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Karina Chow

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Screw the rules, I have green hair | 🇨🇳🇩🇪🇺🇸 SF Bay native | tech × design × art × psych | @ITP_NYU grad student, ex-engineer @Patreon , @Microsoft , @honor

San Francisco & Brooklyn

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Joined April 2013

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@karomancer

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2 years

My Twitter bio is (intentionally) useless so here's a quick intro: Hello world! I'm Karina and I'm a creative technologist. I studied Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon and spent 10 years working as a software engineer in San Francisco (1/7)

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9 months

You know what to do...

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Supabase. AWS. TypeScript. Apollo. Nextjs. Ah, yes. The SATAN stack.

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2 years

I don't understand the Twitter accounts that have 10k+ followers and don't tweet anything other than those "As a developer..." questions and weird threaded advice of how to be successful that doesn't apply to half the population But I guess that's why I don't have 10k followers

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Why do everyday Americans feel so strongly that they have to belong to a political party? Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for all of us to be party-less and then just listen to what's being offered and vote instead of pledging allegiance like we do with sports teams?

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1 year

How do you comfort a JavaScript bug? You console it.

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2 years

Glasses: yea or nay? I used to hate wearing them and thought they looked dorky, but it's growin' on me...

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11 months

People who WFH every day: How often do you leave the house?

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1 year

And the award goes to ...

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1 year

@NoContextHumans Lilac. Brown. (Cotton Candy | Hot) Pink. Cyan. Mustard. Marigold. Gold. Indigo. Gray (depending on dialect) Platinum. Tan. Black. (though technically it's a value, not a color) I could go on!

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@greg16676935420 Got any grapes?

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10 months

Try/catch was so 2023. It's all about fuckaround/findout.

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6 months

One of my classmates made little stickers for us for when we finish presenting our theses. Nice little commemorative selfie to celebrate! 🥳

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9 months

First day of classes is the perfect excuse to try out some new fashion. Gotta say, this is quickly becoming my new favorite shirt. Gotta start the school year right, you know?

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1 year

@BuggaThe @ClownWorld_ You say that as if we all unilaterally voted for this.

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1 year

@InternetH0F Let's start with brute force

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9 months

Sometimes I wonder...am I testing my code or is my code testing me?

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1 year

@BleylDev @historyinmemes I was going to choose the exact 3. That said I was a child before all 3 and was still depressed haha

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1 year

What do you like coding in better? C, C#, or C++?

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2 years

@akash_webdev Yeah you're right. I should spell it out. for (int eye = 0; eye < arr.length; eye++) { ... }

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6 months

I met a 19 year old student today who guessed I was 21. Then guessed 25. Then guessed 23. I'm 32. When I told her she was totally shocked and thought I was joking. This whole interaction was the best compliment I could have possibly received. 🤣

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10 months

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 Wearing my favorite Christmas outfit and celebrating with my whole family. Hope your day is filled with joy and good food :)

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1 year

@InternetH0F How many positions can we do? Are you ok with repetitions ?

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1 year

@Andrew072285 @wiseconnector It's a sequence question, not an arithmetic one. It's 96 n + j => (n × j) + j 1 + 4 = (1 × 4) + 1 = 5 2 + 5 = 10 + 2 = 12 ... 8 + 11 = (8 × 11) + 8 = 96

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11 months

I have some of the coolest classmates 😍 He made a solar system display with gears and has lots of cool plans for the next iteration. So cool

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1 year

@DamianGiglio @PoxoOfTheDay Why would you buy a new chair if your currently chair is perfectly fine and can be easily fixed or reupholstered? Seems like a waste of money and wasteful in general

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4 months

@AdamLowisz @elonmusk As a girl with blue/green hair, I'm not ashamed or scared to say I liked this meme.

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2 years

@dduncandb Agreed. There's a great meme for this actually... All credit to Den Delimarsky. (See his other Seinfeld dev memes here: )

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11 months

YUP

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2 months

What a weird time we're living in. More than half of my friends are (f)unemployed, either by choice or layoff. Half are in a hurry to find a new job but can't find one, and half are too burnt out to even conceive of working again soon. Times have changed since the early 2010s.

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11 months

Christmas is all about giving, so I'm giving up.

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7 months

Shut up and take my money.

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2 years

@endingwithali Do I make the cut?

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5 months

damn.

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1 year

What's the worst way to treat a JavaScript function? Make a bunch of promises and then never return.

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3 years

@michael_kove @SushrutKM 👆This. My CS degree was 70% mathematics, 20% coding, and 10% other (e.g. technical writing, entrepreneurship, etc). It was hard, and I sucked at it, but it helped me develop a logical thinking pattern that makes me an excellent software developer/engineer today.

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1 year

Today was my best friend's wedding! She's a huge fantasy nerd, so I surprised her with blue wings on all the bridesmaids and white wings for her. We followed our fairy queen around all night with our wings on. She loved it. More pictures to come :)

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10 months

Oof. Time to ghost him! 🤣

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1 year

I got a Super Mario mushroom cotton candy yesterday. Never thought there'd be cotton candy artists!

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2 years

Random opinion: Women should able to say when they have cramps. Not fair that headaches and stomachaches are on the table, but something that happens to us every month isn't. I freely admit it to male colleagues, but I still sometimes get funny looks like it's weird that I do.

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6 months

It's official! I'm done with all my coursework and thesis! My presentation was a big success and I caused one of the staff members to cry from laughing (always a good sign) Now all that's left to do is graduate :)

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9 months

The university finally edited the video of my RFID light up jacket project! As much as I hate myself on camera, this turned out pretty well! Straight to the portfolio site.

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3 years

@sabrinaesaquino Here's a little known secret coming from a software engineer with a decade of work experience and a computer science degree: Literally no one knows what they're doing, and if they say they do, there's a lot they don't know. Tech is like life in that way.

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@MarketPalmer_ I'm 32 and found all of that knowledge to be useful in my life. It's not about the specific knowledge but about learning how to learn. About 1/5 of my friends from high school ended up as chemists or biologists so they would agree as well as they were inspired by those lessons.

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2 years

Asked Midjourney to make me into a mermaid. I'm ok with this interpretation of me.

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5 months

'twas a good day today at Yankee Stadium! 💜 Congrats to the class of 2024!

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1 year

@JoeThrowsDarts @TBBOB2 @fasc1nate Looks like an Asian style omelette

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2 years

So far, I find my 30s feeling as confusing and aimless as my teenage years but with a new dread of my own mortality and a sea of regrets. Those in their mid 30s or older: Does it get any better or does it just keep piling on? I miss my 20s haha😅

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@EssentialMastry Depression and suffering for their misunderstood often pessimistic views

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5 months

@DatRamJamHam @Provokethoughtz I've seen more cases of breaking the bro code than the other way around... But it really just depends on the people. Can't generalize this stuff.

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@BryanShankman @DavidSacks I'm actually kind of surprised at the amenities at TikTok given that it is a Chinese company. Are the offices also like that in China?

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10 months

H-o-l-y shit. Crash and burned the last couple of weeks but my last final is officially done with! Now let's just pass out for a month. I'm starting now 😂

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10 months

Asking the real questions here.

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6 months

New haircut! I'm reserving judgment until I rebleach and redye but it definitely feels weird to not have an undercut. The feathery layers look cute though, I think!

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@BWay124 @InternetH0F No shit our country is practically the size of the EU Don't look at just country. It would make sense to compare California to Germany more then the US to most other countries.

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10 months

Hmmm what's in room 404? 🤔

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9 months

@Samanja09 Loading spinner with "Waiting for client payment..." would be :chef's kiss:

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4 months

"Be careful who you start dating. A lot of people ain't looking for love, they're looking for help"

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1 month

The longer I live on this planet, the more I understand why roosters start their day screaming.

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2 years

Seriously I miss flash websites They more often had personality

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2 years

The Legend of Zelda flash website in 2003 #WebDesignHistory

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2 years

Ok now you know my life story! You must be insane to have reached this point! This was a very professional sounding intro but I usually post in a silly voice. Expect art, random facts, tech stuff, and articles about tech and psychology. Welcome and don't be a stranger :) (7/7)

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1 year

What practical skill do you possess that most people don't know you have or wouldn't normally think of? I'll go first: I'm good at falling.

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1 year

My classmates and I are doing a 100 day challenge where we each commit to developing a daily creative practice over 100 days. I'm going to do 100 days of writing (either code or English) and posting something each day. Wish me luck in hitting 100 days!

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2 years

30 and up Twitter, drop a picture with your age Just made the mark! 31

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Over 30 Twitter, drop a picture and your age. We're four months from 40 😘

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I keep arguing that I'm no longer in the tech industry/ no longer a software engineer ("I'm a creative technologist!"), yet I have 3 IDEs and Unity open right now and am writing in 4 languages. Who am I kidding.

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4 months

Does anyone else get into moods where they listen to the same song on repeat, almost non-stop for days? Just me? Ok then.

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2 years

@codewithvoid I use tabs, not spaces

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5 months

@felixleezd I'm glad I'm not the only one trolling on LinkedIn. This is amazing. They're all so well written. I'm proud of his Roku remote typing accuracy haha

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1 year

Sometimes I look back on old projects and think "Damn, that was a lot of work yet I barely remember doing any of it". Anyone else feel that?

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4 months

I feel like 99% of mental health improvement advice people give only treats symptoms and doesn't address causes.

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3 months

@Theholisticpsyc What exactly is the definition of helicopter parenting? Helicopter parents protect you from the outside world but not from their own emotional manipulation and unreasonable expectations. I've seen that result more in a fear of failure, not entitlement, in my experience

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1 year

Damn. I fell into a cult.

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4 months

Are we more defined by our actions or our thoughts?

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2 years

Working on my cow udder game. Making a physical controller that is a rubber cow udder you squeeze to a Rhythm Heaven Fever inspired rhythm game. Decided to make a countertop mini cow that acts as an espresso machine. Was thinking of having the screen under the udder. (1/2)

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2 years

I'm kind of starting to use Twitter and a place to post projects and process pics. I'm surprised by the number of people who've responded so positively! Would anyone be interested in seeing some past projects as well when I don't have anything tangible to show at the moment?

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3 months

Just applied to a few jobs at Adobe. In retrospect, I should have submitted a cover letter with this picture from when I was an intern for Acrobat with my intern friends and the CEO of Adobe with no other context 🤣

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8 months

Literally half of what I post on this app 🤣

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10 months

@sentinel1909 Preach!

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@dduncandb Agreed. There's a great meme for this actually... All credit to Den Delimarsky. (See his other Seinfeld dev memes here: )

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@Lindsey_design What's something you're really good at? How did you get to be good at it? I'm sure innate ability has something to do with it, but most of us got good at things by good ol fashion practice! No one is born a good programmer. And remember...

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1 year

It's week 3 of the semester and I'm on campus at 1:45am working on making motorized mechanisms out of cardboard. What am I doing with my life? 🤣

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1 year

Did you know that document.getElementsBy... are live updating lists while document.querySelectorAll is not? TIL this after finding duplicates of elements in my DOM because the list was live updating during iteration as I was adding elements. That's all. My PSA of the day.

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4 months

I love how when I post about creative technology and weird art I make, I tend to stay stagnant or even lose followers, but as soon as I complain about tech, post tech memes, or post code samples, I gain followers quickly. Y'all need to get a life outside this bubble, man 🤣

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6 months

Man... I'm always perpetually floating between stage 6 and 10 ☠️

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1 year

"Make an absurd phone add-on" the professor said. So I made a lipstick applicator for clowns on-the-go in the subway/in an Uber/etc. (this is why I was up so late so often the last week 🤡)

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4 months

I've done almost exactly this on a first date once 😂 At least it was a T-Bone steak though so I had a bone I could hold it by. Good times!

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You are out on a first date with this chick and she does this 🤣

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Got a new gig to work on a marketing site. The client's current marketing site is written in Laravel. I haven't written PHP in probably 15 years. Wish me luck!

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6 months

Sometimes I wish I lacked self awareness. People who lack self awareness seem a lot happier in life. I'm tired of being on edge and in a constant freak-out mode 🤣

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8 months

My mood for the week. Drawing on my hand while waiting for deployments and just procrastinating 🤣 Getting pretty good at drawing this little dude from memory... Not sure what that says about my life

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1 year

At the Currents New Media festival in Santa Fe, this kid played my cow game 4 times and his parents had to drag him away I think I found my #1 biggest fan

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2 years

5 years later and this is still my favorite picture of me at the dojo. Still on a quest for a better one with the fun pants, but honestly not sure I'll ever get there 😅

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1 year

One of the scariest things about being a senior+/founding engineer is making decisions like what stack or tools to use. If you don't choose wisely, you drag everyone through hell and the company will be cursing your name out for years to come even after you leave 🤣

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1 year

@shoe0nhead As a woman, I find all of these to be compliments with slight problematic spins. That said, it's all about intention. Coming from well intended people, they're all compliments I'd be happy to hear and give thanks for. The problem isn't the words it's the people who say them

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3 years

@fireship_dev ... patience and how willing you are to spend hours banging your head on a keyboard just to find you missed a semicolon or made a typo.

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1 year

Good advice for anyone in any context :)

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1 year

Dude I hate these branding trends. Twitter was part of that era with cute animal logos. The Twitter bird. The Docker whale. The GitHub Octocat. Then there was the flat mono or dual color brands. You know the ones. Now everything is turning black and slick. The Twitter HQ was

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WATCH: Twitter HQ transforming to X.

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6 months

Uhh oh...I trained a voice on ElevenLabs on my friend's wife's very kawaii voice and finally got python working on my machine. Soon to go on a Pi 4. This is getting crazy 😅

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4 months

I just wrote this absolute nonsense. Even though it works, I think this is sign I should go take a walk lol

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2 years

Due to my recent addiction to Twitter, I've somehow become one of those people that goes to bed and wakes up with their phone in hand even though I've used an alarm clock for years. Going to leave my phone outside of my room for bedtime starting tonight. Wish me luck.

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5 months

I love trying to explain to my non-SF tech-adjacent friends just how entrenched tech is in SF. They think I'm joking when I say bus ads have curl commands on them 🤣

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Professor: "Now let's try to use OpenFrameworks to make our video black and white". Me:

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