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Janessa Garrow

@JanessaGarrow

senior software engineer | prev @apollographql | Married to @PeterGarrow | Mom | she/her 🇵🇭🇺🇸

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Joined September 2011
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Today seems like a good day to permanently ditch this app. Catch me over on 🦋 @ bsky.app/profile/janessagarr…
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PSA: Using Agile/SCRUM is not excuse to create poorly documented tickets/designs.
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But it’s another thing entirely when engineers have to ask lots of questions about the feature whose answers you already knew, but failed to capture in your written specs. Reduce the extra, unnecessary back and forth. 3/
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To be clear, I’m not saying that everything needs to be perfect and polished before handing off. What I am saying is that if you already know what the behavior of the feature should be, then document it. Then convos w/ devs are focused on true unknowns rather than missing info 4/
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#GraphQL friends! I'm looking for resources for GraphQL best practices in Rails (types vs resolver organization, field level authorization, etc). Tutorials I've been looking at are a bit too basic in those regards
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I'm not loving that the graphql-ruby gem's docs are just "here's what you can do" without much guidance in regards to perhaps what you SHOULD do. Would love any resources y'all have!
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Can we as a tech industry stop using the term “grooming” 😖 “refining” is RIGHT THERE and is a far less cringe-inducing word
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Not an attorney, but my most recent jury duty summons was for a homicide case that was anticipated to over 6 weeks: Me: *34+ weeks pregnant* Judge: Well, we can see you’re pregnant Male atty: Why do you believe pregnancy would cause undue hardship in participating in this case?
Meera Deo (@meeradeo) profile pictureMeera Deo@meeradeo7 Jun 2024
My most recent attempt: Atty: What’s your profession? Me: Teacher. Atty: What do you teach? Me: Law. Atty: Which courses? Me: Civ Pro. And Evidence. … Judge: Juror, we thank and excuse you.
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Me: …because I’m in my 3rd trimester and am supposed to give birth during the expected trial timeline. Female atty: I have no questions.
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Alright friends, turns out my new role is more full stack and not just frontend. Gimme your favorite Rails learning resources!
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Halp, all of this spring sunshine has me overly ambitious about hobbies and side projects
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Jason Lengstorf
@jlengstorf23 Feb 2024
hi friends! I find myself approaching the end of the month and I REALLY need to land a new contract, like, this week 😬 any companies looking to partner on content? explainer videos, tutorials, social media, etc. — I'm available! info@learnwithjason.dev (plz share — thanks!)
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Are you bad about deleting your local branches after your PRs get merged? Do you sometimes forget which branch you were working on yesterday and struggle to figure out which out of all of your local branches it was? `git branch --sort=-committerdate` is your new best friend
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Best game my 5yo has come up with recently: playing “Santa”, where I have to lay on the couch and pretend to sleep while she and her brother pretend to make stuff and sneak around leaving “presents”. Highly recommend if you’re feeling tired but still wanna play with the kids
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Repeat after me: docs do not solve all of your developer experience problems.
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It’s easy to blame technical writers. It’s hard to admit that your product might kind of suck to use. Next time you have an instinct to bash on your company’s docs, take some time to also think about how your actual product could be easier to use.
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Last night at book club, a discussion about racism came up. Never have I felt smaller and more alone in a room full of white people. It was disheartening to hear their level of ignorance and misunderstanding
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If you’re white and hear anything remotely racist, or ignorant about racism, PLEASE speak up. We’re tired. We feel alone. Let everyone know that we’re not actually alone.
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