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@sliminality
I want to talk to you about the affect and aesthetics of computing.
San Francisco, she/her
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    Dec 13, 2025
    My talk "Concrete syntax matters, actually" from the Topos Institute Colloquium is now available! I think it's some of my best work yet
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    Apr 4, 2024
    it's really sad that this is the last month you'll be able to fill out the entire stripe ghost card flow by spamming 42424242424
    Payment modal titled "Change your payment method". Card number is 4242 4242 4242 4242, expiration is 04/24, CVC is 424, country is United States, and ZIP is 42424.
    Test Visa: card number 4242 4242 4242 4242, CVC is any 3 digits, date is "any future date" (highlighted)
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    May 16, 2022
    I'm sorry but what is happening on this billboard
    Billboard advertisement showing a person with dark skin and short hair holding a white iPhone in front of their face. In the top left is the Verizon logo, and the top right is the Apple logo modified to look like a padlock. The large text says "Privacy. That's iPhone." The bottom right corner says "apple.covm/priva-"; a red circle has been drawn on the image surrounding this URL
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    Jan 14, 2020
    🚢 I shipped my first major Notion feature today — completely revamped search! It was a technically challenging, incredibly detail-oriented project and I am suuuuuuuper chuffed to have finally done REAL WORLD SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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    Jan 14, 2020
    🔍 Introducing: search that WORKS. - Faster - More accurate results - Advanced filtering & sorting 2020's gonna be a good year folks. Learn more about new & improved Quick Find here: notion.so/Searching-with…
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    @sliminality
    Dec 25, 2019
    I gave my sister hand-me-down AirPods, and she says she feels like a member of the 1% in them. After running around the house shouting "taxation is theft" to get in character, she's now recording a TikTok of herself dancing to Reagan's inaugural address
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    @sliminality
    Nov 4, 2022
    Losing my mind about Gilbert Kaplan (1941–2016), a businessman with no musical training who became so obsessed with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 that he quit Wall Street and became an amateur conductor of ONLY MAHLER 2 for the rest of his life
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    Gilbert Kaplan - Wikipedia
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    @sliminality
    Oct 17, 2020
    As someone who strongly prefers static types, I can't believe I am saying this but I don't love the trend of dunking on dynamically typed languages as "merely" unityped/badly statically typed. Dynamism has its own rich history, including contributions to static typing.
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    @sliminality
    Oct 26, 2019
    > Ugh, men > Socrates is a man > Ugh, Socrates
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    Jan 19, 2019
    Apparently some people don't know that the iOS Chinese keyboards include a rich selection of text-based Unicode emoticons, but now you do. This is a public service announcement
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    May 18, 2022
    wait, I'm a PhD student in programming languages and I *just* found out that when people refer to the "dragon book" for compilers they're actually talking about Eragon. holy shit
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    Mar 19, 2025
    We don't spend nearly enough time appreciating how Jane Street, a hedge fund with a functional programming research group, embodies the platonic essence of an American R1 university
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    Mar 12, 2021
    Pressing a block of tofu between paper towel-lined cutting boards. Weighing the top cutting board down are two thick textbooks: How to Design Programs 2nd Edition by Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, and Krishnamurthi, and Types and Programming Languages by Pierce.
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    Dec 3, 2021
    My psychiatrist asked if I have any go-to therapeutic activities, I panicked and showed her this
    ASCII art drawing of a cube, with vertices labeled according to the lattice structure of Haskell import syntax. Vertex (0, 0, 0) is labeled "import Foo". (1, 0, 0) is "import Foo as T". (0, 1, 0) is "import Foo (Text)". (0, 0, 1) is "import qualified Foo". The next set of vertices are combinations of these constructs: "import qualified Foo as T", "import Foo as T (Text)", and "import qualified Foo (Text)". The final vertex (1, 1, 1) is "import qualified Foo as T (Text)".
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    @sliminality
    Nov 1, 2019
    Httpy Halloween from @aliciatweet and me. Not pictured: ALL OF THE OTHER @NotionHQ ENGINEERS who DID NOT participate because they were "busy" doing things like "making the app faster" and "IndexedDB transaction sync"
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