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31 May 2019
Jen is slowly becoming America's Old Lady Name. I plan to embrace this by forming a ladies' club with my fellow San Francisco Jens. This club, called Jenanigans, will meet at my house to drink wine, do puzzles, and reflect on how life has changed since the 1900s. Tell your Jens.
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Jennifer Gilbert retweeted
7 Jun 2023
developers who don't run prettier on save
will never know the dopamine reward signal you get when you write valid code and watch it reformat
if it ever doesn't reformat, I start looking for syntax errors
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10 May 2023
I will be grateful to the OG bloggers forever. They were bold and honest and unapologetic in a way that I had never seen before, and gave me the courage to be who I wanted to be, not who others wanted me to be. I hope you have peace now, @dooce. You changed my life.
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Jennifer Gilbert retweeted
26 Apr 2023
the two options for furniture in america are a $85 table made of spit and paper and a $4,485 table made of wood out of a tree that some one kissed every day
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Jennifer Gilbert retweeted
11 Mar 2023
A YouTube star who went viral as a toddler talks about the resentment she feels toward her parents, who told her she had to keep making videos so they could maintain their lifestyle
Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content teenvogue.com/story/influenc…
![Claire, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, has never known a life that doesn’t include a camera being pointed in her direction. The first time she went viral, she was a toddler. When the family’s channel started to rake in the views, Claire says both her parents left their jobs because the revenue from the YouTube channel was enough to support the family and to land them a nicer house and new car. “That’s not fair that I have to support everyone,” she said. “I try not to be resentful but I kind of [am].” Once, she told her dad she didn’t want to do YouTube videos anymore and he told her they would have to move out of their house and her parents would have to go back to work, leaving no money for “nice things.”
When the family is together, the YouTube channel is what they talk about. Claire says her father has told her he may be her father, but he’s also her boss. “It’s a lot of pressure,” she said.](https://venexa.site/media/Fq9DGnfXoAMYvIN.jpg)
ALT Claire, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, has never known a life that doesn’t include a camera being pointed in her direction. The first time she went viral, she was a toddler. When the family’s channel started to rake in the views, Claire says both her parents left their jobs because the revenue from the YouTube channel was enough to support the family and to land them a nicer house and new car. “That’s not fair that I have to support everyone,” she said. “I try not to be resentful but I kind of [am].” Once, she told her dad she didn’t want to do YouTube videos anymore and he told her they would have to move out of their house and her parents would have to go back to work, leaving no money for “nice things.” When the family is together, the YouTube channel is what they talk about. Claire says her father has told her he may be her father, but he’s also her boss. “It’s a lot of pressure,” she said.
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28 Feb 2023
I scuffed a woman's car with my car. I apologized and told her to send me an estimate for repairs. We spent the next two weeks exchanging friendly texts until she excitedly updated me that she had managed to crowd-source and get it fixed for $28. Can we all be like this?
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11 Feb 2023
I used to think I'd be a great dog parent who raised a reasonable animal. Now, when I need to make a phone call, I have to pretend it's a work meeting, because my dog hates phone calls. Also I have to look at the screen even though nothing is there, otherwise he knows I'm faking.
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11 Feb 2023
(Today I was trying to order tile, but realized I forgot to bring my wallet to my desk. So I got up and retrieved it, which blew my cover. He was like "What do you need a WALLET for if it's a work meeting?" and started barking.)
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27 Jan 2023
AI coding partners are just googling it but with fewer steps, and I'm here for it. I wrote a VS Code extension last weekend, something I had no mental model for. The examples didn't involve the functionality I needed, but Copilot just kept pulling me forward until I understood.
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27 Jan 2023
I also notice I'm spending much more of my time thinking about feature design, architecture, etc. It's great to spend less time typing stuff and more time inventing stuff.
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Jennifer Gilbert retweeted
25 Jan 2023
I patiently await the day when she shows up at my door. After all this time she's ready for a change. I tell her I don't want to change her—I love her—I just want her to become the best version of herself.
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25 Jan 2023
The CSS course by @JoshWComeau is one of the best investments I've ever made, and it's inspiring me to dig deep in other "known" areas too. Has anyone taken an online deep-dive SQL course that really impressed you?
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Jennifer Gilbert retweeted
22 Jan 2023
I said earlier that the wide availability of cheap clothing has made people lose touch with the cost of making clothes given fair wages. So let's talk about how much a button-up shirt should cost. 🧵
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19 Jan 2023
I think about this all the time. I'm living life on the easiest mode possible, and I still have a million lingering todos, a mildly questionable diet, and the hydration level of a tumbleweed that has just caught fire. How are you people doing this?
18 Jan 2023
People who are married, have kids, have a job AND manage to exercise, I have questions
Let’s start with a simple one
HOW.
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1 Jan 2023
My PSA for 2023 so far: If you are in your nice deep full-of-water bathtub, and you would like to sit up straighter, do not push too hard off the end of the tub with one heel. Your foot can break right through the wall of the tub, which, it bears repeating, is full of water.
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15 Dec 2022
This is my very first zero-gift Christmas (though one side of the family have been zero-gift for years), and it's everything I dreamed it would be. I keep feeling like I should be stressed, and then remembering why I'm not.
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Jennifer Gilbert retweeted
10 Dec 2022
Voting Zod for best JS library of 2022
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Jennifer Gilbert retweeted
24 Nov 2022
Can everyone please stop adding their Mastodon usernames to their Twitter names? It’s really frustrating for screen reader users. Hearing them being read out loud when scrolling down my timeline isn’t fun.
Add it to your bio or make a pinned tweet instead.
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24 Nov 2022
My family decided to just have Snacksgiving this year, and it was the best Thanksgiving we've ever done. Everyone was so relaxed and ready to hang out, with almost no dishes and zero people lost to the dreaded Ongoing Kitchen Struggle. Snacksgiving! You heard it here first.
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18 Nov 2022
This entire thread. Twitter is a critical comms tool for so many reasons, the prospect of losing it is incredibly worrying. I'm really hoping something else emerges to fill that gap.
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Jennifer Gilbert retweeted
18 Nov 2022
🎶In the arms of the angel🎶
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