Ali
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aliglenesk.bsky.social
Ali
@aliglenesk.bsky.social
senior software engineer👩🏼‍💻
runner 🏃🏼‍♀️
dog and human parent🌱
founder at wrceastbay.org & creator of strollerstats.com
Spent a few hours yesterday writing automation scripts in Python to better manage membership for our run club in the freemium version of our collaboration platform of choice. Not naming it bc probably not allowed, but dang they make it really hard to manage members YoY without paying the big bucks!
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Added a hall of fame to stroller stats today. Still would like to calculate this data via a background job or add caching but for now this adds some spice for anyone tracking their stroller miles🌶️🔥https://www.strollerstats.com/hall-of-fame
October 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Spent the first few weeks of parental leave building a mobile app to assist behavior analysts working in public schools conducting observation and interview sessions. Was fun to get my hands into React Native again after a few years break, and to experiment more coding in partnership with AI 💫
October 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
After nearly two decades as a supporter of the BDS movement, it is meaningful to see this action by @microsoft.com Change is possible and may more companies follow suit.
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Created a chrome extension to enable quicker navigation to github issues: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nav-t...
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June 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Updated strollerstats.com this week to include support for kilometers mode and for tracking partial distance with an activity🚀
Stroller Stats
Always wished for strava stroller mode? Use stroller stats with strava to track your stroller walking and running miles
strollerstats.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
As a civic technologist myself, have to say this is worth a read:
Hey, somebody registered 18F.org. It has "A letter to the American people." 18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Evening coding after the work coding✌🏼
January 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM