Heidi
@heidi2o.bsky.social
data, policy, and feelings
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Noise canceling headphones are probably the most important and usually only adaptive tech I use. I got the Sony WH-1000XM5 3 years ago and they died last month 😭 I’m trying the Sennheiser Momentum 4 this time
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Noise canceling headphones are probably the most important and usually only adaptive tech I use. I got the Sony WH-1000XM5 3 years ago and they died last month 😭 I’m trying the Sennheiser Momentum 4 this time
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become a systems thinker, they said
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
become a systems thinker, they said
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
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Terrible day to be literate
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Terrible day to be literate
So here's the thing with vibe coding when you don't actually know the language (typescript). I had an error on my static webpage generator that I gave to gemini - it generated a whole bunch of code to replace the config with. The actual solution is this one missing line...
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
So here's the thing with vibe coding when you don't actually know the language (typescript). I had an error on my static webpage generator that I gave to gemini - it generated a whole bunch of code to replace the config with. The actual solution is this one missing line...
Huzzah - got my French results back for reading and writing and got a C and B, so will be able to attempt the oral exam for the first time in the new year 🥳😅
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Huzzah - got my French results back for reading and writing and got a C and B, so will be able to attempt the oral exam for the first time in the new year 🥳😅
me finding out the trail mix I used in my lunch salad had a lot of chocolate chips mixed in after I dumped it on top of all the sesame dressing and kimchi I added in D:
September 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
me finding out the trail mix I used in my lunch salad had a lot of chocolate chips mixed in after I dumped it on top of all the sesame dressing and kimchi I added in D:
I'm trying to be more disciplined about keeping notes for knitting esp because I have been doing it so sporadically that it takes forever to pick projects back up after a break. Doing a complex cable project; putting all the screenshots and annotating the pdf using @obsidian.md was a great idea 🧶
September 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I'm trying to be more disciplined about keeping notes for knitting esp because I have been doing it so sporadically that it takes forever to pick projects back up after a break. Doing a complex cable project; putting all the screenshots and annotating the pdf using @obsidian.md was a great idea 🧶
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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
I have lost 2 weeks of my life to Evolve Idle pmotschmann.github.io/Evolve/
Evolve
pmotschmann.github.io
August 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have lost 2 weeks of my life to Evolve Idle pmotschmann.github.io/Evolve/
Noting handle change: I learned that you can get at cost domain + renewal from Cloudflare recently so I got a domain for $8, renewing at that price for 10 years domains.cloudflare.com
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August 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Noting handle change: I learned that you can get at cost domain + renewal from Cloudflare recently so I got a domain for $8, renewing at that price for 10 years domains.cloudflare.com
I must confess that I as a person born in Taiwan have started regularly eating and referring to spicy Doufunao as “Fern Brady’s Soup” (in a Scottish accent) since that episode of @taskmaster.tv
August 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I must confess that I as a person born in Taiwan have started regularly eating and referring to spicy Doufunao as “Fern Brady’s Soup” (in a Scottish accent) since that episode of @taskmaster.tv
Bases continues to be *chef's kiss*. My main use case for @obsidian.md right now is to keep track of my environmental scanning/research and the cards option have made the previously clunky dataview codeblock look so pretty and more usable for getting a quick overview 😍 #obsidianmd
August 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Bases continues to be *chef's kiss*. My main use case for @obsidian.md right now is to keep track of my environmental scanning/research and the cards option have made the previously clunky dataview codeblock look so pretty and more usable for getting a quick overview 😍 #obsidianmd
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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
In the face of stress, my brain is helpfully serving up the phrase "feeling cute, might get workforce adjusted later 😜"
August 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In the face of stress, my brain is helpfully serving up the phrase "feeling cute, might get workforce adjusted later 😜"
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Techbro nerd: Works for big tech, coded some insidious AI bullshit that's constantly spying on you, lowkey probably a fascist.
Linux nerd: Sometimes insufferably hyperfixated and pedantic, but ultimately just wants people to control their own devices and digital lives.
Know the difference!
Linux nerd: Sometimes insufferably hyperfixated and pedantic, but ultimately just wants people to control their own devices and digital lives.
Know the difference!
August 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Techbro nerd: Works for big tech, coded some insidious AI bullshit that's constantly spying on you, lowkey probably a fascist.
Linux nerd: Sometimes insufferably hyperfixated and pedantic, but ultimately just wants people to control their own devices and digital lives.
Know the difference!
Linux nerd: Sometimes insufferably hyperfixated and pedantic, but ultimately just wants people to control their own devices and digital lives.
Know the difference!
When you copy and paste a random quote from Hannah Arendt in as a placeholder to test a local random quote generator plug in and then you read back the quote... OOOF.
August 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
When you copy and paste a random quote from Hannah Arendt in as a placeholder to test a local random quote generator plug in and then you read back the quote... OOOF.
today's project: continue to get off the microsoft ecosystem and migrate from github over to codeberg.org
August 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
today's project: continue to get off the microsoft ecosystem and migrate from github over to codeberg.org
The devil has enough advocates.
August 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The devil has enough advocates.
I think I’ve fed every vampire in Ottawa with the amount of blood I’ve had drawn for tests in the last 2 months 😵💫 (just some preemptive diagnostic testing, nothing serious, mostly just miscommunication between healthcare institutions that resulted in more samples being needed actually 😅)
August 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I think I’ve fed every vampire in Ottawa with the amount of blood I’ve had drawn for tests in the last 2 months 😵💫 (just some preemptive diagnostic testing, nothing serious, mostly just miscommunication between healthcare institutions that resulted in more samples being needed actually 😅)
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Connecting all of the world’s people together so that they can be ground into a fine paste
August 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Connecting all of the world’s people together so that they can be ground into a fine paste
We love to see other people arrive at the same conclusion when all day is spent being asked “so what” and “why should I care”
This recent paper “argues that discussions about AI bias must move beyond only considering values to include ontology.” hai.stanford.edu/news/when-ai...
This recent paper “argues that discussions about AI bias must move beyond only considering values to include ontology.” hai.stanford.edu/news/when-ai...
When AI Imagines a Tree: How Your Chatbot’s Worldview Shapes Your Thinking | Stanford HAI
A new study on generative AI argues that addressing biases requires a deeper exploration of ontological assumptions, challenging the way we define fundamental concepts like humanity and connection.
hai.stanford.edu
August 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We love to see other people arrive at the same conclusion when all day is spent being asked “so what” and “why should I care”
This recent paper “argues that discussions about AI bias must move beyond only considering values to include ontology.” hai.stanford.edu/news/when-ai...
This recent paper “argues that discussions about AI bias must move beyond only considering values to include ontology.” hai.stanford.edu/news/when-ai...
I'm speaking at a thing! www.linkedin.com/posts/wei-ju...
Come learn about the wide range (not just IT!) of careers in #GCDigital and share with someone who would benefit! | Wei-Ju (Heidi) Wang
Come learn about the wide range (not just IT!) of careers in #GCDigital and share with someone who would benefit!
I will be on the English session of "Wired for Success: Careers in Digital" at 1pm to...
www.linkedin.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I'm speaking at a thing! www.linkedin.com/posts/wei-ju...
How my first day heading back into the office after an extended long weekend has started 🙂↔️
August 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
How my first day heading back into the office after an extended long weekend has started 🙂↔️
More on my semantic modeling experiments
www.linkedin.com/posts/wei-ju...
www.linkedin.com/posts/wei-ju...
Last week I talked about how I am currently puzzling through what a semantic layer might look like in the context of GC data architecture - how might we translate the thousands of pages of the… | Wei-...
Last week I talked about how I am currently puzzling through what a semantic layer might look like in the context of GC data architecture - how might we translate the thousands of pages of the various...
www.linkedin.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
More on my semantic modeling experiments
www.linkedin.com/posts/wei-ju...
www.linkedin.com/posts/wei-ju...