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June 2019 — 203 tweets

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  1. Found: pictures of a Past Cate.
  2. Being able to work publicly within a community - understand and navigate community norms, deal with potentially difficult and unconstructive feedback, give useful feedback and support to people with less expertise who are often just trying to make their living.
  3. Being friends w/ trans women as a cis woman is like being friends with women usually is but maybe a little more talk about makeup (yay) & also sometimes you get to be the person who explains the normalization of sexual assault because they didn’t learn as a teen like most of us.
  4. When you have low self esteem you might feel more “seen” by people who are mean. But having people in your life who are unkind doesn’t help. What if the people who see everything you’re capable of but don’t believe in yourself to do are the ones who are right? 🤯🖤🥰
  5. How do I do this on twitter? Can I assign friends emoji and ask them to add it to their handles? 😂
  6. LOOK all I am saying is when you break up you have to rebuild all your defaults and if you’re doing that anyway you may as well have a complete change of scene as a distraction and forcing function.
  7. 💯Dismantling the "logic" of TERFs, the variability of the experience of women, YESSSSS - Who Counts as a Woman? https://buff.ly/2uDRLzl /by @DrCarolHay
  8. Pretty sure this thing can’t fly ✈️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/05/pretty-sure-this-thing-cant-fly-%e2%9c%88%ef%b8%8f/…
  9. People are stand up paddle boarding in the river?!? With a vicious animal?!? It’s 13 degrees!!
  10. Two weeks away, I am hella jetlagged, my house is chaos from unboxing random crap from past lives... I am not ready to go back to work, please tell me I can do this 😭 It’s also a bank holiday lol so if I was organized about those things I would still be afk.
  11. Peonies 🌸 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/peonies-%f0%9f%8c%b8/…
  12. Really enjoyed this podcast with @ekp
  13. Looks like I’m back on the job market. I’m in search of front end or full stack dev positions, Portland/remote, though I’d think about relocating for the right job! I have 4 years of JS experience, would love any leads or retweets. Much 💚 to all my students. You got this!
  14. Any dev rel friends open to take a pass at a dev rel job posting for me? It could use some improvement and your expert opinion would help 🖤
  15. 👋🏻Hi Twitter. If you or someone you know is looking to hire a seasoned and fairly humble senior Ruby developer, please let me know. I was very unexpectedly laid off as part of a mass-downsizing today. I have 15 years of development experience, 5 in particular with Ruby on Rails.
  16. Some days leadership is like that joke about the $10 to hit the hammer and $990 knowing where to hit the hammer but you don’t get to send the invoice and the where to hit the hammer work goes unnoticed.
  17. Wow this has been a stressful week 🙈
  18. Cork 🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/cork-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa-2/…
  19. Cork 🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/cork-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa/…
  20. Yayyy I will see you there 🖤
  21. So peonies are like... very slowly exploding flowers? They looked so pretty but all of a sudden there are petals strewn throughout my house 🙈
  22. Discuss: capable people _want_ a thorough hiring process because: 1) they are not afraid to show what they can do 2) they have options 3) they don’t want to work with people who _aren’t_ capable. But: the more thorough the process the more bias vectors there are.
  23. I am staying in a travellodge and the room has no soap or shower gel is this camping what is happening surely I don't deserve this 😭
  24. 😂 i am going to regret calling my talk that aren’t I
  25. Hey! We're hiring remote devs at @automattic
  26. I recently found a baseline feeling of adequacy as a human being however now my inner monologue is no longer keeping track of and haranguing me for every failing so I need to have an external source of them.
  27. Don't worry, it's probably fine! 😏
  28. 💯
  29. I am in London or maybe this is the bad place
  30. Gaps don't bother me. I've hired a lot of folk, and never regretted hiring someone with a gap. I don't even ask what was in the gap, because it may be none of my damn business: * leaving an abusive relationship * providing end of life care * recovering from harassment * burnout
  31. I'm off to London to speak at @theLeadDev
  32. @purpleyay
  33. 🌙 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/%f0%9f%8c%99/…
  34. This morning: constructing a Trello board that captures all the life shit that I’m continually behind on ☑️ 🌸 A brief moment where I feel calmer because everything is in it 🌸 Later the same morning: continuing to add things, starting to feel increasingly overwhelmed 😭
  35. Lmao
  36. This is getting increasingly elaborate, I now have tags for “easy” things, blocking, waiting, ideas, etc. Also: a list of things to buy.
  37. I am soooooo tired today (all weekend really) and idk why I change the sheets when I’ll only be here for two nights in the next two weeks... now I am just sad I don’t get to sleep in fresh sheets tonight or right now 😭
  38. My therapist is on vacation this week so I cried on my physio instead. Everything is fine.
  39. 🐮 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/%f0%9f%90%ae-2/…
  40. You’re a monster.
  41. Hey! We're hiring remote devs at @automattic
  42. Don’t you look at this and want to sleep in it for 2-3 days 😴
  43. I am now rushing to a Tesco in the middle of the fucking night to buy some fucking soap I can't even 😭
  44. 😂 “I like living indoors and eating food, therefore I work.” ~@wiredferret
  45. Never opened my laptop on this trip, just used my tablet. Maybe next trip I will just leave it behind altogether...
  46. I try to completely disconnect on the weekends if at all possible, but aside from work travel (which is frequent) if I work on the weekend I try to make it deep, meaningful work. The benefit of working at the weekend is being able to focus without distraction.
  47. I've always been conflicted about whether to use a part of Sunday to get a headstart on the upcoming week, or to keep it almost exclusively as a part of a no-work weekend. What do you do with weekends and easing into the work week?
  48. Berlin friends, I am coming to visit you tomorrow!! 😍
  49. Berlin 🇩🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/berlin-%f0%9f%87%a9%f0%9f%87%aa/…
  50. So excited for #leaddevlondon, here with ~20 other people from @automattic
  51. My latest in @qz
  52. Good article on growing teams from @lethain
  53. ⛅️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/%e2%9b%85%ef%b8%8f-2/…
  54. Oh my fucking god 😂
  55. Wild!
  56. “You can teach almost anything to almost anyone if you can figure out how to ask for it in small enough increments with enough reward.” ~@wiredferret
  57. “Annual review - I don’t get anything out of filling out this form other than anxiety and stress? How can I put this off and do something that gives me a reward instead?” ~@wiredferret
  58. “Without estimates project managers can’t produce Gantt charts and where would we be without them?” #LeadDevLondon
  59. This pen can only ever be bought as a gift 😂
  60. Yes true but I don’t think they always get selected out :/
  61. 💭 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/%f0%9f%92%ad/…
  62. Just got a text that contains the words “i never thought I'd empathise with a toilet” and I’m not sure how concerned to be 🚽😂
  63. Been listening to @endocrimes
  64. Rainbow building 🌈 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/rainbow-building-%f0%9f%8c%88/…
  65. My gym has started texting me when I don’t visit it 😆 it’s nice to be missed, I’ll take it.
  66. Next time I can’t sleep I need to text a different friend 🐍
  67. @nerdneha
  68. So excited for #leaddevlondon, here with ~20 other people from @automattic
  69. 👗 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/%f0%9f%91%97-2/…
  70. Berlin friends, I am coming to visit you tomorrow!! 😍
  71. Yay I have new glasses! 👓 however there will be no selfies today as I haven’t slept properly in a week and look like a reanimated corpse ⚰️
  72. GOOD NEWS I successfully took two public transits and also had a delightful time in Zurich. I went to a modern art gallery of restful shapes and interesting darkness, the old botanical gardens, walked around the lake, and ate amazing Swiss ice cream 🥰🇨🇭
  73. Oh my god. I did have a candidate say that he had enjoyed our conversations and would like to speak to me more 😂 I wondered if it was going that way but he never followed up!
  74. Aiii
  75. Oh wow the nerve of them! how did you handle it?
  76. Love it when men treat me like their personal punching bag and emotional labour resource 😭
  77. ... I have some questions 🤷🏻‍♀️
  78. You have such a collection I’m so sorry 😐
  79. An intern candidate for a python focused role would not answer my interview questions but kept talking about about his crypto currency trading hobby and how this was his passion.
  80. 😂 penguins deserve better and so do you 🖤
  81. it was an ugly penguin too
  82. Sang to you! Omg! Was he a good singer at least?
  83. You have such a collection I’m so sorry 😐
  84. Yeah :(
  85. :/ so many interviewers are so bad!
  86. The TCP one was also an iOS interview. Because, you know, iOS developers don’t use http I guess?
  87. Did you tell him?
  88. “Not being real engineers” omfg.
  89. Wow those guys 🙄
  90. Interviewees is normal, INTERVIEWERS omg
  91. *normal but shouldn’t be. I can’t even.
  92. 😲 what a twit
  93. Oh yeah totally !! Same :)
  94. “He must be important if he is here” 😂
  95. I’m glad he didn’t get hired but wow!!
  96. What the actual fuck I’m so sorry.
  97. Beau, didn’t you know this kind of thing literally resulted in a guy ~stalking me, threatening me, and trying to get me fired? It’s part of why I’m so obsessive about being able to disappear at any time.
  98. That is obscene
  99. 😂 penguins deserve better and so do you 🖤
  100. Holy shit!
  101. RIP my mentions 😂 I’m trying to respond to everyone 🖤
  102. I think I finally know how to frame my talk that I am not giving until September and I actually feel EXCITED about it. Must capitalize on this!
  103. Yeah agree :/ hoping to use this thread to raise some awareness of the cost though.
  104. The candidate got super belligerant when I pointed out a bug in his code. Didn't act this way with any other panel members. Guess how diverse the panel was? We didn't hire. I hate that it overburdens us under represented folk, but we need to be in more rooms for this reason.
  105. Myself +2 male co-interviewers. Male interviewee, when asked a maths qn, said to me "excuse me' while he turned his back to me and addressed the less mathematical members of the interviewing team. Funny thing though the male interviewers didn't notice! (But they took my advice:)
  106. Oh wow the nerve of them! how did you handle it?
  107. Grief, although I think I’ve had that one too :/
  108. That is appalling.
  109. I don’t like that the wording of the question implies that I give a fuck about their feelings, I expect everyone on my teams to treat their coworkers with respect. But can see it being a useful thing to check.
  110. I’m glad you did though, it’s a very othering move - refusing to shake the hands of some people but not others.
  111. Oh my fucking god 😂
  112. I once had a candidate for a tech writer role bring up, apropos of nothing, how one of his female friends had “gotten” to document a vibrator and how he imagined that must’ve been fun for her??? I had no idea how to respond.
  113. “He mansplained mansplaining to me whilst reminiscing about mansplaining” oh my!!
  114. Yeah the not assumed to be technical one happens all the fucking time and is ridiculous. I’m sorry about the response to you saying you’re nb 🖤
  115. What the fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck I’m sorry I segfaulted
  116. Urgh I hate it when they patronize me. I just hand them the spade and let them dig and then at some point I’m like look you are in a hole and I have the spade 😎
  117. :(
  118. Yeah agree :/ hoping to use this thread to raise some awareness of the cost though.
  119. Okay here they are, one of these photos is even UNFILTERED omg
  120. a candidate told me i had beautiful eyes and that he couldn’t stop staring at how they matched my company’s brand color.
  121. I agree with you :)
  122. That’s appalling, I’m so sorry you had to deal with that. And glad they did not get hired!
  123. Argh why are men
  124. Yeah totally 💔
  125. Haha I wouldn’t worry, it was the tone as much of the words... Also society.
  126. Oh wow :(
  127. A candidate referenced his ex-girlfriend, a technical recruiter, and said “they get beautiful women who don’t know anything to be tech recruiters”. He ignored me, but listened to my co-interviewer, a man. He bombed the technical parts too, so it was an easy no for everyone.
  128. Interviewing a male candidate for my future boss, asked how he'd handle a report of sexism of one of his employees. He jumped to tell me a story of an employee of his that I knew who reported HIM for sexual harassment & how she only did it cause she was jealous of him.
  129. The interview continued with me asking clarification on another answer of his, when he turned to a male peer of mine also in the interview to ask him "how do you even talk to her?" 😐 He thankfully responded "professionally"
  130. RIP my mentions 😂 I’m trying to respond to everyone 🖤
  131. That is some next level shit 😭
  132. I am running an affection deficit. Please send love. Note: love often looks like a 🦝
  133. :(
  134. :/ so many interviewers are so bad!
  135. Guest room look two 🛏🌸 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/guest-room-look-two-%f0%9f%9b%8f%f0%9f%8c%b8/…
  136. Sang to you! Omg! Was he a good singer at least?
  137. “Without estimates project managers can’t produce Gantt charts and where would we be without them?” #LeadDevLondon
  138. One of reason why interview situation is interesting, is because the interviewer (presumably) has more power than the interviewee. And YET weird/inappropriate/diminishing behavior still prevalent. How do you think these people - primarily men - behave when THEY have the power?
  139. Asking that question, though, is overhead. Around 1 in 50 is in the catagory of “creepy enough to make me actively concerned about my safety”. This is typically more boundary pushing or manipulative/invasive behavior. So not common, but at this point there have been a few 🙄
  140. These guys annoy me so much 🙄
  141. One guy decided to make a joke: how many women does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. The glass ceiling is in the way. He was awful at programming, too.
  142. I need 6L of tea and also my will to live back 😭
  143. 🌅 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/%f0%9f%8c%85-6/…
  144. Finally this thread illustrates why there is no equal pay without equity. You cannot factor in society. Two of your engineers do interviews. One of them has these experiences. The other does not. Is this “equal work”?
  145. “Between 11-6 I speak with a Russian accent, for more exotical.” 😂 I love the designpanoptikum!! 🇩🇪
  146. ~2012: living in 🇨🇦, debate whether to move to Sydney 🇦🇺 or Zurich 🇨🇭Move to Sydney. 2019: actually visit Zurich 😂 on an ~16h layover 🛬🛫
  147. Best name
  148. I am alone on public transit the last time I did this I ended up in a very rural place 🙈 wish me luck 🍀🇨🇭
  149. Look at dis beautiful raccoon my colleague sent me pictures 🦝😍🥰
  150. “We experienced too much to be uninterested in politics.” ~Otto Frank
  151. Past Cate: “I will spend a nice afternoon in Zurich!” Present Cate: “I will pass out face down on the floor of ZCH airport.”
  152. Been absurdly happy all day, especially considering the ongoing sleep deprivation. So nice to be back in Berlin 🇩🇪🥰
  153. Last night I snapped this pic for you - Regina is doing fine (had fam with her, but didn't get a shot of them);
  154. Does anyone else just look at random flags and want to go there? Like I want to understand the place that produced this: 🇮🇲 !? 🙃🌍🛫
  155. OH “It was definitely consensual but still weird!”
  156. River 🇩🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/river-%f0%9f%87%a9%f0%9f%87%aa/…
  157. “Being fond of Niki resulted in me having the worst job ever but I still love him.” @nikolayb
  158. “The vacuum cleaner is the most important body part in Germany, after the car.” 😆
  159. This was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well. ~Heinrich Heine,1820 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/this-was-but-a-prelude-where-they-burn-books-they-will-ultimately-burn-people-as-well-heinrich-heine1820/…
  160. Urgh that’s awful I am so, so sorry 🖤
  161. 🥰
  162. 💯🖤
  163. Non-men of tech: what’s some messed up shit that has happened when conducting technical interviews?
  164. Non-men of tech: what’s some messed up shit that has happened when conducting technical interviews?
  165. The other thing to call out is how COMMON this is. I have done hundreds of interviews. I would say around 1 in 10 leaves me asking the question “would it have gone like that with a dude?” - most common is to seem like they are just not taking me seriously.
  166. We are adorable 🐧🖤
  167. Oh my god
  168. My therapist told me I was resilient today so just leaving that here in case I need y’all to remind me sometime 🙃
  169. I really thought I would like ZRH more than I do but then again life is full of disappointment.
  170. ⭕️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/%e2%ad%95%ef%b8%8f-3/…
  171. Noooooo I lost my nice noise cancelling headphones 😭 so sad 💔
  172. Was complemented on my personal brand building yesterday and it’s like “ah yes, my elaborate strategy for not needing to initiate conversation.” 🤔😎💅🏼
  173. As a leader, your job should change every six months even if you stay put https://cate.blog/2019/06/26/as-a-leader-your-job-should-change-every-six-months-even-if-you-stay-put/…
  174. I really thought I would like ZRH more than I do but then again life is full of disappointment.
  175. It’s more bursting into tears than fire, but same-same but different.
  176. can’t make everyone happy ☕️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/cant-make-everyone-happy-%e2%98%95%ef%b8%8f/…
  177. Argh travel looks like an optimization problems but isn’t, actually, and this brings me to a grinding halt when contemplating it sometimes 🙈
  178. I did not cry today I will take that as a win
  179. I am determined to rebrand "servant leadership" to "team house elf"; by this you can probably make an informed guess as to my opinions "servant leadership".
  180. 🌳 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/%f0%9f%8c%b3-7/…
  181. I'm trying to be warmer but I'm not sure it's working 🙈 thankfully at least one person recognizes the effort I am making!
  182. It’s been a long and exhausting week at the end of a long and exhausting month. I feel like a parking ticket; in need of validation.
  183. Colleague orders irn bru and I’m like “omg you’re so Scottish” and she says “well I haven’t had any in like three days” 😂
  184. What has two thumbs, and a fully-functional-extra-large passport? THIS GIRL!! 🌎🌍🌏
  185. Noooooo I lost my nice noise cancelling headphones 😭 so sad 💔
  186. Can humans spontaneously combust out of stress? Asking for... well obviously me.
  187. I wrote about why I actually love it when people complain to me, and the myriad of things we can learn from it - Why good bosses like when people complain - https://qz.com/work/1653161/why-good-bosses-like-when-people-complain/…
  188. Whenever I make crumpets I’m reminded that my toaster has an actual CRUMPET SETTING and it fills me with disproportionate joy.
  189. The first question we ask new hires to our team is what animal they would prefer to be eaten by... ...should I worry about the kind of impression that gives and any implicit expectations it might create? 🤔
  190. I loved this story raccoons are so brilliant and so determined 🖤
  191. Aww 🖤
  192. can’t make everyone happy ☕️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/cant-make-everyone-happy-%e2%98%95%ef%b8%8f/…
  193. Not a Picasso https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/not-a-picasso/…
  194. Whenever I make crumpets I’m reminded that my toaster has an actual CRUMPET SETTING and it fills me with disproportionate joy.
  195. Emptiness, framed https://photo.cate.blog/2019/06/emptiness-framed/…
  196. white people who think being called out on their casual racism is the problem need to get a fucking clue
  197. American toasters 🙄
  198. white people who think being called out on their casual racism is the problem need to get a fucking clue
  199. This is *appalling* - @IMDb