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@shantinix

Shantini

3 months

This year I led the engineering effort to build recording, transcription and summarization in Notes, and worked with the Phone/FaceTime teams to extend that to calls. It's been a labor of love for me and the many others involved. Can't wait to see what people do with these tools!

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@shantinix

Shantini

3 years

Remote work is a disability concern. It’s a women’s concern. It’s a people-who-want-better-mental-health concern. If you want to go back to the office, nobody is stopping you. But you should not step on the rest of us.

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Shantini

2 years

Having a nightly standup is bad enough, but imagine holding one while everyone around you is being unceremoniously fired

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3 years

Okay but how do I get out of this UI

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Shantini

2 years

*spicy takes* - software engineering interviews mostly rely on memorization, luck, and confidence - being good at interviews does not make you intelligent or a good programmer - being bad at interviews does not make you unintelligent or a bad programmer

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Shantini

3 years

Imagine at this point, adding another 1-4 hours to your day just to COMMUTE??

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Shantini

3 years

My mom bought some gluten free Indian bread. I asked her how much flour was in it. Turns out, it was NaN.

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Shantini

2 years

✨Personal news 2 of 2✨ This will probably surprise exactly 0 people, but in one of the fastest boomerangs ever, I’ll be re-joining Apple next week. I will be on the team that works on this tiny little app you may have heard of.

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Shantini

3 years

And not to have to justify this further, but I’m pretty sure we’ve been more productive in the last year than anyone complaining that we’re lazy

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Shantini

3 years

📣Phew okay I can finally share some news I’ve been keeping quiet for a while. I’m so, so excited to share that I’ve accepted an iOS role at Twitter starting in September 😊

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Shantini

3 years

Don’t worship companies, folks. The happiest tech people I know are the ones that realize that tech companies are taking advantage of you, and you have to do everything you can to reclaim as much value as possible.

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Shantini

2 years

3 years at !!!

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Shantini

2 years

All the people that enabled this along the way…we remember you and we’ll never want to work with you again.

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Shantini

3 years

Listen don’t clone your pets, we have so many pets that need homes and just die uselessly

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Input

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Critics have frequently raised concerns about the ethics of cloning pets, as it involves putting surrogate animals through the difficult IVF process. Some argue that it seems decadent, given that there are 6,300,000 animals entering U.S. shelters yearly.

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Shantini

3 years

Today’s my last day at . I’m sad. I’m scared. I’ve learned so much. Met so many outrageously smart and cool people. Worked at my dream company. I will probably take some time to grieve. But I will be approaching my next adventure with an open heart and mind.

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Shantini

2 years

Consistently my favorite Twitter account 🥹❤️

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I’ve Pet That Dog

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I pet Susan. She is a 3 year old Blue Heeler, Beagle mix who was adopted from Paws Humane in Iowa. She lives with Greg, a Chihuahua mix. Susan is reactive and afraid of other dogs, but she loves Greg. She keeps Greg company, and Greg teaches her all about the good life.

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1. Yes this was predictable 2. It is still upsetting because 3. The damage is done, so many talented people left or were re-orged and nobody trusts management anymore 4. All for what

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Shantini

3 years

Have you ever had your heart broken into a million tiny little pieces

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2 years

Using an iPhone with a Dynamic Island is great because I get to see which apps hard-coded the heights of their views 😝

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Shantini

2 years

This is not leadership, this is normalizing toxic workplace practices

@esthercrawford

Esther Crawford ✨

@esthercrawford

2 years

When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork

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Shantini

3 years

What NOT to do as an iOS developer: reply to Apple hiring manager tweets and harass them about not having remote options. The hiring managers have no say in the policy. Stop being a jerk. Everyone sees you.

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Shantini

3 years

People seem to forget that it’s real people working on software.

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Shantini

2 years

new bio dropped 🥲

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Shantini

3 years

Also, people need to stop leaking Apple shit.

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Shantini

3 years

Sometimes I forget that my entire career exists because of this line of machinery

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Today in Tech History

@DayTechHistory

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On this day in 1984, the original Macintosh was unveiled.

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2 years

Objective-C is basically a bunch of little objects screaming into the void and hoping other objects will hear them. Just like its users.

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Shantini

3 years

wrote a simple DateFormatter in Swift and it told me the date is March 74, 2022 so I think I'm gonna go ahead and quit software development now

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Shantini

2 years

People completely lose me when they use “foo” and “bar” in code examples. I can’t parse them and my brain gets stuck. Is this a thing from another age? I don’t get it.

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Shantini

4 years

why can't I build a website in SwiftUI

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Shantini

2 years

Gen Zs hate Objective-C because getting ghosted after sending a message is too real for them

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Shantini

2 years

Who called it sudo and not “I Am Root”

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Shantini

3 years

Okay at the risk of *gestures wildly at Twitter* Apple is a big company. It’s got some problems. But it’s a great place to work for a lot of people. A certain employee has made it their mission to bring down Apple through whatever means necessary. Including straight LIES.

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Shantini

2 years

💜💃👩‍💻💥 @NovallSwift

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Shantini

2 years

Xcode > Settings > Behaviors > Succeeds/Fails > Play Sound [this has improved my workday so much]

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Shantini

4 years

OHHHH BOY. Working at Apple is so exciting.

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Shantini

3 years

When you start working at Apple, they give you a little card with a paragraph about how you’re going to do your “life’s work” there. I don’t like that. What if I’m going to do my life’s work at multiple places? What if Apple was just preparing me to do my life’s work?

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Shantini

3 years

software engineers shouldn’t date their coworkers because at some point they may have to see their XCode

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Shantini

2 years

AHHHHHH @NovallSwift KILLING IT IN THE PLATFORMS SOTU!!!!!! 💜💜💜

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Shantini

3 years

@rampacuatro Didn’t do that. I didn’t say that people can’t go into the office if they want to

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Shantini

4 months

It’s been two years since I rejoined Apple and first joined the Notes team, and my life has changed in so many good ways since then. I'm so grateful for where I am 🥹

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Shantini

2 years

My favorite iOS feature ever

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Shantini

3 years

Books from 40 years ago should not influence how you run a software team. That was before they had large, cross-platform initiatives. It was also before they had, you know, women.

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Shantini

3 years

This is absolutely gonna shock some of you: You don’t have to be an Apple fanboy to be an iOS developer. 😱😱😱

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Shantini

3 years

I see so many people on here that are obsessed with Apple. Hard truth: You can love it, but it’s not going to love you back. Apple exists to make money. Any cool things that come out of it are a result of great people working hard. Stan them. Not the company.

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Shantini

3 years

I love Apple's SwiftUI Tutorials. They're so calming and reassuring - like, yes, you can do this.

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Shantini

2 years

Til next time 💙💜❤️🧡💛💚

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Shantini

2 years

Alright since everyone’s doing it, my first (and last) in-person WWDC was in 2019! This day was the first time that it clicked for me that I really am an engineer.

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Shantini

3 years

Having to explain to my spouse the acceptable hobbies for an iOS developer: - pizza making - collecting vintage Apple computers - cappuccino making What am I missing

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Shantini

3 years

I reject all the discourse complaining about turning 30. I spent all of my 20s with poor mental health and unhappy with my appearance and achievements. I’m spending my 30s happy and content and frankly looking better than I ever have. 😘

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Shantini

3 years

Summary of my onboarding experiences thus far: Now-folded startup: here’s a laptop, fix stuff Apple: here’s a laptop, spend the next two weeks figuring out how to set it up Twitter: here’s a laptop, DO NOT OPEN IT we have a step-by-step class on how to set it up

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Shantini

2 years

✨Personal news 1 of 2✨ This will be my last week working at Twitter. I have so much I want to say, but I haven’t yet found the right way to do it. Suffice it to say it’s very bittersweet for me and I will miss the company and my coworkers so very much.

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2 years

This year has given me my dream job and a purple iPhone. Thanks,  🥲

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2 years

I gripe a lot about Objective-C but now that I’ve had the opportunity to work with it a lot more I’m absolutely going to double down on the griping because shit is weird as heck

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3 years

In my free time, I decorate our home to look like an Apple store 😂

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3 years

Here are my favorite Apple pics and yes that affogato was amazing

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3 years

I need to cool it with the Apple products. I’m at the point where I’m using Apple products as stands for my other Apple products.

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3 years

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2 years

I saw that @jramseyi was doing pet commissions and of course I had to request one of Merlin. What a fantastic job!! 🥰

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2 years

Finally got my pic in front of IL 🥹

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3 years

Muting this, thanks for all the answers? It was more of a “please look at how confusing this is” post than a “please help me” post

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2 years

💜💜💜

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Shantini

3 years

If you have kids, please please make sure they’re not afraid of you. It’s so permanently damaging to the mind and spirit to be afraid of the ones you should trust the most. This is much bigger than any “values” you might be trying to instill.

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3 years

This arrived today 😍💜

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3 years

First day @Twitter let’s goooo!!!

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Shantini

2 years

And yes, it is the same person

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Shantini

2 years

This is not leadership, this is normalizing toxic workplace practices

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2 years

normalize telling friends you love them

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2 years

Happy National Rescue Dog Day from Merlin and Pokey! They’re both the goodest boys, rescued at 11 weeks and 8 weeks, respectively. cc: @darth

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2 years

Earlier this year I was incredibly anxious, wondering whether I was cut out to be an iOS engineer, whether I would be laid off from Twitter, questioning where I was going. Then four months ago today, I got some very good news and it’s been life-changing 😊  📝

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Shantini

3 years

Yeah okay if you follow this person, we can’t be friends. Shit like this is why it’s hard for women to find safe spaces in tech.

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2 years

You’re all wrong, it’s pronounced “reg-ten”

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Shantini

2 years

@Swizec Honestly it’s a much bigger red flag if someone like you is supposedly “senior” and posts on the internet about one of their candidates. This is so unprofessional and unethical. Why would anyone want to interview for you knowing their insecurities are going to be mocked publicly?

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Shantini

3 years

This here app that you’re on

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Anyone else still maintaining projects in Objective C?

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2 years

Last day working at this bird app. I’m really gonna miss people.

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Shantini

3 years

2 years at !!! I’m so grateful for my experiences so far and looking forward to what’s to come. As always thanks to @pixel for plucking me out of nowhere 😊

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2 years

I used to love every #AppleEvent because it brought new exciting technologies. I now love them because I get to celebrate the hard work of my colleagues. 💜

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2 years

Good morning!

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2 years

One of the best parts of my evening was when @ChristianSelig said to me “so, Notes team, eh?” 🇨🇦

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Shantini

2 years

As a person who writes software, I would simply never tag engineers I know at a large company when I find a bug, especially if they don’t work on the relevant feature

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3 years

It’s my birthday week 🙈

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3 years

16 year old me would be so proud that I just commuted to my job in the city 🥲💙

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2 years

I’m so excited to apply Swift concurrency to my bedding so I can finally have await-ed blanket

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4 years

The SwiftUI team really is something else.

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Shantini

2 years

If you think there’s no misogyny in tech, read the replies. I’ve often been the only woman in the room and it can really suck. Some groups, like my current team, are doing a lot to create a welcoming environment for women. Many are not.

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Shantini

2 years

Apple Notes in shambles

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2 years

turn it off and back on again

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Shantini

3 years

You can only call them an oligarch if they come from Russia. Anywhere else and it’s just sparkling wage theft

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they/them might be giants ☭

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Why are US billionaires not called “oligarchs” when they’re richer than Russia’s and have even more political power?

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3 years

Oh

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2 years

Ah yes,,,, cuties @rmondello

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Best pin @ChristianSelig

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3 years

Can y’all stop making “Things Junior iOS Devz Should Know” lists because none of us know any of those things, we are literally all just copy/pasting and crossing our fingers and sometimes crying

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3 years

@ChristianSelig

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3 years

I see so many people posting cool SwiftUI animations and I’m like looking for how to change a background color

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3 years

gonna try to learn objective-c tomorrow, wish me luck

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3 years

@joeyabanks @YS @webflow The gatekeeping. Also experienced people will know to ignore this while people who are just getting started might not.

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Shantini

3 years

cw: mental health issues It’s been about five years since I was hospitalized for depression, got Pokey to help with said depression, learned Swift, wrote my first apps, won my first hackathons, and started believing in myself. Glad to be here

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Shantini

3 years

I’m going to need strangers to stop asking why I left Apple. If I follow you, feel free to message me and ask. If not, maybe like mind your own business?

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Shantini

2 years

Oh hey, six months at Twitter! (Couple weeks ago but it’s been bananas and I missed it)

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2 years

a feature I coded up will be hitting some of your screens later today 👀

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3 years

Merry Christmas from the edge of the world 🌊

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