September 2019 — 135 tweets
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Me: why do I feel like shit? Fitbit: I can explain
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💐 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%92%90-5/…
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DOLPHINS ARE ASSHOLES Y’ALL https://x.com/havenlust/stat/havenlust/status/1169399788619665409…
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I tried to take a selfie but I look too exhausted. I’m sorry!!
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enjoying some light time travel this morning at #fsf2019 with @leeb
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🌊☁️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/%f0%9f%8c%8a%e2%98%81%ef%b8%8f/…
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“I’m sorry you live on a fucked up sleep schedule. Like you wake up at 7 in the morning or some shit.”
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Love these stages of learning in @ag_dubs
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Omg omg Berlin!! 🖤
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😍
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🖤 later that guy called me a c*** and finally people were like “oh he’s a misogynist! Who knew?!”
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Any day that starts with a draft coming back from @HeatherLandy
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🌊🌙 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/%f0%9f%8c%8a%f0%9f%8c%99/…
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Appreciate this thorough recap of the @AutomatticEng
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You can hide in the corner with us ANY TIME!
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Pre-talk selfie!
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We are ~1h into #fsf2019 and I’m already like fuck being a manager I wanna write code again.
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Haha I was 4 so unfortunately not!
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Boats! 🇪🇸 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/boats-%f0%9f%87%aa%f0%9f%87%b8/…
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Love this video about accessibility options that @SaraSoueidan
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Reassuring! 😆 Why introverts might actually be better networkers https://buff.ly/2LhbWwc
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Happy I live in Ireland today. “How Mike Pence shat on the new carpet in Ireland’s spare room” https://irishtimes.com/news/politics/miriam-lord-how-mike-pence-shat-on-the-new-carpet-in-ireland-s-spare-room-1.4006979…
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My latest in @qz
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@Una
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Heading to the airport - next stop NYC! Had the best time @FullStackFest
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Yuuuuuupp!
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I like this story better!!
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💯 would be an entirely different scenario.
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📚 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/%f0%9f%93%9a/…
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“I’m sorry that my life doesn’t revolve around your sleep schedule.” I think we can all agree that @endocrimes
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😱 Cut off my hair!!
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Giving a talk first thing tomorrow so I have applied three different facemasks in succession and my skin looks MUCH BETTER so everything is under control I guess. (Wish me luck?)
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Omg the precious babies 🖤
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Helpful tips here, I'm going to be more consistent about the small task - How to Let Go at the End of the Workday https://buff.ly/2ZKovnA
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Being near a baby is watching this intense rollercoaster of emotion. I exhausted just watching.
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Thinking about the time I couldn’t buy socks and so @micheletitolo
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Oh yeah totally I moved on from that situation a long time ago, but it happened to a friend last week.
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Is your therapist the site reliability engineer for your life? 🤔
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In the front row for my girl @ellenchisa
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The guy who supervised my undergraduate thesis is also speaking at this event. Is this making it? 😆
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We are about to post a dev rel role on https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
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“When you finish a proof it’s exactly like a cat. Cats are great. But what do they do? They lie around the house being like “I’m so elegant, I’m a cat”.” ~Philip Wadler #FSF2019
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I may never stop laughing about this tweet 😆 ilu2
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“I enjoy that this is the conference of “Cate and Ellen hide in a corner”” @ellenchisa
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Something I’ve heard multiple times from women in tech is having a promo blocked by one asshole dude who doesn’t like you. Has this happened to you? (It totally happened to me.)
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Sitges 🇪🇸 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/sitges-%f0%9f%87%aa%f0%9f%87%b8/…
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Yay! I am in NEW YORK! 🗽🇺🇸
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omg look at dis kitten!!!!! 🐱🖤
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Wrote about it at length: https://cate.blog/2019/02/06/the-cost-of-fixing-things/… Today: paying attention to earlier signs of imbalance / drowning / aloneness. Carving out more time for myself. Actually practicing self care as in actually caring, not doing random shit to be “nice” to present or future Cate.
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"To achieve that you need to learn to be in a state of bemused detachment. Which I do not think you are currently capable of." @skamille
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By the time you’re in your thirties you need multiple girlfriends who accept your deficiencies as a human adult in the world and give you practical help.
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Distributed: How to Build and Strengthen Distributed Engineering Teams https://cate.blog/2019/09/04/distributed-how-to-build-and-strengthen-distributed-engineering-teams/…
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Starting the day as I mean to go on 💦🍵☕️
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I know if only there had been some VERY OBVIOUS TELLS.
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Hey! We are hiring @AutomatticEng
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🦝🧦🦝 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/%f0%9f%a6%9d%f0%9f%a7%a6%f0%9f%a6%9d/…
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In the world's worst airport based on my research. Which has been extensive.
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Why do I have to leave nyc and go to a terrible place today 😱😭
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Mwhahaha it was the most fun I have ever had at work
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I have been fired as MC and dispatched to do Q&A if you are at #tryswiftnyc please come find me at the orange table! 🖤
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Thank you!!
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So sad to leave #tryswiftnyc early! Always the best time, so appreciate the lovely audience, amazing speakers, cohosts @jaspellior
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Look at @elibud
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Friend called me for a pep talk this morning, in case someone else needs to hear this today: - excessive self criticism is a form of self harm - it can also be a way that we self-sabotage the thing we say we want most of all - I love you and believe in you! 🖤
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Hahaha noted!! Not a big fan of that. But MCO is hell on Earth.
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Niagra 🇨🇦 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/niagra-%f0%9f%87%a8%f0%9f%87%a6/…
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Omg @maximeb
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Ooh I can get a purple phone that takes better selfies? SOLD!
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🌈 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/%f0%9f%8c%88-2/…
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Life comes at you fast 🔪
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What men think friendship is: “my bro fucked up but he’s a good guy really”. What women think friendship is: “girl don’t do that shit you know better.”
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What piece of advice that you’ve received do you think about most often? For me: Don’t waste your time playing games you don’t care about winning.
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CDG is terrible but that is not today's suffering. Also once you leave it you are in Paris. Here the outside the airport is also very terrible.
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I RIDE HULK RIDE FIFTEEN TIMES I HULK NOW
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We miss you 🖤
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I am now!
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being in America is desperately wanting a teapot trying to get a teapot in two languages failing to get a teapot never having enough tea crying
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Sure, the stuff @catehstn has to say is great and smart, but her slides are SO ADORABLE.
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New York 🇺🇸 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/new-york-%f0%9f%87%ba%f0%9f%87%b8/…
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Omg! @savinola
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“If stupid things keep happening, the real problem is the system that makes it easy to do stupid things.” ~@berkun
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New York 🗽🇺🇸 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/new-york-%f0%9f%97%bd%f0%9f%87%ba%f0%9f%87%b8/…
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Brooklyn Bridge 🌉🇺🇸 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/brooklyn-bridge-%f0%9f%8c%89%f0%9f%87%ba%f0%9f%87%b8/…
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books are magic 📚✨ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/books-are-magic-%f0%9f%93%9a%e2%9c%a8/…
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I am like a goldfish reacclimitizing to normal life after a week trapped in a convention centre with almost all my colleagues.
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Some days I fantasize packing in this whole people management malarkey and just writing code again 👩🏻💻
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Setting people up to be successful is one of the most important pieces of a good hiring process, @a_hollandsmith & I wrote about how we approach it @automatticeng
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"your committee of queer friends has been voting for this for many years" "No no no don't at me"
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As the oversharing human of @darklang, being quiet for the last two years was very hard. FINALLY we get to show what we're doing! https://medium.com/@darklang/unveiling-dark-e0be6f1e0b06…
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I feel like the MacOS loading spinner right now. Like I've taken too many inputs and I am just... working through processing them all.
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Yay! Got to meet @pomeranian99
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You are living your best life
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I miss three things from my last job at the ridiculous startup: the people especially @ecarrion89
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James Mickens just described me as a quantum particle so my week is complete.
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Done.
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Brooklyn https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/brooklyn/…
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Haha if I do that they will want you to write something!!
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Holy shit babe that is appalling. I am so sorry 🖤
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“You need to understand that other people are incentivized to enrage British people as much as possible so that they will be polite. You are incentivizing constant rage. Perhaps this explains what is going on.” I am dying laughing 😆
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“Glitter does not just come to you. You have to seek it out.” ~@photomatt
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Me: "maybe I will move to New York" @skamille
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🎶 Who needs sleep well you're never gonna get it who needs sleep tell me what that's for... 🎶
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He also remembered the last time we met (when he told me I would be kidnapped) and says he is glad I am still alive. @skamille
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Heylooooo New York frens I am here let's hang out 🖤
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Tomorrow! 🖤
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WordPress! There’s a great mobile app!!
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♥️ amor ♥️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/%e2%99%a5%ef%b8%8f-amor-%e2%99%a5%ef%b8%8f/…
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What is with the @lyft
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TBT that time I made @buritica
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My NYC shopping: one specific stall on the highline that is only open Saturdays, one specific boutique on Madison Ave.
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hell yeah https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/hell-yeah/…
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It’s not a career opportunity if you don’t get what (support, training, resources) you need to succeed.
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OH “I dumped this guy. He voted for Brexit, so that triggered article 50.”
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✈️ Landing in London 🇬🇧 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/%e2%9c%88%ef%b8%8f-landing-in-london-%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%a7/…
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This is a bit aspirational, I can only dream of being as brave and adorable as a RACCOON 🦝😍🖤
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I wish Instagram understood that if I have not liked a picture or video of a raccoon I have not truly seen it yet.
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Here lies Sophie. She was just a bit too hot to work. t.co/5QvyCP2Ths
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I come in peace but I mean business ✌️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/i-come-in-peace-but-i-mean-business-%e2%9c%8c%ef%b8%8f/…
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Feeling more emotionally resilient today so I am RIDING THE SUBWAY @hmason
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Procedure at the 🏥 tomorrow am so... I guess it’s time to start pre-gaming anxiety meds 💊😭
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I finally bought a leather jacket and it makes me look like such a badass I fucking love it 🕶
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The good news is if I survive I get some guilt free horizontal time to watch the last season of Jane the Virgin and play LEGO video games.
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🌟 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/%f0%9f%8c%9f/…
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Another reason why it would be better to have a pet raccoon.
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Also yayyyyy stroopwaffels from @basthomas
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ANYWAY holla at my friend who came with me fully expecting to be sat outside listening to me scream for twenty minutes... Also I’m mostly fine now just extremely exhausted and a little sore.
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I love that @lccarson
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So many birds 🐦 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/so-many-birds-%f0%9f%90%a6/…
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“this reminded me of you, a frazzled Australian creature. This is meant with love.”
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I am so mad at TERFs and I am so mad about shitty media coverage that includes “both sides” when one side is science and medical care and the other side is toxic, uninformed hateful bullshit.
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🐘 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/%f0%9f%90%98/…