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meg 🌸
@cactusflamingo.bsky.social
software engineer, previously principal QA engineer. pedals and runs. honorary yorkshire lass. collector of ancient code scrolls 🧠🌶️

words: https://cactus-flamingo.ghost.io/
Thank you 🥰 Still not 100% but having a very chill day yesterday has helped massively. Today I’m going to settle down with a book for a while and see where the day takes me.
November 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The useful part of creating these end of day updates comes from being able to shove them all into the tool of choice and have it generate a summary every quarter of the work I’ve done. This should save me some effort come performance review season. If I need to update my CV, the info is there too.
October 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Since this post, I started posting a daily end of day update on Slack to summarise the work I’ve done, and yesterday it started saying I was a “QA Engineer and software developer” - I guess this highlights the importance of making your work visible in this new world of AI summaries.
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I saw a review for these knives which stated that the reviewer’s partner managed to chop the top of her finger off very easily with one of them 😅 I’ve been very careful as a result of this!
October 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Right? I am really looking forward to showing the next butternut squash who’s boss with these new knives, they feel dangerous.
October 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It feels so icky, I don’t want to publicly congratulate myself for doing my business as usual work which is expected of me 😂
October 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Like the living kind or the cleaning kind?
October 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Thank you so much ❤️ The dress brought me so much joy to wear, I just felt magical! It was super soft material too so it was mega comfy.
September 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Thanks so much ❤️
And it’s lovely that you did that for her! I was lucky that nobody seemed particularly invested in me being traditional, so I just went all out 😂
September 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Haha, thanks! Nice to have something to celebrate for once 😂
September 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is such a kind offer ❤️ I’ve got an unusually busy few weeks coming up but if the offer still stands afterward I’d love to take you up on this. Thank you!
August 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Honestly, your replies have helped me more than you know. Just knowing it’s possible with real life examples to get better is so comforting. Today we got back on a call and he was driving instead, which gave me a break. And I still felt anxious, even then.
August 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM