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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever

@laranewsom.com

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Cisco Technical Lead, Angular GDE, NX Champion, Pluralsight Author, Angular Plus Show Co-Host, a nerd but not that kind of nerd, one husband away from being a full blown cat lady. Trans Right are Human Rights and Black Lives Matter 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿✊🏾she/her

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 13d

This is where art and engineering overlap. Learning to not be precious about your work clears the way for tremendous growth and innovation.

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 13d

It’s always weird to find the actual line the republicans won’t cross. Nazi tattoos? Totally fine, you get to be the secretary of defense. Nazi texts? Not this week buddy.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 14d

YASSSSSS!!! My expression changed from 😢 to 😁

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 14d

There was a Jay Bell shaped hole in our hearts 😭

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 14d

I totally see a smile!

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 14d

Once again it was so great to see my #angular family at Ng-conf! It was had a great time seeing everyone who could make it, and miss everyone who could not!

Selfie of me and ,as my kids call him, the Cheese Icon, Spivey

A selfie of me with two Michaels and Saud

Me speaking at NgConf. You can only see the top of my head peaking over my open laptop

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 14d

Do it. Do the parrot sound!

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 14d

It was great to see you!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14d

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 14d

Mark is good people!

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Sep 3

But isn’t that cannibalism?

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Tamara Keel @tamslick.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Sep 2

Have you seen the movie Mickey 17?

I think about it every time I open a new chat window, because I get a different version of CoPilot every time. Sometimes I get one that follows the instructions we added to the repo, other times I get the chaotic evil version that randomly deletes half of my code

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Angie Jones @angiejones.tech · Aug 28

Using AI to generate code is cool, but how about using it to DELETE CODE?!

Our iOS team is using goose to remove hundreds of thousands of lines of dead code from their monorepo 🤯

block.github.io/goose/blog/2...

When AI Becomes Your New Team Member: The Story of Goose Janitor

How an engineering team is trialling autonomous AI-powered technical debt cleanup

block.github.io

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Sep 2

elmo from sesame street is smiling and saying swoon and faint !

Alt: elmo from sesame street rolls his eyes back and then falls over as if to faint. The caption reads “swoon and faint”

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Aug 31

I’m pretty sure my hell would include having to record audio where I say the words “asterisk” and “ampersand” over and over again

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Aug 30

It sucks to know that pretty much every government agency is now being run by people you wouldn’t hire to watch your goldfish.

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Aug 22

According to my older relatives it’s a literal cloud that does computer stuff

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Aug 22

🫠 oh man.

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Aug 22

I think you’re the right audience for this sticker I snagged at @kcdc.bsky.social

For me I grabbed the cat shaped one.

A green dog shaped silhouette reads “I code so my dog can have a better life”

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Aug 22

I put on my new phone screen protector and it sort of went like this:

Reads “peel this first to avoid touching the adhesive”

Immediately touches the adhesive 🫠

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Aug 17

You’re fancy now.

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Aug 17

One of the little things that bring me joy is that every morning, I crack my office door so my cat can go outside and enjoy the garden. It’s hot so I close my inner door to just a crack to keep the heat out.

When he is done, he koolaid mans his way through the cracked door and it is delightful

The adorable little Koolaid Man. This is Tiddles, he is a small shorthair brown tabby cat. He is laying on the carpet feeling very happy that he got his outside time and his head is upside down. He is looking right at the camera and one of his paws is sort of dangling over his chin because he is so relaxed. I am also laying on the carpet so the camera angle is straight on across the carpet.

Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · Aug 17

It was so great to see you all!

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Lance Finney @lmfinney.bsky.social · Aug 15

A mini reunion of @angular.dev GDEs at #KCDC2025.

@kcdc.bsky.social
@jenniferwadella.com
@laranewsom.com
@wordman.dev
@mhartington.io
@alyssanicoll.bsky.social

Jennifer Wadella, Lara Newsom, Lance Finney, Jan-Niklas Wortmann, and Mike Hartington

Mike Hartington, Lance Finney, Alyssa Nicoll, Lara Newsom, and Brad McAlister

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