

We take every movie Jared Leto has ever been in and replace him with the face of literally any other person on the planet.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 4d

Taking in some soccer while we’re here

BC Place Stadium, looking thru the retractable roof