lead software engineer @disney. ❤️ mechanical keyboards ⌨️. 🇧🇷 she/her

Seattle, WA
Joined January 2013
Therapist: and what do we do when we feel sad? Me: buy mechanical keyboards Therapist: no – at Seattle, WA
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Hello, it’s me again with my yearly post of a new project Miata I’ve bought. Follow my build on IG: instagram.com/luigikartmiata
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An update no one asked for: I’m wrapping it and it’s looking 🔥
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If you can’t trust your tests, you might as well not have them. 🧪🚨 At #ChainReact2026, @isabelacmor from @Disney showed how automated accessibility and visual regression testing can be a lot less intimidating than it sounds. Using Playwright, Axe Core, Docker, and GitHub Actions, Isabela walks through building tests that automatically check pages for accessibility issues, catch unexpected visual changes, and run as part of your CI/CD pipeline. The key? Keeping those tests reliable. Because once flaky tests start getting ignored, real bugs can slip through too. 🐛 Want to ship with a little more confidence? Check out the full talk! 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=LjxV0P28… #ChainReact #ReactNative #MobileDev #Accessibility #Portland
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Sometimes I speak at conferences. Thanks for the great time @ChainReactConf !
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Coming to Chain React: Automated Visual Regression and Accessibility Testing Made Easy 💥 Automated testing is supposed to save time. So why does setting it up often feel so complicated? @isabelacmor from @Disney will show how to build a consistent suite of visual regression and accessibility tests using Playwright and Docker, creating testing workflows that are more consistent across local and CI/CD environments. Expect practical techniques you can take back to your team right away. 🚀 🔗 chainreactconf.com/speakers/… 🎟️ Get tickets: chainreactconf.com #ReactNative #ChainReact2026 #Testing #Accessibility #Portland
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Mario Kart Miata loading…
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Can't wait to see y'all at @ChainReactConf in July! I'll be speaking about automating visual regression and accessibility testing in your CI pipelines 🚀
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Thanks to @g2i_co and @gabegreenberg, I’m a certified vibe killer now 😎
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This is my issue with AI. Is it efficient? Mostly, if you know how to use it. Does it make my work feel meaningless and like I’m babysitting an agent just to say “Yes, and don’t ask me again for this command”? Absolutely. Zero sense of accomplishment or pride in “my work”
I'm now able to tell my agent “we are going to work on JIRA-1234” and it goes and pulls down the task, makes me a plan, I say yeah okay that looks good, and it generates the commit. I run an AI review from a different session, it finds 4 issues of varying priorities, I paste it to my original agent and say validate these findings and fix them if necessary, it creates a fix, I run another review, no more high priority issues found. I open up the code in an IDE to go over it before pushing it up for human review. Looks fine I guess, nothing crazy. I try to understand everything before I push it up for review because if this breaks, it's still my name on it. I say why did you make this one change, it gives me a reasonable explanation for why. It says something codebaity like "if you want I can suggest 2 more ways you could really tighten up this work to prevent some rare but possible regressions". I'm smart enough to not fall for it. Code pushed up, task moved to in-review. I didn't write any of it, this is not my accomplishment. Users won't care who wrote it if it works. A lot done in 20 mins but it felt soulless.
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dang @dominos really nerfed their app and mobile site. Performance is terrible (multiple minutes waiting for a menu to load to for an item to get added to the cart) and tooons of errors. Surely they’ve seen a drop in orders??
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Seriously I can’t for the life of me place an order.
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The site across all devices is broken too. So I gave up and am making my own pizza. jfc @dominos what’s a bummer to my carb girl summer
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Yearly reminder that you don’t have to make tech your life to be a good engineer. I’m very transparent with my team that I don’t touch a computer outside of working hours. I purposefully choose hobbies that aren’t digital.
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That’s not to say that coding outside of work is bad. In fact, I do think it’s beneficial for junior folks who want to grow quickly. But engineering can also “just be a job”.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Sorry I’ve been MIA - busy rebuilding a Miata we found abandoned at a barn.
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I’ll be doing a lightning talk at @CascadiaJS this year on becoming a great code reviewer! Super excited to be back and even more excited to run into old and new friends 💕 hmu if you’ll be there! I’m local to Seattle, so happy to meet up early, give recs, etc ☺️
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tbh it’s kinda fucked up @ChickfilA runs ads on Sunday. Y’all can’t make me crave CFA on the Lords day.
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The girlies have laid their first egg 🐥
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It had two mini yolks and was delicious
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Isabela McLenachen retweeted
All of the talks from React Miami 2025 are now live! 🎉 Rewatch a favorite, catch a missed session, and share your takeaways! Big thank you to @basementstudio for the post-production work to make this possible 🙏 Check out the full playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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