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Amie Kuttruff
@amiekuttruff.bsky.social
computer person, dog mom, violinist, knitter, modular synth + ableton n00b
PDX ❤️🌹🌈
www.amiekuttruff.com
The extent to which software developers are craftspeople and not automatons cannot be overstated.
January 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Listen for the deep breath that Rev. Budde takes before delivering the bravest thing I’ve heard all day ❤️🙏

youtu.be/BBg2RkjAmS0
"May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President..."
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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January 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reposted by Amie Kuttruff
This is a really great post by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com. It's been weird to me when I was at MSFT and now ex-MSFT how much of "bay area culture" development is deeply invested in the Microsoft tech stack yet convinced they're not newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/microsofts...
Microsoft’s developer tools roots
Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech.
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reposted by Amie Kuttruff
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Reposted by Amie Kuttruff
Been telling y'all this for 3 years. Even when y'all side-eyed, unfollowed, and blocked me 🙃
Bluesky is proof that cryptocurrency isn't a core tenant of decentralization. The team demonstrated extreme levels of pragmatism by leveraging new and existing technologies to produce something people actually use.
November 19, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Did you know that Portland has a synth library? It does!! And guess what, it needs your help 👉
November 19, 2024 at 4:20 AM
It already took some Xanax, a glass of red wine, and the promise of several Alaska Airlines cheese plates to get me on an airplane. Between this and the Boeing shenanigans, you will have to put me under general anesthesia to ever fly again.
Oh. Oh, WOW, so we all are going to die on planes. That’s how we go. Well, there’s comfort in knowing in advance. I shall die as I lived with American Airlines Platinum Pro status.

Bury me in the wig Whitney wore in the music video for “It’s Not Right, but It’s Okay.”
Trump picks a second Fox host to join his Cabinet, with Sean Duffy for Transportation
The president-elect said he would nominate Duffy, who first gained notoriety on MTV's "The Real World," to succeed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
www.nbcnews.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Congrats ‪@claudistics.bsky.social‬!
November 18, 2024 at 5:23 PM