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Stephanie Tuerk
@stephanietuerk.net
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I design and develop interfaces for data. Past lives in arch/history of arch. Generally interested in: ∩ of data/image/language; history of most things; frontend dev/web/TS; learning; dad jokes. Camberville, MA
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 3h
Things that are kind of cute and endearing:

When someone in Oct 2025 tried to reassure you about the future being like, look at the past 10 years -- bad thing has never happened!
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 5h
At the same time, it would be hard to convince me that the critique of positivism or whatever has like, led design to some great, alternative place.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 5h
It's not all terrible. The development of nuance in thought over the course of the 20th Century is, all in all, probably something to celebrate. And that kind of entails a more tempered thinking about how we can change the world.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 5h
Remembered the Athens Charter and CIAM the other day (most of this stuff has been removed from my brain's RAM at this point) and was like, could you imagine that happening now?!?!!!!?!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_...
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Andy Budd @andybudd.bsky.social · 5h
www.ft.com/content/e637...
Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away
www.ft.com
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David C. Brock @dcbrock.bsky.social · 5h
My oral history interview with Ken Thompson -- of Unix, C, Go, computer chess, and other fame -- for the Computer History Museum and the ACM is now online!
computerhistory.org/blog/a-compu...
A Computing Legend Speaks
Ken Thompson, one of the foremost programmers and computer scientists of the last 50 years, shares stories about his life and career in a newly released oral history.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 5h
Yes, and....feels like a good time to say that if I can ever be of service to mutuals here (via like, a 1:1 meeting) or you just think it would be super great to talk, I'm down for that! (DM!)
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 1d
Is the best part of going away coming back and seeing what is way too familiar to you with new eyes?

Well, actually it definitely is not, but it's still a nice, temporary side benefit.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 1d
Yes, completely!

There are like 10 things listed in the RQ docs that are followed with "if you want to handle these yourself...uh. good luck!" And I probably experienced 8 of them. I definitely learned more by encountering them...but maybe also could have stopped earlier for my own well-being.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 2d
Also while I'm confessing I bought $30 worth of salt/salmiak licorice from Duty Free in Helsinki.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 2d
Life update: I am doing a learning project in React and for a while i really wanted to avoid higher-level libraries so that I could really grapple with the fundamentals/React itself.

I have given in and just installed React Query. :)
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 5d
In conclusion: the world may be fucked, but travel is still amazing. Glad to have gotten to know this region a bit!
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 5d
But the prices here are apparently very very high compared to salaries (food is the same price as a major US metro) and ppl feel they can barely afford it anymore.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 5d
And 4. (Could keep going but I'll stop :)) is there anywhere in the world where people are optimistic right now? From the outside, Tallinn truly looks like a smart, walkable urbanism dream.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 5d
3. What a time to be going to all of these "Museum of Occupation"s (etc), which many post-Soviet countries have. In the Baltics they are also ab Nazi occupation as well. One needs to view these w/ a critical thinking hat on, but there is certainly a new resonance for me at the moment.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 5d
Some thoughts from the Tallinn airport:

1. Truly not ready to go back to the US.

2. Odd to me how much Tallinn reminds me of Singapore -- ungodly clean, very safe (8 yr old kids without parents everywhere), very e-convenient. Also uncomfortable weather for the most part (though still nice now).
A picture of a residential area in Tallinn, with kids walking to school, a wood house, and also some more modern buildings as well.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 7d
1. Hi fellow MA person
2. I feel like the people of MA will fight before we let MB get shitty. It is truly the gem of the state!
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 8d
In any case, I'm in Tallinn and wondering what the future of urbanism is beyond breweries, food trucks, and Nth wave coffee places. Also perpetually jealous of the number of art/performance events per day in Europe.
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 8d
Bluesky, but for things that are just interesting to people, rather than topical.

(Yes indeed I AM hoping for a return of ye olde internet. Also, I recognize how this is difficult in the world we live in.)
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 8d
Letting you regular morning news podcast routine run while on vacation: 0/10 do not recommend
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 11d
In Riga and actually shed a tear over the Art Nouveau architecture here.

The first one is by Mikhail Eisenstein, Sergei's father. Other two I don't know...the little green guy is among the more quotidien of the AN buildings here but checkout those little I-beams! (And how the web is scalloped)
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15d
When I think back on early COVID, that level of response/functioning feels absolutely unthinkable now. Like some idyllic 1950s dream of "we all came together and did the best we could."
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15d
(Personally I can't decide if this feels worse than 2020. I think I am more personally caught up in 2025 shit due to it having huge impacts on my professional life in multiple dimensions, but hard to tell. Spring 2020 felt pretty bad but already the horrors of 2025 have persisted longer than 2020?)
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15d
Is this the worst year for the United States in your lifetime? Genuinely curious what people think.

Also does this *feel* the worst to you?
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 18d
Caught up with a friend the other day and I was like, "thoughts and prayers for 2026."
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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 18d
Was thinking about the beginning of COVID the other day for like 3 seconds I was temporarily convinced that couldn't have been the first Trump admin because in retrospect/comparison it felt very orderly and well managed. (!!!!)
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