Vicky Harp
@vickyharp.com
Product person, recently ex-Microsoft. Dev experiences, Al, data. Helper of experts. She/Her. Black Lives Matter.
This meeting could have been a riot.
This meeting could have been a riot.
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Macbeth: SHIT
February 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Macbeth: SHIT
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How many dogs do you have to find to offset selling out your neighbors to ICE?
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
How many dogs do you have to find to offset selling out your neighbors to ICE?
Did Microsoft just run a Superbowl ad implying using Copilot to make hiring decisions?
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Did Microsoft just run a Superbowl ad implying using Copilot to make hiring decisions?
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Trying to help kiddo set up VR link with Meta Quest and it's buggy as shit. Companies are laying off workers and just letting products rot in full view.
February 5, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Trying to help kiddo set up VR link with Meta Quest and it's buggy as shit. Companies are laying off workers and just letting products rot in full view.
Pinterest says "there's a clear line between constructive debate and behavior that's obstructionist."
.... obstructing what, exactly?
.... obstructing what, exactly?
Nothing says the beatings will continue until moral improves like laying off the people who built a tool to track layoffs at the company.
Pinterest CEO rebukes, fires 'obstructionist' employees who created tool to track layoffs
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready lashed out at staffers who created an internal tool to track layoffs at the company, and fired those involved.
www.cnbc.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Pinterest says "there's a clear line between constructive debate and behavior that's obstructionist."
.... obstructing what, exactly?
.... obstructing what, exactly?
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Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Online search logic is all "I see you are looking for a bass clarinet to rent, so maybe you would like a French horn to purchase?"
January 29, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Online search logic is all "I see you are looking for a bass clarinet to rent, so maybe you would like a French horn to purchase?"
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i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
January 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
"[...] having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down [...] The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I'm sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:50 PM
"[...] having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down [...] The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I'm sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."
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Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
January 27, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
No matter how many times I tell LinkedIn to stop, it keeps showing me recruitment ads for CBP.
January 26, 2026 at 11:30 PM
No matter how many times I tell LinkedIn to stop, it keeps showing me recruitment ads for CBP.
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Microsoft has confirmed it will hand over BitLocker encryption recovery keys to the FBI. You definitely should not be accepting Microsoft’s default of storing BitLocker keys in the cloud when signing into Windows with an MS account www.theverge.com/news/867244/...
Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data
Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.
www.theverge.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Microsoft has confirmed it will hand over BitLocker encryption recovery keys to the FBI. You definitely should not be accepting Microsoft’s default of storing BitLocker keys in the cloud when signing into Windows with an MS account www.theverge.com/news/867244/...
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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
I don't know how I would navigate these uncertain times without the Schwab Investing Insights newsletter.
January 21, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I don't know how I would navigate these uncertain times without the Schwab Investing Insights newsletter.
We are collectively getting to enjoy the experience of software after companies get rid of those pesky PMs, which is probably why my grocery app just interrupted me after I had finished a search and was about to add something to my cart. It was a modal dialog to tell me I could have used AI earlier.
January 18, 2026 at 4:19 PM
We are collectively getting to enjoy the experience of software after companies get rid of those pesky PMs, which is probably why my grocery app just interrupted me after I had finished a search and was about to add something to my cart. It was a modal dialog to tell me I could have used AI earlier.
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If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
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A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
January 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
Meanwhile it feels like their search functionality has regressed 10 years. I was looking for my museum of flight membership information and it was like "Oh you mean your Costco membership? How about this flight confirmation your brother forwarded you? Here's a Seattle Times morning brief from 2019."
Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI. The new AI Inbox replaces the traditional list of emails with a personalized summary of what to do and what to catch up on. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/857883/...
Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI
AI Mode but for Gmail.
www.theverge.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Meanwhile it feels like their search functionality has regressed 10 years. I was looking for my museum of flight membership information and it was like "Oh you mean your Costco membership? How about this flight confirmation your brother forwarded you? Here's a Seattle Times morning brief from 2019."
I was mentally making a grocery list and offhandedly remarked to my spouse "you don't really care for yogurt, do you?"
We looked at each other for a beat with dawning realization before their response: "....it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth..."
We looked at each other for a beat with dawning realization before their response: "....it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth..."
January 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I was mentally making a grocery list and offhandedly remarked to my spouse "you don't really care for yogurt, do you?"
We looked at each other for a beat with dawning realization before their response: "....it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth..."
We looked at each other for a beat with dawning realization before their response: "....it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth..."
Every local arts calendar:
- 10 events per page
- Takes 5 seconds to load next page
- Infinite page count because it includes recurring events
- Series events repeated on page (nightly for 14 nights? That's a page and a half right there)
- Pages include noise like rehearsals and donor galas
- 10 events per page
- Takes 5 seconds to load next page
- Infinite page count because it includes recurring events
- Series events repeated on page (nightly for 14 nights? That's a page and a half right there)
- Pages include noise like rehearsals and donor galas
January 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Every local arts calendar:
- 10 events per page
- Takes 5 seconds to load next page
- Infinite page count because it includes recurring events
- Series events repeated on page (nightly for 14 nights? That's a page and a half right there)
- Pages include noise like rehearsals and donor galas
- 10 events per page
- Takes 5 seconds to load next page
- Infinite page count because it includes recurring events
- Series events repeated on page (nightly for 14 nights? That's a page and a half right there)
- Pages include noise like rehearsals and donor galas
IOT device makers need to get a grip.
This is a *meat thermometer.* Why would I need to log in?
This is a *meat thermometer.* Why would I need to log in?
January 3, 2026 at 12:52 AM
IOT device makers need to get a grip.
This is a *meat thermometer.* Why would I need to log in?
This is a *meat thermometer.* Why would I need to log in?