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Sarah Rainsberger
@sarah11918
Creates & Solves problems. Sometimes in that order! (she/her) 👩‍💻 🚀 Docs Lead ✍️ 📷🐦Bird Pics 🎼Choir ⚾️BlueJays ❤️ #NWTWWHB
Summerside PEI Canada/Epekwitkrainsberger.caJoined May 2008

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Awww, yeah! Nothing beats seeing the status of your rare bird sighting updated to "Valid: true" ... in your own app you built! 👩‍💻🐦
Screenshot of coding environment, showing the web preview of the app output, with my particular warbler sighting highlighted.
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The TTC pre-pandemic served 3.2 million riders every weekday in a city of 2.9 million. This city doesn't belong to drivers, it's just historically been run by and for drivers, and they've gotten a bit comfortable thinking that makes them the "normal citizens".
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"Little in common with normal citizens". Good to know that the 43% of people in the greater Toronto metropolitan area (including me!) who use a method of transportation other than driving aren't "normal". Would be fascinated to know what other demographics make someone "normal".
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You have elected an outlier then who has little in common with normal citizens. We did the same, it was a nightmare because outliers assume the majority (eg drivers) is the enemy and end up antagonizing everyone except their little in-group of fanatics.
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Under-the-radar bit about last night: Toronto just elected a mayor without a driver's license. In a city that's had its past decade shaped by driver culture, that elected Rob Ford based off his moaning about the "war on cars", this is a truly seismic shift.
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🎵 Key caps on keyboards and stickers on laptops. . . . . . Show us a few of your favorite things! 🎵 Reply with a pic of your Official Astro Swag, and we'll show off the best ones today in our weekly Community Call. Join us on Discord 2pm ET for a recap of the week in Astro!
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“A lot of men are happy to support and mentor a woman who is in a junior, less-powerful position. Yet, …. willingness to support and advocate generally diminishes for women as they achieve parity or seniority…”
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This is the kind of simulation I've thought about making in a hundred situations! Really glad to see it here. People's naive intuitions about how these "small" biases play out at scale are usually massive underestimates (& as noted this hypothetical is itself an underestimate)
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Watch the live simulation in the article, illustrating how a 3% undervaluation affects the promotions of women
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Introducing a feature: render bloks as components effortlessly! 🚀 Experience seamless integration and unlock limitless creativity with just one line of code. 💫 🎉 Unleash the power of Storyblok and Astro! Check out the live demo:
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When you direct a question/comment to an established community member, you often rob others of the opportunity to engage... and level up! (Do *you* feel comfortable jumping in and answering when a Q has been asked directly to Big Peep X?) Plus, takes longer to get an answer?? 😅
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When you post a question on an OSS community Discord, do it without mentioning folks or roles (should be disabled for roles), or sending DMs. Let whoever has the time and energy to get involved. Help forums scale if questions are directed to the community, and if everyone helps.
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When you post a question on an OSS community Discord, do it without mentioning folks or roles (should be disabled for roles), or sending DMs. Let whoever has the time and energy to get involved. Help forums scale if questions are directed to the community, and if everyone helps.
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The leader of the Conservative Party: "the CBC doesn't provide anything that people can't get from the marketplace" Canada's largest private TV broadcaster (net worth $41-billion): "hey is it cool if we stop doing The News"
CBC SCREENSHOT: In another sit-down interview last July with True North, Poilievre explained that the only justification for having a public broadcaster is to provide content the private market does not. He argued that is not the case for CBC's English services.

"Almost everything the CBC does can be done in the marketplace these days because of technology," he told host Andrew Lawton. "I would preserve a small amount for French-language minorities, linguistic minorities, because they, frankly, will not get news services provided by the market."

He added he did not think the CBC's English-language services on TV or online "provide anything that people can't get from the marketplace."
@ahbseaborn Bell Media is asking the CRTC to eliminate all local news requirements for CTV

“Bell Media has been losing tens of millions alone in the production and delivery of local news.  In the four-year period between 2016 and 2019, the average annual news operating loss was $28.4M"
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There's not enough developer advocates actually developing. A DA isn't supposed to just be writing blog posts. They're supposed to be using their "thingy" to build stuff... like the developers they need to advocate for.
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if you are in devrel or you have a non software engineer role, how do you keep your dev skills sharp? i wrote about this years ago but i would love to hear what tips or insights others might have
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As long as it's #NWTWWHB (not worse than what we had before)... ship it! 🚢
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"People often speak dismissively of pull requests that fix a typo or a broken link." @sarah11918 challenges this view and chats with @klintron about the underappreciated impact of non-code contributions. github.blog/2023-06-21-bri
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Just tried Repo Recording for ! In minutes, had a video walkthrough of Starlight's #i18n structure! 🌟🌐 Know a language that isn't included in starlight.astro.build out-of-the-box yet? See how you can contribute it! scrimba.com/scrim/cpb44bt3
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We just launched a free tool for CS teachers and open source developers 🚀 It lets you easily record voice-overs on top of any OS repository on GitHub/GitLab 🎬 Perfect for i.e. onboarding new people onto a repository or giving in-depth feedback to students on their code. twitter.com/perborgen/stat…
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