Melissa Young
@techsassy.me
Engineering leadership. Journalism roots. Always rolling for initiative. Surrounded by gamers, computers & kids. (She/They)♠️🤍💜
Media, Technology and Teams @ Vox Media
Currently:
🎻 Learning cello
🏋🏽♀️ Making gains
🏫 PTA Board Member
Media, Technology and Teams @ Vox Media
Currently:
🎻 Learning cello
🏋🏽♀️ Making gains
🏫 PTA Board Member
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Melissa Young
@techsassy.me
· Nov 14
A bit about me for recent followers:
📰 Former journalist & tech blogger
🤖 Developer
⌨️ Engineering Mgr/Director/VP
🧶 Knitter
🎻 Beginning cellist
👯💃Mom of identical twins + 1
🇵🇷 Puerto Rican
🤠 Texan living in NoVA
♠️💜 Ace
😱 Love horror, trek, sci-fi, & trashy reality tv
♑ sun, ♉ rising, ♋ moon
📰 Former journalist & tech blogger
🤖 Developer
⌨️ Engineering Mgr/Director/VP
🧶 Knitter
🎻 Beginning cellist
👯💃Mom of identical twins + 1
🇵🇷 Puerto Rican
🤠 Texan living in NoVA
♠️💜 Ace
😱 Love horror, trek, sci-fi, & trashy reality tv
♑ sun, ♉ rising, ♋ moon
I've learned that I knit the way I code and how to use that to motivate me. Just do things. Experiment. Don't overly plan or try to be too clever. Adapt. Be organic. Try again.
December 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I've learned that I knit the way I code and how to use that to motivate me. Just do things. Experiment. Don't overly plan or try to be too clever. Adapt. Be organic. Try again.
Warning: This is about to become a knitting-while-watching-horror-movies account.
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Warning: This is about to become a knitting-while-watching-horror-movies account.
Child got new sweater. Child gets hole in new sweater.
Can I fix it?
Can I fix it?
December 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Child got new sweater. Child gets hole in new sweater.
Can I fix it?
Can I fix it?
Oh no. I bought a knitting pattern.
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Oh no. I bought a knitting pattern.
Reposted by Melissa Young
If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.
Home from school and it continues...
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Home from school and it continues...
Just spent the last hour introducing my 10yo-s to Google AI Studio and building games with them using Gemini 3. Had to finally cut them off for bedtime since it's a school night.
Absolutely a watershed moment for them. And for me.
Absolutely a watershed moment for them. And for me.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Just spent the last hour introducing my 10yo-s to Google AI Studio and building games with them using Gemini 3. Had to finally cut them off for bedtime since it's a school night.
Absolutely a watershed moment for them. And for me.
Absolutely a watershed moment for them. And for me.
You know who needs to be on SNL this weekend. Make it happen.
miss piggy from the muppet show is making a funny face with her eyes closed .
Alt: a zoom in to the angry eyes of miss piggy from the muppet show
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
You know who needs to be on SNL this weekend. Make it happen.
Tonight's winner.
[Starship Troopers voice] Would you like to know less?
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Tonight's winner.
Reposted by Melissa Young
Planning to watch Ken Burns’ new film on the Revolutionary War?
Give to your local PBS station, which recently lost its federal funding.
Donate as little as $60 & you will become eligible for the PBS Passport so you can watch Burns’ film & EVERYTHING ELSE PBS OFFERS, anytime, anywhere.
www.pbs.org
Give to your local PBS station, which recently lost its federal funding.
Donate as little as $60 & you will become eligible for the PBS Passport so you can watch Burns’ film & EVERYTHING ELSE PBS OFFERS, anytime, anywhere.
www.pbs.org
a drawing of an american flag with the words gonna hold a revolution now king below it
Alt: a drawing of an american flag with the words gonna hold a revolution now king below it
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Planning to watch Ken Burns’ new film on the Revolutionary War?
Give to your local PBS station, which recently lost its federal funding.
Donate as little as $60 & you will become eligible for the PBS Passport so you can watch Burns’ film & EVERYTHING ELSE PBS OFFERS, anytime, anywhere.
www.pbs.org
Give to your local PBS station, which recently lost its federal funding.
Donate as little as $60 & you will become eligible for the PBS Passport so you can watch Burns’ film & EVERYTHING ELSE PBS OFFERS, anytime, anywhere.
www.pbs.org
If I donate more to @pbs.org, can I get streaming access to new Ken Burns projects before the evening? Sunday morning coffee is my primetime.
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If I donate more to @pbs.org, can I get streaming access to new Ken Burns projects before the evening? Sunday morning coffee is my primetime.
Great, Now watching...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great, Now watching...
Can't get out of my head how much Guy in Talamasca looks like Schmendrick the Magician.
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Can't get out of my head how much Guy in Talamasca looks like Schmendrick the Magician.
DEL FRANKENSTEIN TIME
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
DEL FRANKENSTEIN TIME
Winamp skin Bluesky themes
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Winamp skin Bluesky themes
Hey, what if I told you instead of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for concert tour tickets you could instead pay $30ish bucks and listen to quality jazz live any day of the week.
She says while listening to quality jazz on a Monday night.
She says while listening to quality jazz on a Monday night.
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Hey, what if I told you instead of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for concert tour tickets you could instead pay $30ish bucks and listen to quality jazz live any day of the week.
She says while listening to quality jazz on a Monday night.
She says while listening to quality jazz on a Monday night.
Laughing, crying after every episode of the new season of The Diplomat— now a high fantasy world.
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Laughing, crying after every episode of the new season of The Diplomat— now a high fantasy world.
If you recommend something to me, I will absolutely check it out.
Unless I already know you have bad taste.
And even then, I might give you a chance to redeem yourself.
Unless I already know you have bad taste.
And even then, I might give you a chance to redeem yourself.
October 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you recommend something to me, I will absolutely check it out.
Unless I already know you have bad taste.
And even then, I might give you a chance to redeem yourself.
Unless I already know you have bad taste.
And even then, I might give you a chance to redeem yourself.
Spooky season family movie night: Cube
a group of men are standing next to each other in a dark room with a green light behind them .
Alt: Three people stand in a glowing green room and a man sits up into view from the bottom and says "this room is green"
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Spooky season family movie night: Cube
Research! Science! Health!
Study finds COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sparks immune response to fight cancer - UF Health
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived…
ufhealth.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Research! Science! Health!
These days is someone tries to gaslight me for being hyperbolic, I start laughing maniacally and don't stop.
October 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
These days is someone tries to gaslight me for being hyperbolic, I start laughing maniacally and don't stop.