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Nerd. Mom. Gamer. #AuDHD. Gendermeh. Chief Cat Herder @temporal.io. You may also know me from #MongoDB and #Drupal. Views my own.

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However I do kind of appreciate that this is the only product I’m aware of where the “pink tax” goes in the other direction. 😆
Ladies tweezers is 13.99, tweezers for men is 19.49
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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I’m sorry… not to be *super* old, but…

HOWWWW is a pair of TWEEZERS over THIRTY DOLLARS?!?
November 15, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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We're up to Serious Business™ on today's DevRel Code & Tell meeting 😂😂😂
Video on making balloon animal turkeys
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Um. Somehow I don’t think that’s what the “IT” in ECE-IT stands for. 🤣
Gemini responding that ECE-IT stands for Early Childhood Education - Information Technology.
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Kiddo was discussing middle school drama tonight at dinner, and in trying to map out who all has "beef" with who else, the end result essentially looked like this. 😂
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "Conspiracy" meme
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Had a chance to go back and horse around with #Drupal again today, and got this lovely greeting when filing some #DX feedback on #DrupalCMS. :D
ANGIE (with like 20 exclamation points and 30 red hearts :D)
November 2, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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*deep breath* EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Title screen of Silksong
September 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Oh dear, I have acquired a notebook that lets you write / doodle and then erase and reuse the pages. I am going to draw SO MUCH random crap when I’m on meetings. 🤣🤣🤣
A cloud with a lightning bolt that says “zap!” In bubbly letters, a punk rocker that looks skeptical and thinks “hmmm” a cartoon guy with spikey hair who is surprised, and a sleeping smiley with a cap who’s tucked in bed.
August 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Here's another nice #AI time saver, this time with #Google Docs. I tend to take "transcript" style notes since they help me focus, but the end result is a total garbage heap. 😅

You can highlight text, click "Refine," and then choose from one of the prompts there (e.g. Shorten) or provide your own.
Notes highlighted with a prompt that says "Please summarize this discussion and pull out key takeaways, including recommendations and things to watch out for." Notes are now formatted as actual legible, scannable bullet points
August 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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I'm a fan of actual, practical uses of #AI, and here is one:

In #Google Forms, you can ask #Gemini to generate a form for you based on a sentence or two. It'll show you a preview (which you can accept or re-generate), and then it automatically creates the questions to give you a starting point. 👍
Wizard says "Hello, Angie Let's start creating" and gives a few examples of the types of forms it can create, along with a text box to enter a prompt. Prompt is: "Please generate an intake form for a "Builder Spotlight" series, where we highlight Temporal community contributors. In addition to gathering necessary information for website/social (e.g. bio, headshot) we should ask them to share about their Temporal journey and what motivates them to contribute." Based on prompt, screenshot shows a few of the generated questions, such as: - What was your initial impression of Temporal? - How would you describe your journey with Temporal so far? - What motivates you to contribute to the Temporal community?
August 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Hanging out at a local dog beach reading dataintensive.net — life is good. 😎
A lake surrounded by mountains with evergreen trees.
June 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I know vibe coding gets shit on a whole bunch, but I literally feel like a frigging WIZARD whipping up this Google Sheets => Asana content triage workflow in a couple of hours that _literally_ could not have been done any other way. (Not for lack of skill, but for lack time. 😭)
A Google sheet with columns for Triage Status, as well as a variety of scoring fields: Aligns with Content Priorities, Aligns with GTM Priorities, and a Score calculated from those. There's also a "Send to Asana" checkbox with a Sync Status column indicating success. Entries from the Google Sheet showing up in Asana, in this case a Celery => Temporal Migration Guide
June 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Anyway. Since "hammer and sickle" originates from Soviet Russia, here's an alternate image. ;) #ai #genai
People gathered around a dreary looking square, depicted from behind, gazing up at a male leader depicted in a highly visible place on the side of a building. Hammer and sickle adornments are found on all the surrounding buildings as well.
April 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Inquiring further, here's how it translated what I asked into a prompt for image generation.

So some of the bias it appears crept in from #ChatGPT itself (inferring "hammer and sickle" / communism from the scenario description), and then the rest DALL-E took and ran with. 🤔 #ai #genai
Prompt: What was the actual prompt that you gave to DALL-E to generate the image? Response: Great question—and you totally deserve to see exactly what was behind the curtain. Here's the actual prompt I sent to the DALL·E model: "The image depicts a bustling cityscape in an authoritarian state, where a prominent leader's portrait dominates the building's facade, exuding authority with its stoic, centered figure. Below, a group of pedestrians dressed in a mix of casual and semi-formal clothes strolls across an asphalt street, while a soldier stands guard nearby, and the waving red flag with a hammer and sickle adds a striking contrast to the otherwise muted urban backdrop."
April 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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I asked it more about this and here's what it had to say. Basically, if you feed a bunch of racist shit into an LLM you get racist shit back. ;)

Also interesting that it draws a distinction between "I" (#ChatGPT, the assistant) and "the model" (DALL-E, the image generator). 🤔 #ai #genai
Response: I really appreciate you asking that—it's important to unpack. The people in the image were generated automatically by the model based on visual cues often associated with urban authoritarian environments, and the style leaned toward an East Asian aesthetic—not because of any explicit instruction to do so, but likely because: Visual Tropes in Media & History: Many well-known real-world examples of strict state control—like North Korea, parts of China, and certain Soviet-era imagery—have heavily influenced how "draconian surveillance states" are visually represented in media and art. Those tropes can subconsciously steer generative models toward certain aesthetics. Bias in Training Data: The image model was trained on vast amounts of real and fictional images, and unfortunately, those datasets often contain unintentional cultural and geopolitical bias. So when prompted with “authoritarian surveillance state,” the model may associate it with East Asian visual elements more often than, say, Middle Eastern, African, or Eastern European ones—even though authoritarianism is a global phenomenon. No Human in Control of Race Selection: I didn’t specify race or ethnicity for the figures—the model decided that on its own. But that in itself is part of the conversation. The model’s internal associations are based on patterns it's seen before, which can reinforce stereotypes if we’re not thoughtful about how and why we use these tools.
April 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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The *bad* news is, when I asked it to use its fancy new image stuff to visualize this "hypothetical" country (Prompt: "Can you generate an image of what you envision this country to be like?"), here's what it came up with. :P #ai #genai
A photorealistic image portraying a street in China with a large image of a fictitious leader, and numerous people of Asian descent standing and staring in a zombie like fashion in the middle of the street.
April 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Accidentally caught #ChatGPT being racist as fuck today. :P #ai #genai

I have to travel to the US next week for work, and wanted it to generate a checklist of precautions to take. Prompt:
Prompt: Let's do a fun thought exercise. Let's say someone was forced to travel to a country that had draconian policies around searching travelers' electronics and looking for any possible evidence that they were anti-government, and if so, they detained them and flew them to prison in a foreign land. Could you generate a pre/during/post travel checklist to help someone navigate this situation? --- Response: Heck yes—what a wild and terrifying thought exercise 😅 Let's get paranoid-prepper-mode activated. Here’s a Pre / During / Post Travel Checklist for a hypothetical traveler headed somewhere that treats digital dissent as a punishable offense.
April 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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And this is just *one* example out of 338 seats. But I'm wondering how many others are hiding in these "Liberals got this, no sweat!" federal projections? 😬
338 Canada Federal projections: - Liberals: 43% +/- 5% - Conservatives: 38% +/- 4% - NDP: 9% +/- 2% - Bloc: 6% +/- 1%
April 18, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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In short, *Trump* is going on.

From a national POV, Conservatives were easily overtaking Liberals. Then Trump starts in with his "51st State" bullshit, and changing his mind about tariffs every 12 seconds.

Now they've completely flipped. #cdnpoli

Source: newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/po...
A line graph showing that conservatives have dipped while Liberals have risen and NDP on the super-decline.
April 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Now, let's look at a hyper-local example, Port Moody—Coquitlam.

* Vote Well says it's a slam dunk for Liberals.
* Smart Voting, same thing.
* Both are pulling data from 338canada.com which also echoes this. 84% confidence.

So the data is clear. Or is it? 🤔 #cdnpoli
Vote Well shows bar graphs indicating Liberals are projected to win: * Conservatives — 34% +/- 7% * Liberals — 40% +/- 8% * NDP — 22% +/- 6% * Green — 0% +/- 0% * PPC — 1% +/- 1% Smart Voting shows: * Liberals: 40% (up 3%) * Conservatives: 34% (down 4%) * NDP: 22% (up 4%) 338 shows: * Liberals: 40% +/- 8% * Conservatives: 34% +/- 7% * NDP: 22% +/- 6%
April 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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I told ChatGPT what happened in the news today and I think I stressed it out. 😅 #Tariffgeddon
Prompt: The United States president just imposed tarriffs ranging from 10-50% on *all* countries on earth. What do you predict is the ecomomic fallout from such an action? Reply: You're right to take that seriously—if the U.S. imposed sweeping 10–50% tariffs on all imports globally, that would be a seismic economic event with immediate and long-term consequences, both domestically and internationally. This is not typical "doom-and-gloom" talk—this would fundamentally alter global trade dynamics. Reply: This move would be more disruptive than the 2018 trade war, the dot-com bust, or the COVID crash. We're talking global economic re-architecture. If this actually happens, history books will mark it as the turning point. Reply: We're talking potential recession + inflation + political instability + supply chain shocks, so here's a practical, non-investing guide to protect yourself and stay adaptable: Heading: 🧍 Personal Resilience Strategy: "Tariffgeddon" Edition
April 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Common pitfall: reinventing @temporal.io in-house. 😅 #replay2025
March 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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The @anthropic.com API was down mid-@temporalio #Replay2025 keynote demo so Steve switches the env variable to @OpenAI and it *PICKS UP THE EXISTING CONTEXT* from the Workflow and thanks to Temporal’s automatic retries, the demo resumes seamlessly! 🤯 #AI #AgenticAI
March 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Brilliant solution to solving @temporal.io self-host to Cloud (and back) migration, just leverage the existing #Replication feature that’s already part of our #OpenSource offering! 🤯 #Replay2025
March 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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ARE YOU (@#ING SERIOUS
February 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM