Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane @RebeccaSlatkin Twitter profile

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

Accidentally wired a 30% downpayment for a home to the wrong bank account. That money is now gone forever. Just kidding. it was quickly flagged by the bank and reversed. Grateful for federal bank regulations.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

8 years

Carry yourself w/the confidence of a girl holding a massive owl.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

A month ago my painter said he didn't show up because his dad died dead. He asked for money for his funeral. I declined (This was the 2,342th excuse for not showing up.) He ended up abandoning the project & left all his equipment here. Today his father came to pick up his stuff.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

Should I buy the new AirPods or just leave $199 in the next Uber I take?

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@RebeccaSlatkin

1 year

@Jujubaparaosamg @ask_aubry I had to live 4 days on this earth carrying twins who I knew had 0 viability and we elected to terminate at 19 weeks. Worst 4 days of my life. If I had to live for months in that situation I would have needed to be institutionalized.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

@AlannaBennett Night before a business trip I realized I booked a flight for the wrong month. Called my boss ( @brianmoconnor ) told him I needed to book a $2500 flight. While sobbing I said "This is the dumbest thing I have ever done!" My dad in the next room hollered, "LIKE HELL IT IS"

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@RebeccaSlatkin

7 years

[on my death bed, struggling to speak] me: if..your..unit..test..makes..a..network..call..it's..not..a..unit..test.. [dies]

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

me: *cheering and celebrating in front of computer* him: did you figure the problem????!! me: no, even better. I was able to get it to crash consistently. him: me: him: ok

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

A podcast where software developers invite professionals not in tech to rant for 60 minutes about the shit software they're forced to use at their job.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

1 year

@VenusRRVelez @ask_aubry "Don't do the crime." !?!?!?!??!!? ahhhhhhh

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

A lot of people on twitter will tell you how to live, how to work, how to code, how to prioritize, how to be a leader blah blah when they themselves have yet to figure it out. Don’t confuse confident writing with success.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

Friend trying to explain to me some complex inventory system: Ok, lets start with something simple... like a date. Me: *shudders* Uh, I can’t think of anything more complicated than a date. Friend: Not like human courtship. I mean date like January 1, 2019. Me: Yeah, I know.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

1 year

At age 34 I've never purchased a television. I assumed they were very expensive because..obviously? Walked to the Best Buy TV section with my husband and asked him, "What's our budget for this? Like $3,000?" 2 floor employees were suddenly very eager to help us. TIL.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

I don't want a 25 year old life coach. I want a 93 year old to tell me the best way to live my life.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

9 years

What recruiters think I want: Beer cart, ping pong table What I really want: Silence, coworkers with good table manners, attention to UX

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

Please don't derail your career with React Native. I took a year off from iOS Development in 2018 to pursue a project that used RN. It was nothing but a year of frustration. The end result will not be anything you're proud of. Spare yourself. Sincerely, Your Elder

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@RebeccaSlatkin

9 years

My mom thinks Github is the name of a bar I hangout at. I'm not going to correct her.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

ho-ly....

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@RebeccaSlatkin

10 years

At 6y/o my software development training began when my dog went missing & I followed his tracks 5mi into the woods. He was in the garage.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

Confession: When I was a junior dev my boss regularly dismissed my (valid) feedback about our app's garbage design & interface. Feeling discouraged, I left numerous 1 star reviews under different pseudonyms (& accounts) with the same feedback. Soon enough we had a new interface😇

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

@AlannaBennett @brianmoconnor @brianmoconnor then insisted he be put on speaker while my parents listed my stupidest moments

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@RebeccaSlatkin

4 years

We did a thing.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

My grandmother just called me at midnight to wish me a happy birthday. I thoughtfully thanked her but reminded her my birthday is in August. Without missing a beat she said, “I’m 91. I run the show around here. I’ll tell you when it’s your birthday.”

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@RebeccaSlatkin

8 years

Protip: if you ever spot your sister at Whole Foods, triple check it's really her before you ram your cart into hers and shout "Hey, Loser!"

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

When a stranger wants to tell me their app idea and I can't easily get away, I advise them not to say any more about it until I sign a NDA.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

Next year: M1 Max Pro_Final_Final

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@RebeccaSlatkin

9 years

What a Pull Request looked like in 1988. http://t.co/BtRWlPX7Cn

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@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

New devs: The key to success is ignoring people like this. They were put on this earth to make you doubt yourself. Press on.

James Coplien

@jcoplien

6 years

If coding doesn't feel like painting or passionate creative writing, you have at least another level to master before calling yourself a programmer.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

4 years

If you’re venturing out and can’t decide if you should wear a mask... today marks my 31 y/o cousin’s 78th(ish) day of hospitalization due to COVID & is working on facial exercises like relearning how to furrow her brow while a nurse props up her head b/c she can’t do it herself.

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@MarkHarrisNYC

4 years

Yesterday was the first day since March that there were no new Covid-19 deaths in Manhattan. Keep wearing your masks and keep social distancing. It works.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

Man in elevator: Whoa, your kids are lucky. How old? Me, carrying two lego sets and an Arduino physic kit: Um...I forget.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

Thinking about the time my mom, curious about my job, asked how the "rear-end development" is going

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@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

Based on my feed 90% of running a startup is telling strangers on the internet how to run a startup

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@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

If you’re nervous to speak up in an engineering meeting fearing you might say something stupid I’m here to remind you that your internet friend Rebecca confidently referred to her IUD instead of IDE TWICE in a 50 person all male engineering meeting and lived to tweet about it.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

Vet just called me from parking lot asking me to come inside because Banting won't stop crying. I explained it's not because he's sad or scared it's because he knows someone has cheese & isn't offering it up. 2 mins later "Yep, tech had cheese flavored treats in her pocket."

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@RebeccaSlatkin

1 year

We walked out with a $750 television. I don't know the specs beyond that because I've never been less interested in a purchase in my life.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Take the trip. Eat the cake. Rename the table.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

Oh no, the crypto bros found my tweet.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

@AlannaBennett @brianmoconnor As a kid I proudly showed my mom a big jar of fireflies and their “house” I found in the yard. My mom not paying attention insisted I let them go. I immediately emptied the contents of the jar onto the living room rug. They were hornets. Angry hornets. Along with a small nest.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

A very specific feeling: Googling a confusing algorithmic problem and the top result is my explanation of said problem I posted on Stack Overflow in 2009.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

Do I buy the new AirPods or save myself time and just put $179 in the washing machine?

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

@heyalexfriedman A few years ago I searched on Facebook an address to a house I was interested in buying. I found out from the comments the house had a flooding issue and a fire that hadn't been disclosed.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

4 years

A decade ago my mom walked into the laundry room and found me crouched inside the dryer attempting to reproduce a bug only reproducible under poor wifi conditions. She said nothing and walked out but later awkwardly brought up the adverse effects of smoking too much pot.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

23 days

@clhubes Just want you to know I'm in the same boat and I'm ripshit about it. Someone told me it's because we hold on to weight for a survival mechanism. Like, we retain weight in case there is a famine and we need to make milk to feed our babies. Whatever. As I walk the aisles of the

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

Tweet your worst deploys to prod right before the holidays. Let’s scare some people tonight. I’ll go: (~2011) the day before the App Store closed for holiday break I pushed an app update that broke user registration. ...we were featured in the App Store over holiday break.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

@whattheFELK When I lived in Brookline a woman at the dog park told me she sampled her elderly dog's pill and then proceeded to sleep for 3 days

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@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

“Do you have any cars with less code?” - me, looking at cars

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@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

Whenever I see an if-else statement without curly braces I assume the author wasn’t getting much of an adrenaline rush from train surfing and found a new way to tempt fate.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

7 years

Junior developers / people trying to learn how to code: beware of term droppers. They were put on this earth to make you doubt yourself.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

Recall training around wildlife is going great thanks for asking.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

Generally speaking, the fewer lines of code in a program the easier it is to maintain, understand, and debug. This old Mercedes ad leaves me in a state of panic of apprehension and horrid curiosity.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

2 months

@TheAndrewNadeau Politics aside this is insane behavior

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@RebeccaSlatkin

8 years

Rebecca died doing what she loved: Explaining to a designer that a modal screen on top of a modal screen is terrible.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 months

@naturallyneve I’d smile too if I didn’t need to profit from a farm to survive. Next time use a picture of a family of farmers who don’t have 7 figure inheritances to fall back on.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

Hardest part about teaching iOS development is explaining to a student that the 3 hours they spent trying to compile their app I fixed by closing and relaunching Xcode.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

@AlannaBennett @brianmoconnor And it took getting struck by an ice cream truck traveling at a slow speed to understand why you’re supposed to CHASE the ice cream truck...not run in front of it. Although I’d argue my approach was more effective.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

Developer explaining why a refactor took 3x longer than estimate: *lights cigarette* We marched east slowly then Smith stepped on a boobytrapped artillery round and *leans back in chair* the carnage was the worst I’ve ever seen.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

Tonight I reassured a crying drunk girl in the bathroom that the shitty guy she met on Bumble is just a UICollectionViewCell w/ a reuse identifier. She held my face in her wet, mascara-y hands and said "YOU ARE SO RIGHT"

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@RebeccaSlatkin

7 years

i'm at that sweet spot in life where i don't have friends or kids

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@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

I called to cancel my Adobe Cloud membership and after 2 hours on the phone with a rep Im happy to announce im now a partial owner of a timeshare in Orlando, FL.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

7 years

My mom threw out my dad's AirPods because she mistook them for "toothbrush replacement heads" & was disgusted to find them loose in his car.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

4 years

@lucyleid Today I learned I need more furniture for my squirrels

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@RebeccaSlatkin

7 years

Setting up literally anything on AWS

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

SOMETIMES I WRITE "SLOPPY" CODE WHEN WORKING OUT AN APPROACH. I APOLOGIZE TO MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOR THIS SHAMEFUL ADMISSION. TO APPLE AND MICROSOFT: I HOPE ONE DAY TO WRITE CODE WORTHY OF YOUR ADMIRATION AND WORSHIP LIKE DAN HERE UNTIL THEN I MUST GO SIT IN MY OWN SLOP.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

If WWDC goes back to an in person event, labs should remain virtual and available to everyone. The opportunity to meet with an Apple engineer to discuss a problem shouldn't just be given to those with the means and time to attend WWDC in person.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

How could this happen??? Did every developer on the team responsible for this successfully demonstrate in their interview how to partition an array such that all non-zero values are at the beginning????? I hope they’re investigating.

Techmeme

@Techmeme

5 years

Facebook admits it stored some user passwords in plain text, searchable by employees; source says it may have been between 200M and 600M user passwords (Krebs on Security)

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

4 years

Sometimes I read Stripe's API docs just to keep myself humble

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

7 years

Young Memory Leak

𝔐𝔦𝔵𝔱𝔞𝔭𝔢

@mixtapekevin

7 years

Your rap name is young + the reason you cried last

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@RebeccaSlatkin

7 years

I see Xcode as my quirky, slightly unstable friend who occasionally gets drunk in the middle of a work day, shouts nonsense then blacks out

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@RebeccaSlatkin

9 years

git regret --hard

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

4 years

Dear Android Developers, Sorry for all the jokes I made when I only had to support 3 devices.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

1 year

@ChristianSelig I relied heavily on a subreddit support group during a difficult time in my life. For months Apollo was the first app I opened when I woke up and the last one I closed before going to sleep. Thank you for building such a brilliant app.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

Coding on someone else's laptop feels like wearing someone else's pants. Thank you for your time.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

Don't listen to the naysayers. Deploy that update to prod the day before Thanksgiving. Misery is empowering when it's on your terms.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

What I thought burnout was: *yawn* I'm tired of writing code. I think I'll take time to learn a new skill. What burnout really is: Congratulating myself for mustering up the energy to change my socks.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

He was wearing a nice outfit today

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

$400 dog bed 10’ away and yet

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

if you're new to software development please don't let people who write or speak like this make you second guess yourself. keep going.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

@jessicaliebman You know taking a day off work, going someplace unfamiliar, then participating in ~8 hours of technical and personal interviews is exhausting, right?

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

I have 12 years of iOS experience and even this "roadmap" makes me want to bail. If you're a prospective developer: Don't read into this nonsense. Just start!! Seriously. Stop scrolling and get going.

Rubén Arce Santolaya

@ruben_arce_s

3 years

IOS Developer Roadmap @ruben_arce_s #BigData #Analytics #MachineLearning #CyberSecurity #RStats #TensorFlow #javascript #CloudComputing #Serverless #Linux #database #DataScience #100DaysofCode #ML #devops #php #AI #digital #opensource #DeepLearning #digitaltransformation

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@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

Hybrid App: Look at me! I'm inexpensive! Easy to maintain! I live in one codebase! Business people love me! I'm amazing! *Politely asks hybrid app to dismiss the keyboard before popping view* Hybrid App:

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

The WWDC leaks so far are so lame. It’s the worldwide DEVELOPERS conference. Leak the stuff we care about like improved Xcode compile times, or a pre-recorded video where Craig looks directly into the camera and says, “Rebecca, I am deeply sorry for CloudKit.”

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

Then there was this fiasco.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

all relevant and related

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@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

Are your legs cold? There's an app for that!

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@RebeccaSlatkin

3 months

@amandaorson let the damn birthday ice cream cake melt to liquid before even considering picking up the knife to cut and serve

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

Yeah life sucks right now but 18 months ago we were all on Clubhouse listening to narcissists talk about themselves so

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

@1followernodad no jury will convict you

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@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

@AlannaBennett @brianmoconnor Oh, while learning how to drive stick shift I left my car in neutral and it rolled down my street. It stopped eventually.... when it hit my neighbor’s house. Pretty sure @brianmoconnor was actually sobbing at this point.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

My 10 y/o arthritic dog really embracing the work smarter, not harder mentality.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

@amuldotexe jUst TriPlE cHeCk tHe NumBerS -Advice from a person who checked the numbers 3x and still managed to wire hundreds of thousands of dollars to the wrong place

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

4 years

That’s weird, all the unit tests passed.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

3 years

excuse me

DuanRui段锐

@duanrui1205

3 years

More and more people are buying a MacBook Pro without a screen to use as a Mac mini. Not only does it have a trackpad and keyboard, but it also has better speakers, and the main price is particularly affordable.

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@RebeccaSlatkin

4 years

I UNDERSTAND SELF SIZING COLLECTION VIEW CELLS

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

I WON THE ELECTION!

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

Someone tried to aggressively rope me into a heated political conversation tonight and I steered that ship safely away from politics and straight into a concrete wall I like to call, "I like PHP."

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

6 years

idea: a Hogwarts Sorting Hat that magically determines your tech stack

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

Feeling for all the product people, engineers, marketers, etc who likely killed themselves for months to try to make AirPower happen. While shipping a subpar product would have been wrong, never seeing your hardwork ship suuuuuuucks.

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

5 years

Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware by @panzer

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

4 years

Please just stay home. I’m begging you. My healthy 30 y/o cousin could be any of us.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

2 years

I checked and it's possible to unfollow me without sending me a DM to explain why you're unfollowing me.

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Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane

@RebeccaSlatkin

5 years

If you’re a Twitter employee and impacted by the indefinite work from home policy, reach out. I’m happy to share my expertise in pajamas jeans, minimum showers per week, and ways to clean your refrigerator without actually moving anything.

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