Gabriela Araujo Britto
@gabritto.bsky.social
software engineer @typescriptlang.org, master's student @ University of British Columbia.
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You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
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it's just weird how we phrase it as "remote doesn't work" despite all the evidence pointing otherwise, rather than an abject failure of management "i can only run teams if i can physically touch them" and "three hours of traffic and wearing headphones all day is peak productivity"
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
it's just weird how we phrase it as "remote doesn't work" despite all the evidence pointing otherwise, rather than an abject failure of management "i can only run teams if i can physically touch them" and "three hours of traffic and wearing headphones all day is peak productivity"
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Union to intersection type
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Union to intersection type
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Bacurau foi um DOCUMENTÁRIO meus amigos.
September 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Bacurau foi um DOCUMENTÁRIO meus amigos.
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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My new piece on the shift in "user centered design" with #AI in @fastcompany.com Hint: we are no longer the target audience. www.fastcompany.com/91397818/lar...
LLMs are the users now
Tech companies have shifted focus from designing for people to prioritizing algorithms.
www.fastcompany.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My new piece on the shift in "user centered design" with #AI in @fastcompany.com Hint: we are no longer the target audience. www.fastcompany.com/91397818/lar...
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it might be a bit boring but better tools for refactoring, type systems and lsp help but I want to know where are all instances of type X constructed, when are they sent across threads, where is field Y read etc. Things that let you plan and execute complex changes on legacy code.
July 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
it might be a bit boring but better tools for refactoring, type systems and lsp help but I want to know where are all instances of type X constructed, when are they sent across threads, where is field Y read etc. Things that let you plan and execute complex changes on legacy code.
another day of gopls not letting me do a rename because the file has errors when those errors would be fixed by the rename 🙂
August 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
another day of gopls not letting me do a rename because the file has errors when those errors would be fixed by the rename 🙂
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Anyone who knows the first thing about literary translation knows that direct translations are often impossible, and that creative, nuanced, sympathetic solutions must be found due to unfamiliar idioms, imagery, rhyming schemes, etc while balancing author motifs and style. AI simply can't do that.
Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!
The founders of independent publisher Bloodhound Books have launched a new AI fiction translation service, Globescribe.ai 👇 #BookSky
July 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Anyone who knows the first thing about literary translation knows that direct translations are often impossible, and that creative, nuanced, sympathetic solutions must be found due to unfamiliar idioms, imagery, rhyming schemes, etc while balancing author motifs and style. AI simply can't do that.
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Solving "UK Passport Application" with Haskell: jameshaydon.github.io/passport/
Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell
Using logic programming to beat the game
jameshaydon.github.io
June 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Solving "UK Passport Application" with Haskell: jameshaydon.github.io/passport/
I'm excited to be a part of this project!
youtu.be/UJfF3-13aFo?...
youtu.be/UJfF3-13aFo?...
A 10x Faster TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg | BRK116
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I'm excited to be a part of this project!
youtu.be/UJfF3-13aFo?...
youtu.be/UJfF3-13aFo?...
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Neon has acquired the North American rights to the political thriller The Secret Agent from writer and director Kleber Mendonça Filho.
Cannes: Neon Picks Up Wagner Moura’s ‘The Secret Agent’ Political Thriller
Neon has acquired the North American rights to the political thriller The Secret Agent from writer and director Kleber Mendonça Filho.
bit.ly
May 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Neon has acquired the North American rights to the political thriller The Secret Agent from writer and director Kleber Mendonça Filho.
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Funnily enough this comes at a time when layoffs are ripping up existing systems, flushing irreplaceable organizational knowledge down the drain. The answer these managers give is "just use AI" because they are not competent to rebuild the broken system, or even see it.
May 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Funnily enough this comes at a time when layoffs are ripping up existing systems, flushing irreplaceable organizational knowledge down the drain. The answer these managers give is "just use AI" because they are not competent to rebuild the broken system, or even see it.
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por que livro de fantasia tem tanta capa fubanga meudeus
May 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
por que livro de fantasia tem tanta capa fubanga meudeus
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once again I have received a book that I immediately wanted to drop because it has that nasty "soft touch" cover please stop making me touch the soft touch it is VILE (and doesn't shelve well!!!!!)
April 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
once again I have received a book that I immediately wanted to drop because it has that nasty "soft touch" cover please stop making me touch the soft touch it is VILE (and doesn't shelve well!!!!!)
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Do you think theres unrest among the vampire communities due to the degradation of the quality of human blood caused by microplastics?
March 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Do you think theres unrest among the vampire communities due to the degradation of the quality of human blood caused by microplastics?
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Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
celestemdavis.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:
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ainda sobre plágio, elegância, a história do livro do Scliar
e do Yann Martel.
www.mobylives.com/Yann_Martel....
e do Yann Martel.
www.mobylives.com/Yann_Martel....
YANN MARTEL GETS AN IDEA
www.mobylives.com
December 18, 2024 at 4:08 AM
ainda sobre plágio, elegância, a história do livro do Scliar
e do Yann Martel.
www.mobylives.com/Yann_Martel....
e do Yann Martel.
www.mobylives.com/Yann_Martel....
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Everyone is psyched about the Severance S2 trailer. But it's been 27 years since the 1st season and I don't remember a goddamn thing that happened & don't really feel like rewatching a whole season of a show so I can watch the 2nd. Nothing against Severance; this is true of half the streaming shows.
December 8, 2024 at 3:27 AM
Everyone is psyched about the Severance S2 trailer. But it's been 27 years since the 1st season and I don't remember a goddamn thing that happened & don't really feel like rewatching a whole season of a show so I can watch the 2nd. Nothing against Severance; this is true of half the streaming shows.
Sometimes type soundness is overrated. It's nice to have it, but ultimately what I want is for the type checker to catch my mistakes.
December 4, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Sometimes type soundness is overrated. It's nice to have it, but ultimately what I want is for the type checker to catch my mistakes.
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2014: the movie Idiocracy is basically a documentary
2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.
2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.
November 23, 2024 at 4:07 AM
2014: the movie Idiocracy is basically a documentary
2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.
2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.
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I hate how streaming has changed most of TV into a thing where you find something you like and it either gets canceled after two seasons or it takes so long for them to do new episodes that you forget it was on in the first place
November 8, 2024 at 4:51 PM
I hate how streaming has changed most of TV into a thing where you find something you like and it either gets canceled after two seasons or it takes so long for them to do new episodes that you forget it was on in the first place
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I'll remember the world before and after this PR: github.com/microsoft/Ty...
The new era of conditional types checking is coming in TypeScript 5.8!
The new era of conditional types checking is coming in TypeScript 5.8!
Narrow generic conditional and indexed access return types when checking return statements by gabritto · Pull Request #56941 · microsoft/TypeScript
Fixes #33912.
Fixes #33014.
Motivation
Sometimes we want to write functions whose return type is picked between different options, depending on the type of a parameter. For instance:
declare const ...
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November 6, 2024 at 9:23 AM
I'll remember the world before and after this PR: github.com/microsoft/Ty...
The new era of conditional types checking is coming in TypeScript 5.8!
The new era of conditional types checking is coming in TypeScript 5.8!
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2 tiras com comida - saíram na Folha @folha.com :
October 30, 2024 at 10:33 AM
2 tiras com comida - saíram na Folha @folha.com :
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Your boy is on the infrastructure beat again, sort of: I'm starting to dig into what the fuck is going on with all these POD paperbacks.
(s/o to @jomc.bsky.social, who tipped me off to this all happening in the first place)
lithub.com/have-you-pur...
(s/o to @jomc.bsky.social, who tipped me off to this all happening in the first place)
lithub.com/have-you-pur...
Have you purchased a weirdly low-quality paperback book lately? This may be why.
I work as the bookstore manager for a bookstore in the Hudson Valley and one of the things that means is that I handle not only the ordering of most of our books, but the unboxing of them as well. …
lithub.com
October 24, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Your boy is on the infrastructure beat again, sort of: I'm starting to dig into what the fuck is going on with all these POD paperbacks.
(s/o to @jomc.bsky.social, who tipped me off to this all happening in the first place)
lithub.com/have-you-pur...
(s/o to @jomc.bsky.social, who tipped me off to this all happening in the first place)
lithub.com/have-you-pur...