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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

some fanart for @llvmorg

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 months

big tech is going to poison itself with ai slop so badly we’re all gonna go back to hanging out on phpbb boards

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

guess it’s really over huh

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

9 years

Oh okay.

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

level 0: working on software and finding a compiler bug level 1: working on compilers and finding a libc bug level 2: working on libc and finding a hardware bug level 3: working on hardware and finding a bug in the laws of physics

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

tech tip: you can be both smart and not an asshole

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

I had a few minutes while building LLVM and I ended up making advanced compiler fanart

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

thinking about gators

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

my boyfriend is super interested in ssds right now and gave me a big basic ssd explainer last night and now i’m even less confident that computers even work

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

bf proposed a c++ standard library feature to me last night

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

IT HAPPENED

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

There will be no higher point in my career #wwdc19

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 months

you think duck typing is bad? wait until you see their handwriting

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

I’m ready to go to Safeway

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

i’m the fucked up software user of your nightmares. there’s not a single a program i’ve used correctly. i’ll click on shit in ways you’ve never dreamt possible at times that shouldn’t exist

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

MODERNITY: learning about compilers by reading the dragon book POST-MODERNITY: baiting industry professional compiler engineers on twitter to teach you compilers by shitposting about inlining or fastmath or something

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

First day working in the office in like 2 years. Commuting is a massive waste of time.

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

idea: Computer but good

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

I feel like the “awkward programmer without communication skills” stereotype is bad for programmers. Writing code (for work) is largely a social activity. You write code for others to read. You write tests and asserts (in part) to express your assumptions.

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

calling on malware programmers to go back to the cool malware that makes a choo choo train run across your terminal every ~18 hours or whatever

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 months

silicon valley is unique in that it’s the only place on the planet where you can watch a dude who works on the torture nexus argue with the dude who works on the puppy grinder (it grinds 12,000 puppies per second) over who is less ethical

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

LET’S WRITE A C++ PROGRAM I’ll start int

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

user facing programs: fucked compiler: fucked os: fucked ssd firmware: fucked the physical underpinnings of all computing: yeah that’s fucked too

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

i took this photo on april 4 and cannot remember why

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

there’s a surprising amount of overlap between “best practices for body language and gestures when giving a presentation to a large group” and “common advice for how to make yourself look larger if you encounter a bear”

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

I have completed my second compiler fanart @llvmorg

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

an important, but little spoken-of milestone in a programmer's career is the point where they begin experimenting with farming

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

tbh surprised anyone wants return to office when mild covid can easily knock out entire healthy employees for like a week

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

A lot of software engineering is writing code to help you figure out which code you should actually write

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

whenever I try to use an IDE instead of a text editor I feel like I'm using a computer for the first time click the flub pane and navigate to the florb editor and then click on zingo buddy my brain is tiny

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

me earlier: ugh okay who's the jackass that broke this code me 10 seconds later: oH IT'S ME

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

If you could recommend ONE book to programmers, what would it be?

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

RANDOM LIFE TIP: 1) get a pull up bar 2) just kinda hang off of it and let it just entirely unfuck your dumb nerd back

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

Corporations making folks who don’t want to return to the office go back seems foolish. Never heard of an anxious, unhappy, and frustrated person doing the best work of their life

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

you ever wonder if you’ve written a bug that’s killed someone

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

bay area cost of living is like fresh out of uni junior engineer: >$2k rent in 1960s apartment 15 years senior engineer with 4x the income: $1k mortgage, negligible property taxes

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

not a single day passes where i'm not floored that i, a métis girl that grew up in a poor household, ended up in the bay area working on compilers

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

Oh, you like math, huh? Then name every real number

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

9 years

whenever i try to explain how cool graph theory is to people they're like so it's connect the dots for adults

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

1 year

I went to get a fruit drink at a cafe and they told me to go upstairs and there are just dudes making music with modified bar code scanners and CRTs

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

any% twitter bankruptcy speedrun

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

clang/llvm protip: if you use -fsave-optimization-record, you can grep for passed opt remarks to see which files in your project actually used an optimization! similarly, you can use it to see where the compiler thought about doing something but didn’t.

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

It’s Canada Day so I’m legally required to wear this or I’ll lose my citizenship

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

Did you ever play Sim City and activate all of the disasters at once just to see what would happen? Well that’s California right now

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

Popular unpopular opinion: I actually like that the tech industry allows you to dress like some sort of keyboard-wielding Diogenes. If I could work from a barrel in an alley on the fringes of society I would consider it

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

dynamax boy

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

My boyfriend and I were talking about programmer personalities/work styles as RPG classes but the twist is that there has to be an upside and a downside to each class

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

i hate the terms "junior engineer" and "senior engineer" so much junior: HEY LIL BUDDY WANNA GO TO DQ AND GET AN ICE CREAM CONE senior: mariam where are my teeth i need to talk to ryan on the telephone and ask him how to get on the email again

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

wait there's a now

Decompiler Explorer

Decompiler Explorer is an interactive online decompiler which shows equivalent C-like output of decompiled programs from many popular decompilers.

dogbolt.org

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 months

imo we should stop giving names to generational cohorts (ipad babies, zoomers, millennials), and accept the natural order of things: <18: incomprehensible memes 19-26: cool young people 27-29: cringe young people 30-35: embracing cringe

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

compiler construction club

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

the llvm dragon is a girl

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

we have reached peak bay area housing

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

7 months

IF YOU HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY RECENT LAYOFFS AND ARE AN EXPERIENCED LLVM GENERALIST and have any interest whatsoever in moving to Tokyo (which I strongly recommend), we are hiring compiler engineers to work on LLVM in open source. APPLY:

Woven by Toyota - Compiler Engineer

TEAM Arene's goal is to open vehicle programming to everyone by simplifying vehicle software development and increasing deployment frequency without compromising safety and security. This will create...

jobs.lever.co

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

hello fellow gamers, you might be wondering why i called all of you here today

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

“why don’t you wear makeup?” “i facepalm a lot”

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

you learnt increasingly advanced concepts in c++ to advance you career. i learnt increasingly advanced concepts in c++ to write better shitposts on the internet. we are not the same

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

you ever just feel like the 1990s computer thinking noise

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

For any students interested in learning more about code generation, I'm looking for an intern to supervise. Send your resume and why you think compilers are cool along to llvm-job-apply @group .apple.com to apply~

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

you know you work on a compiler when you know a slight inliner change is a major difference ()

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

whenever there’s game/graphics programming drama and i take a look it’s like the same 5 dudes every time. come on release some new dudes or something

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

@dril @leyawn it’s turd brand you non-fungible shithead

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

I strongly advise against needing medical help while living in the USA

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

That probably was my best WWDC yet. Aside from speaking, dancing around and having conversations with conference attendees was super fun. Now, time to go home and sleep.

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

TECH TIP: don’t

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

FYI the LLVM Developer’s Meeting has a great lineup of beginner tutorials this year. If you’re interested at all in compilers, or contributing to LLVM/Clang, I recommend checking them out. ()

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

Wait They Put A Markov Chain In My What?

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

6 years at 

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

30 days

@kittydisks getting hacked by gay furries was all part of my plan

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

wondering who it is at google who works on the biking directions in google maps and thinks "ah yes, the lawrence expressway, my favourite bike route"

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our multimillionaire neighbour

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

I’m not ready

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

in concept I like working from home but in reality you need a home which actually is a good working environment

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

vim vs emacs arguments between programmers are the same as ford vs chevy arguments between truck enthusiasts, but more boring because programmers aren’t witty enough to come up with dad joke acronyms like “fourth on race day”

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

work from office perks include regular covid exposure

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

JOB AD: If you're interested in compilers and open source LLVM, my team is hiring!

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

The reason Bay Area house prices are so high is that Bay Area culture, beauty, and amenities are world-class

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

1 year

come be my compiler buddy in tokyo!!

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

2 years

if I was a prof I’d use top tier cringe-based teaching methods to make my students physically incapable of zoning out in class. I’d get abysmal reviews and would be fired quickly, but they’d learn C ptrs perfectly. At least one of my slides would have Shadow the Hedgehog on it

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 months

tokyo’s public transit system has improved my daily life so much that the idea of living anywhere without equivalent transit would legitimately feel like a huge downgrade in quality of life

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

I present to you the glow-up of the century

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

i’m wearing the poofy dress

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

i found these giant pink sunglasses and i’m going to wear them everywhere now

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

when i was a kid i actually printed out the parental consent form for using the forums under the age of 13 and had my parents fax it to them because i thought neopets would get me arrested if i lied about my age

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

A thought about the software interviewing process: I haven’t heard of too many people testing interview questions on their coworkers before using them on candidates. I feel like testing questions on a group of people with the qualities you want would be useful.

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

please help me identify this snail

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

Half-baked thought: after years of schooling + work, it’s more difficult to enjoy hobbies, because you develop a need to “feel productive” (setting self deadlines, expectations to finish things, etc). Life is more fulfilling when your hobbies don’t have strict deliverables.

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

I call this style “hello I’m in my 20s and work on a compiler”

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

4 years

git discourse is always so funny me a few years ago: i would like to update this text file git tutorial: easy, here just look at this digraph representing multiple branching timelines showing the past states the text file was in in parallel universes me: how do i undo

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

In any case, I hope this reaches every other nerdy, awkward girl interested in computers: you can do it. I believe in you. We're all rooting for you. Even when things are looking hopeless, you can do it, no matter what. I've got your back.

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

me: i mean it’s not really *that hard* of a problem, you just gotta copy some things around boyfriend: you just described every single problem in computer science

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

cheap bay area entertainment 1) make a nextdoor account 2) post something along the lines of "It would be nice if people parked their cars in their garages. It's hard to see between the cars when you want to cross the street, and I think we could better use the space." 3) wait

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

3 years

if we end up getting to a phi variant can you imagine the compiler jokes

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

compiler construction club membership badges

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

WWDC is actually about fashion

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

OH LAWD SHE COMIN. Say hi and come to the LLVM talk later! #WWDC19

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

@dril how to disengage combat? urgent

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

1 year

wrote a few notes on how/why I decided to move to Tokyo for anyone interested: tl;dr is "let a girl walk (and have a space large enough that she can cook her friends dinner if she wants)"

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

6 years

my second piece of LLVM fanart

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Jessica Paquette

@barrelshifter

5 years

oh my god

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