Megan Sullivan
@meganesulli.bsky.social
Software developer / educator. I learn things and then I write them down.
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🎥 twitch.tv/meganesulli
Just hit the credits on Hades II. What a great game!
October 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Just hit the credits on Hades II. What a great game!
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Them: So what have y'all been up to?
Me: Haha, you know. The usual.
The Usual:
Me: Haha, you know. The usual.
The Usual:
September 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Them: So what have y'all been up to?
Me: Haha, you know. The usual.
The Usual:
Me: Haha, you know. The usual.
The Usual:
I’ve been repurposing swag notebooks from tech companies as my journals for therapy.
So far, I’ve got one from ThoughtWorks and one from Sanity 😂
So far, I’ve got one from ThoughtWorks and one from Sanity 😂
September 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’ve been repurposing swag notebooks from tech companies as my journals for therapy.
So far, I’ve got one from ThoughtWorks and one from Sanity 😂
So far, I’ve got one from ThoughtWorks and one from Sanity 😂
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Playing The Witcher 3 as God intended*
*ignoring the main story to go on sidequests, pick flowers, and play Gwent
*ignoring the main story to go on sidequests, pick flowers, and play Gwent
August 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Playing The Witcher 3 as God intended*
*ignoring the main story to go on sidequests, pick flowers, and play Gwent
*ignoring the main story to go on sidequests, pick flowers, and play Gwent
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Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⬇️
What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid?
Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.
www.teenvogue.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⬇️
Finally getting back to stitching this beast again!
I started this one in 2020 but haven’t touched it much in the last few years. At this rate, I should finish it by… 2030 🤪
I started this one in 2020 but haven’t touched it much in the last few years. At this rate, I should finish it by… 2030 🤪
August 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Finally getting back to stitching this beast again!
I started this one in 2020 but haven’t touched it much in the last few years. At this rate, I should finish it by… 2030 🤪
I started this one in 2020 but haven’t touched it much in the last few years. At this rate, I should finish it by… 2030 🤪
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One of the most powerful tools in my toolbox is SVG. When combined with CSS and JavaScript, we can do some truly remarkable things. ✨
📝 I’ve just published a brand-new blog post that covers the most critical fundamentals. It’s chock full of interactive demos. 😄
Check it out:
📝 I’ve just published a brand-new blog post that covers the most critical fundamentals. It’s chock full of interactive demos. 😄
Check it out:
A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau
SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...
www.joshwcomeau.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
One of the most powerful tools in my toolbox is SVG. When combined with CSS and JavaScript, we can do some truly remarkable things. ✨
📝 I’ve just published a brand-new blog post that covers the most critical fundamentals. It’s chock full of interactive demos. 😄
Check it out:
📝 I’ve just published a brand-new blog post that covers the most critical fundamentals. It’s chock full of interactive demos. 😄
Check it out:
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Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
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It's Amazon Prime Day, which means it's yet another great day to stick it to Bezos and support indie bookstores instead!
If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!
If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!
July 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's Amazon Prime Day, which means it's yet another great day to stick it to Bezos and support indie bookstores instead!
If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!
If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!
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Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
This is the first conversation about how to implement AI that has actually given me some hope instead of sending me into an existential crisis.
Great insights, definitely give it a watch!
Great insights, definitely give it a watch!
I got to chat with the amazing Hazel Weakly all about how we're building AI tools backwards.
I can't tell you how much I love this nuanced take.
Check it out! Big thanks to @hazelweakly.me for chatting with me!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvrx...
I can't tell you how much I love this nuanced take.
Check it out! Big thanks to @hazelweakly.me for chatting with me!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvrx...
AI tools are deskilling developers (here's the solution) • feat. Hazel Weakly
YouTube video by Annie Sexton
www.youtube.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is the first conversation about how to implement AI that has actually given me some hope instead of sending me into an existential crisis.
Great insights, definitely give it a watch!
Great insights, definitely give it a watch!
Got to flex my teaching muscles at DevCon! I facilitated two sessions of a guided workshop about Workday Extend Pro features, including the AI Gateway.
Feeling energized by the conversations with students & grateful for the incredible team of educators and developers who made this event happen.
Feeling energized by the conversations with students & grateful for the incredible team of educators and developers who made this event happen.
June 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Got to flex my teaching muscles at DevCon! I facilitated two sessions of a guided workshop about Workday Extend Pro features, including the AI Gateway.
Feeling energized by the conversations with students & grateful for the incredible team of educators and developers who made this event happen.
Feeling energized by the conversations with students & grateful for the incredible team of educators and developers who made this event happen.
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If you look at the state of the world and start feeling like hope is pointless, I want to share this passage from @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's book LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU, from the chapter "Hope and Grief Can Coexist."
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...
June 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If you look at the state of the world and start feeling like hope is pointless, I want to share this passage from @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's book LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU, from the chapter "Hope and Grief Can Coexist."
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...
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AI has always promised to help people spend more time doing valuable work by automating the manual, repetitive, toilsome tasks so that software developers can be free to use their time on "something better".
That's not what's happening.
That's not what's happening.
The promise that wasn’t kept
AI is distracting us from creating real value. While we chase speed and automation, meaningful and human-centered work is getting left behind. Is this progress?
whitep4nth3r.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
AI has always promised to help people spend more time doing valuable work by automating the manual, repetitive, toilsome tasks so that software developers can be free to use their time on "something better".
That's not what's happening.
That's not what's happening.
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your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people
no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow
no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow
The upcoming Hogwarts Legacy 2 could potentially feature more characters from the Harry Potter books and movies.
Hogwarts Legacy 2 Could Feature Characters from the Books and Movies
The upcoming Hogwarts Legacy 2 could potentially feature more characters from the Harry Potter books and movies.
bit.ly
May 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people
no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow
no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow
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As someone who finds it hard to set priorities because I want to do everything and also do everything perfectly, it's good to have regular reminders that you have to set your priorities in life, like @hiroko.io's "You can't be a Straight A student in life, so pick 3":
You can't be a Straight A student in life, so pick 3
"Life isn't school- you can't be a Straight A student in all aspects of life. So pick 3 to prioritize."
buff.ly
February 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
As someone who finds it hard to set priorities because I want to do everything and also do everything perfectly, it's good to have regular reminders that you have to set your priorities in life, like @hiroko.io's "You can't be a Straight A student in life, so pick 3":
A timeline cleanser
February 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A timeline cleanser
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It is not the point of you to “scale.” You are not at scale.
If you are able to do something that helps one person, you helped one person, and that is more than there were before. If you are part of a community that helps people, you are contributing to helping people at scale.
If you are able to do something that helps one person, you helped one person, and that is more than there were before. If you are part of a community that helps people, you are contributing to helping people at scale.
January 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It is not the point of you to “scale.” You are not at scale.
If you are able to do something that helps one person, you helped one person, and that is more than there were before. If you are part of a community that helps people, you are contributing to helping people at scale.
If you are able to do something that helps one person, you helped one person, and that is more than there were before. If you are part of a community that helps people, you are contributing to helping people at scale.
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Welp. Apple snuck something dirty in our phones last night.
Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App
TOGGLE OFF.
You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡
Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App
TOGGLE OFF.
You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡
January 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Welp. Apple snuck something dirty in our phones last night.
Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App
TOGGLE OFF.
You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡
Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App
TOGGLE OFF.
You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡
Alright it's two months later and I've finished the first two games.
Time to restart the third!
Time to restart the third!
9 hours into The Witcher 3 and they’re asking me about character choices from the earlier games (which I didn’t play)…
So now I’ve downloaded the first two games to play as well 😅
So now I’ve downloaded the first two games to play as well 😅
January 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Alright it's two months later and I've finished the first two games.
Time to restart the third!
Time to restart the third!
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reminder to self: rest IS productive
January 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
reminder to self: rest IS productive
I wrote a tutorial on how I built this Shortcut, in case anyone wants to recreate it for themselves!
If you do, I'd love to hear what other things you're putting on your "how I want to spend my time" list.
meganesulli.com/blog/shortcu...
If you do, I'd love to hear what other things you're putting on your "how I want to spend my time" list.
meganesulli.com/blog/shortcu...
January 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I wrote a tutorial on how I built this Shortcut, in case anyone wants to recreate it for themselves!
If you do, I'd love to hear what other things you're putting on your "how I want to spend my time" list.
meganesulli.com/blog/shortcu...
If you do, I'd love to hear what other things you're putting on your "how I want to spend my time" list.
meganesulli.com/blog/shortcu...
One of my goals for 2025 is to spend less time binging YouTube videos. I made a Shortcut to help me be more intentional when I open the YouTube app on my phone.
December 29, 2024 at 6:27 AM
One of my goals for 2025 is to spend less time binging YouTube videos. I made a Shortcut to help me be more intentional when I open the YouTube app on my phone.
It’s been a hectic month so far, but I’m trying to get into the holiday spirit.
Hope everyone has a calm and restful new year! 🧡
Hope everyone has a calm and restful new year! 🧡
December 20, 2024 at 11:09 PM
It’s been a hectic month so far, but I’m trying to get into the holiday spirit.
Hope everyone has a calm and restful new year! 🧡
Hope everyone has a calm and restful new year! 🧡
December 19, 2024 at 10:59 PM