Principal Systems Architect for Etsy. Co-author of "High Performance MySQL, 4th edition" Drinker of wine. Consumer of chocolate. Maker of Dad Jokes.

Seattle, WA
Joined March 2009
Recruiter: can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: I’m not very good at CSS
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It was an honor being adopted by you. Goodbye my friend.
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A follower recently shared that their DevRel team is sadly disbanding. If you have open DevRel positions, please comment below. I've directed them to this post to stay updated, as they're not yet able to discuss this publicly just yet.
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This was the best bad choice I’ve made in a while. French toast with milk and white chocolate chips, brownie, chocolate sauce, and cream.
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OH: Request timeout: aka the Irish Goodbye
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I am once again reminding everyone in tech, don't get paged for things you can't take action on.
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Seriously @Apple, how can Spotlight be *this* bad? You're telling me you can't figure out that I want the Messages app because I'm missing an "s"?
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The 2 great travel tragedies of our time: the US can’t figure out metric, and UK colonies can’t drive on the correct side of the road.
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The state of mobile browsing is so bad that we now need a "it looks like you're using an ad blocker" blocker.
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OH: scream driven development
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Good morning friends 🌞 Unfortunately I was laid off this week and I am looking for my next role. If anyone knows of companies looking for a frontend developer, hit me up 😀 You can check out my experience here ⬇️ linkedin.com/in/jessica-wilk…
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Is there anything more tacky than blind calendar invites from sales people?
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Jeremy Tinley retweeted
#BlueAngels in #Seattle today flying over @space_needle . I got my shot! :) #Seafair2023 #SeaFair
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Jeremy Tinley retweeted
Pet rent is the stupidest concept I have ever heard of how do you expect my cat to pay $50 a month he is unemployed
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Realized something this morning about the X rebranding. Think about every website that has a bird logo for their twitter contact... What a colossal mistake.
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And then one day, your book is in Polish!
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Dole Whip is so good.
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