Jennifer Gilbert

Jen is slowly becoming America's Old Lady Name. I plan to embrace this by forming a ladies' club with my fellow San Francisco Jens. This club, called Jenanigans, will meet at my house to drink wine, do puzzles, and reflect on how life has changed since the 1900s. Tell your Jens.

@thewizardlucas An observation can be valid without being useful.

I’ve seen excellent programmers use VS Code, and I’ve seen bad programmers use VS Code. But I’ve never seen a bad programmer using vim or emacs.

developers who don't run prettier on save will never know the dopamine reward signal you get when you write valid code and watch it reformat if it ever doesn't reformat, I start looking for syntax errors

I will be grateful to the OG bloggers forever. They were bold and honest and unapologetic in a way that I had never seen before, and gave me the courage to be who I wanted to be, not who others wanted me to be. I hope you have peace now, @dooce. You changed my life.

the two options for furniture in america are a $85 table made of spit and paper and a $4,485 table made of wood out of a tree that some one kissed every day

@celikovic The obvious answer is "the pandemic." Wild that people have forgotten this. Do people think they can't get Covid now?

Why did it become controversial to ask people to work from the office?

@joemasilotti @nateberkopec +1. It's not about increasing lines of code per hour, it's about building smoother rails for my train of thought. I'm sure there's a point of diminishing returns though.

@nateberkopec More value? Probably not. But easier on your brain? Yes. The faster I can get my ideas on “paper” the more likely I don’t forget something. And being able to manipulate text is high on that list for me.

I think about all the barriers to me “shipping more”, and I just don’t see “editing text faster” being on the top 10 of that list. Anyone want to try to convince me otherwise, that learning more about my editor is truly a top way to create more value with software?

A YouTube star who went viral as a toddler talks about the resentment she feels toward her parents, who told her she had to keep making videos so they could maintain their lifestyle Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content teenvogue.com/story/influenc…

@iamharaldur Writing tests for error cases just as a "best practice," while 100% believing they are unnecessary, never fails to be a thoroughly humbling experience.

I scuffed a woman's car with my car. I apologized and told her to send me an estimate for repairs. We spent the next two weeks exchanging friendly texts until she excitedly updated me that she had managed to crowd-source and get it fixed for $28. Can we all be like this?

@dvassallo You could have just made this about yourself and your own feelings, you know. You didn't have to bring the pile of arrogance into it.

“Child-free by choice” is like having a set of properly functioning eyes, and choosing never to open them. I am 1000% convinced you can have a very fulfilling life without being a parent. But if you have the means, what a great pity to be “blind by choice”.

@RobDenBleyker Better late than never.

congrats Rush Limbaugh on 2 years sober

(Today I was trying to order tile, but realized I forgot to bring my wallet to my desk. So I got up and retrieved it, which blew my cover. He was like "What do you need a WALLET for if it's a work meeting?" and started barking.)

I used to think I'd be a great dog parent who raised a reasonable animal. Now, when I need to make a phone call, I have to pretend it's a work meeting, because my dog hates phone calls. Also I have to look at the screen even though nothing is there, otherwise he knows I'm faking.

@genmon Yes! I feel like it requires just as much skill, but so much less tedium and confusion. I hadn't gotten into really new territory with Copilot before, so it felt more like fancy autocomplete until I was in that blank-slate scenario.

@jay_gee It’s interesting, right? You need to have your own opinions about architecture and approach in order to ask the right questions, so you keep learning, then it’s really quick to explore

AI coding partners are just googling it but with fewer steps, and I'm here for it. I wrote a VS Code extension last weekend, something I had no mental model for. The examples didn't involve the functionality I needed, but Copilot just kept pulling me forward until I understood.

I patiently await the day when she shows up at my door. After all this time she's ready for a change. I tell her I don't want to change her—I love her—I just want her to become the best version of herself.

The CSS course by @JoshWComeau is one of the best investments I've ever made, and it's inspiring me to dig deep in other "known" areas too. Has anyone taken an online deep-dive SQL course that really impressed you?

I said earlier that the wide availability of cheap clothing has made people lose touch with the cost of making clothes given fair wages. So let's talk about how much a button-up shirt should cost. 🧵

I think about this all the time. I'm living life on the easiest mode possible, and I still have a million lingering todos, a mildly questionable diet, and the hydration level of a tumbleweed that has just caught fire. How are you people doing this?