Janessa Garrow

Today seems like a good day to permanently ditch this app. Catch me over on 🦋 @ bsky.app/profile/janess…

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/

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/

PSA: Using Agile/SCRUM is not excuse to create poorly documented tickets/designs.

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!

#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

@c_estclairee HONESTLY. And then they had us dissecting cats on the 2nd floor in June at like 1:00pm 🥵🤢

@dustinsgoodman Like, I know what interpretation of that word it’s supposed to be, but my brain just can’t unlink it from the alternative 🙃 I inwardly cringe every time someone uses it

@JanessaGarrow I had someone point this out to me 2 years ago and ngl, I never thought twice about it before that moment. Then they pointed it out and I was like "oh yeah... that was really bad." Ever since - I stopped using the word and have trained my teams on the same.

Can we as a tech industry stop using the term “grooming” 😖 “refining” is RIGHT THERE and is a far less cringe-inducing word

@LeahLibresco Smartttt

@JanessaGarrow I was called for week ~38 and sent in a note from my midwife and got preemptively excused.

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?

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.

@eveporcello @blackgirlbytes @cassidoo @marisamorby @jlengstorf @ceeoreo_ @shaundai @shrutikapoor08 @mxstbr Woohoo, can’t wait!! 🤗

The Last Tech Podcast launches next week - June 6! I've been lucky to get to talk to... @blackgirlbytes @cassidoo @marisamorby @jlengstorf @ceeoreo_ @shaundai @shrutikapoor08 @mxstbr ... so far. And, many, many, many more to come!

@ceeoreo_ Having kids has forced me (in a good way) to be more flexible and adaptable, but also to be better about setting boundaries. I’ve had to get better at time management and prioritizing to reduce my stress levels. I plan all the things now or they don’t happen 😅

I have a question for parents in tech, especially moms. How has having children impacted your career? I wanna hear the good, the bad and the ugly. Tell me whatever you’re comfortable sharing :P

@ralex1993 @remix_run Gotcha gotcha. Our React app just doesn’t use a framework rn, so I’ve been putting together notes and things around why we should move to Remix. My interest was very piqued with the Rails comment haha

@ralex1993 @remix_run “The folks working in Rails say they really like Remix” Say more 👀 I’m trying to figure out how to encourage Remix adoption at work and our backend services are all Rails

@maxcell @DrewGreenDraws Oh my goodness, this is so amazing!

@JeffAuriemma I’ll check it out, thanks!

@JanessaGarrow I used The Rails Tutorial when I learned, though it was quite a while ago. It used to be free but now it's a paid offering. If the quality has stayed the same, I'd consider it well worth the price: learnenough.com/ruby-on-rails-… Also anything by Sandi Metz!

Alright friends, turns out my new role is more full stack and not just frontend. Gimme your favorite Rails learning resources!