Helen 侯-Sandí @helenhousandi Twitter profile

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Helen 侯-Sandí

3 years

Still pinching myself that I, a teenage burnout and then classical musician, helped launch the new on top of the software that I also build.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

I've watched this GIF at least 100 times now, cry-laughing the entire time.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

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10 months

As a person deep into her 30s I can confirm that I would absolutely lose my mind if I witnessed this at a party

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5 years

The only 10x engineer

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3 years

What I’m really looking for when hiring an engineer

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8 years

Yeah, sure, it's Asians who all look same.

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6 years

As a mother to a baby girl with fast hands and a belief that all food belongs to her, I look forward to this GIF becoming my reality someday.

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@helenhousandi

7 years

Kinda blows my mind that people who work on software and know it’s basically all duct taped together are willing to have software currency.

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3 years

Every time somebody writes a new library because they didn’t look at what already exists

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6 years

Me getting shit done vs. you

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Helen 侯-Sandí

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10 months

Got promoted from Senior to Staff Software Engineering Manager at @github 🥳

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6 years

Ma I’ve made it!

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@helenhousandi

10 months

@marisamorby Apparently it’s made by Tineco and god help you if you don’t clean out the water tank afterward 😆🤢

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10 months

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10 months

@marisamorby Apparently it’s made by Tineco and god help you if you don’t clean out the water tank afterward 😆🤢

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Helen 侯-Sandí

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2 years

I’m feeling impatient sooooo… next week I’ll be starting @github as a Senior Software Engineering Manager on the ✨extremely cool✨ Special Projects team 🥳 Excited to get to work on quality of life and “wouldn’t it be great if” for OSS and developers everywhere!

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

By age 35, you should have written your own CMS at least once.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

Confession: I actually... do not suffer from imposter syndrome. There’s a lot of stuff I don’t know and I feel like I can’t always talk about it because of the way women’s skills are perceived but I don’t think I’m lesser or unqualified. Y’all usually don’t deserve me tbh.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

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3 years

Can somebody please manufacture this as an iPad stand, thanks in advance

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7 years

lol.

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5 years

@matt_digs People are so distracted by Philly they don’t even notice the most perfect part: the lack of Boston.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

Normalize saying "I don't have an opinion on that right now"

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@helenhousandi

2 years

A tech interview where you have to dig through project management tools, documentation, and commit history to figure out why a piece of code is the way it is

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2 years

Sure, sex and drugs are great, but have you ever opened up the calendars of 7 senior+ managers and managed to find a free slot for you all to meet?

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6 years

@ScribblingOn Children are a delight and also the worst.

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2 years

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2 years

Bless whoever it was who taught me years ago that you can think of i.e. as "in essence" and e.g. as "example given"

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

7 years

I am one of just a few lead developers for OSS that powers 28.5% of the internet* and get paid to do it full-time. #WITBragDay

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8 years

Programmers refusing to reconsider their words in light of effect over intent is funny when you think about how that would go over with code

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@helenhousandi

8 years

Being an open source software maintainer.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

2 years

Put the 3D printer to good use for a gift for the husband, because I am a very serious adult

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

When I announce my new job please do not complain about it unless you are gifting me enough money to retire and log off forever, thanks in advance!!

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@helenhousandi

2 years

New adventure time: I’m now the engineering manager of the @github OSPO 🥳

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

7 years

Open source software development.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

Need a distraction, show me your work-from-home setups! (Yes, I have a very strong aesthetic.)

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

Where do I find backend devs who know what Tiffany blue is

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3 years

When your ask backend developer to choose color palette for the website frontend..

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2 years

Bless whoever it was who taught me years ago that you can think of i.e. as "in essence" and e.g. as "example given"

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

@Ya_momz_b The vegans are unhappy. Don’t let them find out you steal their tofu.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

Oh great now I’m going to have to buy an actual physical copy of @sarah_edo ’s book to show off, like just look at that?????

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

I built a 6x20 ortho keyboard for absolutely no good reason and had a bunch of funny 2U POS keycaps (covers 2 switches) so I set it up with a Space-cadet-esque layout per somebody else’s prompt and I think the only person on Twitter who will appreciate this monstrosity is @Foone

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

9 years

I am one of six lead developers of the software behind a quarter of the internet and #ILookLikeAnEngineer . http://t.co/sUaiRo9S0r

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

2 years

My next gig will be paying me almost 10x as much as my first (mid-level!) web dev job, that is absolutely wild to me

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

5 years

This One Simple Trick Will Make You a Senior Engineer: just keep asking “what’s the problem you’re trying to solve for?”

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

5 years

Imagine reading Tech Twitter and still thinking women are the “overly emotional” ones

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@helenhousandi

4 years

I went looking for some tips to faster dumpling making after folding a couple hundred today and came across this speed wonton wrapping technique and now I feel deeply inadequate???

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

5 years

As promised, I wrote up how I made this little jukebox for my kids! They are loving it and my oldest tells everybody who comes by that "my mommy made this because she's a programmer, like my robotics class" 🥰

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

Hello I am a highly trained classical pianist turned software developer and I wrote a post on what software teams can learn from music masterclasses :)

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

Sometimes I feel envious of y’all with your big tech company comp but then again, I get paid 6 figures to work *part time* on open source stuff after starting out in web dev still living in low income housing so I think it’s still all worked out better than I imagined.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

Computing should be delightful

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@helenhousandi

6 years

May your open source software project live long enough to see “considered harmful” pieces written about it.

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@helenhousandi

4 years

"Your English is so good!"

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@helenhousandi

4 years

I need more company swag to be things like packing cubes and scrunchies instead of yet another ill-fitting t-shirt and my 800th water bottle.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

I made my own USB-C cable today so that’s pretty cool

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

2 years

Tech people and really anybody who works sitting all day: do your deadlifts now, your back and posture will thank me later.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe I made cookies and left them out to cool for 30 minutes and they threw them out and screamed at me for taunting them for being on diets which I did not know because they never mentioned it!! Very mild but I was broke and it was v annoying to lose a rare treat that way.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

7 years

Momgineering: built a custom LEGO replacement for a missing train track bridge support.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

Sometimes I think about how cool you people are who livestream your coding sessions and what if I tried that but nobody wants to watch me Google shit for 2 hours

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

@stimmyskye @selfawaresoup I don’t even know where to start with this and can only hope you are trying to be funny

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@helenhousandi

2 years

Since my GitHub handle is just “helen” now I get to have helen @github .com for my email address 😎

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Helen 侯-Sandí

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7 years

Look at all these sewing kits!

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@helenhousandi

5 years

I consider myself to be boringly straight but then also I-

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

Go fuck yourself.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

Wow a lot of you have HBO Max

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

Possibly unpopular opinion: most people are not more efficient working from home and many are just not suited for it at all. That may be a personality thing or an environment thing or both. But that’s been my experience after 9 years of working remotely!

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

@ivanstegic @skamille If you are pouring boiling water into a regular glass you have an entirely different problem, are you just unable to help yourself or something

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4 years

Oh wow I got served a programmer+plant person TikTok that also includes a joke/meme that appears earlier in this thread, the algorithm is strong

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4 years

Am I doing this right

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

2 years

Gonna start a rumor that Twitter Notes uses WordPress as a backend

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

You know, I was thinking that WordPress 5.6 could really use that “one more thing”...

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@helenhousandi

4 years

When I started working on WordPress it was ~15% of the web, now we’re at 38.5%. It was scary enough at the beginning, now it’s absolutely terrifying to be sitting here doing my due diligence before making a decision on a significant technical feature.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

Sorry to step into The Discourse but after being a singularly remote person on a team and now at a fully distributed company IMO remote work isn’t an individual choice the same way getting a vaccine isn’t an individual choice, the whole group has to commit for it to work well.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

Ahhhhh finally!! My Astrolokeys keycaps had been stuck in the US since April and finally made it home to me. @sailorhg and @cassidoo really made something magical ✨

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

Ask and you shall receive

🎹 sharon su is on bluesky 🎹

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4 years

If I don’t see one of you slapping the Rite of Spring over this in the next hour then this website just shouldn’t exist

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@helenhousandi

5 years

Random old white American man at the grocery store heard my 6yo talking to me and comes up to say “I thought you were speaking Chinese but it’s English! Your English is really good! Where are you from?” I’m stuck staring and my child, bless him, replies “New Jersey”.

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@helenhousandi

5 years

The completed bacon-eggbread-and-cheese 🥰

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@helenhousandi

5 years

One thing I've noticed after working remotely for so long is that I get unreasonably annoyed when texting with people who don't optimize their text communication, like when somebody texts hey how are you i have a question are you busy I want to throw them away.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

Personal news for real this time: I’ve wrapped up my long, long tenure at @10up and am taking a little break before I head into something new in the new year.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

Hello I have been a full-time programmer for 10 years and at the director level for the last 5 of them and I just looked up how to make a URL in Markdown for the eleventy billionth time.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

3 years

Being surprised that a piece of software that powers 40% of the web is behind high profile websites because your conception is that it’s bad says more about your experience and insecurity than the software’s experience and security ✌️

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

2 years

Oh god damn it

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

5 years

@seldo So... yes we have a tripod with a phone mount somewhere but I couldn’t find it this morning so I put my Pixel in a conf speaker swag selfie stick inside a vase with my Kindle on top to keep it from tipping over 😂

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

10 years

“So are you a mommy blogger?” No, I just make the software that empowers them.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

When dudes want to get spicy on a pull request.

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@helenhousandi

6 years

@girlposts Thanks for stealing my tweet! At least change a word or something, damn.

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@helenhousandi

6 years

I've watched this GIF at least 100 times now, cry-laughing the entire time.

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4 years

Today my husband asked my 3yo what she was doing on her toy laptop and she glared at him and said "I'm WORKING" and all he could manage to do was respond "okay", I haven't stopped laughing since.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

A thing I try to do as a leader who often works odd hours to prioritize family time: when I send people Slack messages at non-core working hours for them, I preface with “not urgent” or “for response during working hours” so if they see a notification it’s less alarming.

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8 years

Welp.

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@helenhousandi

8 years

So far people who are unamused are pretty evenly split between "get back to being a model minority" and "BUT ANDERSON COOPER".

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

6 years

My mom likes to tell this story about how when my sister was learning to walk in front of the library at Columbia some kid shook the rope to knock her down and I punched him in the face. I think this may be photographic evidence.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

I used to think "abolish the police" was an extreme approach, but then I grew the fuck up and realized that you can't incrementally fix organizations formed to protect the racist status quo. Fuck the police. Abolish the police. Make something new.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

5 years

Last night a man who specifically works in WP asked me if I had been “dragged here” by the man I was standing next to. 🙃 He might see this and feel embarrassed, idk, but y’all should know this is what we deal with, even in a position like mine.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

2 years

Convinced that 50% of internet nostalgia is yearning to explicitly be offline again

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

Tech people love to hate on luxury fashion, meanwhile LVMH (owns LV, Givenchy, etc) already switched perfume factories over to making hand sanitizer while Elongated Muskrat is out here talking about “if there’s a shortage”, I guess the existing shortage must not meet his criteria

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Helen 侯-Sandí

@helenhousandi

4 years

My first month of remote work I hung up on a video call not even a full second before my husband came RUNNING into my office fresh (and I mean FRESH) out of the shower to do a stupid dance for me. He has not once burst into my office in the 8.5 years since.

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Helen 侯-Sandí

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Lead developer for 38% of the internet let’s goooooo who else is out there