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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 14h

this sweater is amazing!

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 14h

even a shallow bathtub with the right extenuating circumstances

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 16h

I personally vote for them to go lie down in quick sand, but the sea is probably more accessible.

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 16h

❤️

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 16h

I have an application or a browser tab that is periodically making clicking noises.

This would be irritating.

Until I realized that I was mentally blaming all of the screens viewable on my right monitor first simply because my speaker is also on the right.

Now I'm just laughing at human brains.

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Reposted by Rachel Stephens

Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 22h

All hail Brenda www.tiktok.com/@belligerent...

#ai#excel#accounting#artificialintelligence#brenda

TikTok video by Ada James

www.tiktok.com

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 22h

fwiw United it making everything refundable; my guess is Delta does too? www.united.com/en/us/newsro...

And importantly, any customer traveling during this period is eligible for a refund if they do not wish to fly – even if their flight isn't impacted. That includes non-refundable tickets and those customers with basic economy tickets.

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 1d

My favorite part is the "an."

An AI Companion feature was to blame. Definitely not This AI Companion feature. Just one of them out there somewhere.

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 1d

LMAO. @kateholterhoff.com accidentally turned on Zoom's AI Companion at the start of a call and then immediately turned it off. It still sent us a recap.

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Kate expressed frustration about an AI companion feature that she felt was misleading, and Rachel suggested turning it off.

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 2d

They still do, promise! 🤣

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 2d

It's a launch day at @redmonk.com!

My colleague @monkchips.com, along with his lovely coauthors @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social @wiredferret.bsky.social & @azimman.bsky.social have released their Progressive Delivery book into the world!

Let me tell you about their book!

redmonk.com/rstephens/20...

Progressive Delivery

My colleague James Governor has been talking about Progressive Delivery since helping coin the term in 2018. He joined forces with co-authors Kim Harrison, Heidi Waterhouse, and Adam Zimman to write a...

redmonk.com

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 3d

I try so hard to teach my children about having a good moral compass

And then they go and leave their Halloween candy bags unattended directly outside my office while they're at school

And frankly it's just rude to make me model the behavior back to them

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 3d

I used to take them apart so I could do it all myself.

Lately though my kids come in to "help" during the last 50-ish pieces. Once you've given up rights to putting the last piece in you become less of a purist about such things.

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 6d

Children in costumes is my best life. I love Halloween.

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 6d

This is disappointing news on next year's KubeCon location.

www.linkedin.com/posts/cloud-...

www.linkedin.com

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 7d

What do you get when you mix Akamai's edge network with @fermyon.com's WebAssembly platform? A fun conversation about what’s next for serverless edge computing!

Join Allen Duet (Akamai) and Matt Butcher (Fermyon) as we talk about distributed serverless compute.

redmonk.com/videos/akama...

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 8d

Double-entry accounting is one of the underrated "this changed the world" innovations.

Everyone gets excited about the Italian art renaissance and no one gets excited about the Italian accounting renaissance, and that's a damn shame.

(kind of said in jest... but also kind of not)

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 8d

arguably half of my job is explaining the basics of double entry bookkeeping so i think i should add "ACTUALLY understands debits vs credits" on my resume

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 8d

I have sat at that exact table! :) I feel vicariously part of this experience

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 9d

This is the way

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 9d

I have a folder on my computer called "My Darlings" that just contains snippets of all the writing passages I had to unwillingly delete over the years. Killing your darlings is the worst.

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 9d

I mean I'm not saying it should say. After her @monktoberfest talk I am 100% not signing up to disagree with Ashley anytime soon.

But I am saying *I* personally want to see it. :)

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 9d

Can I read it before it goes away? I love cheesy! Give me all the dad jokes!

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 10d

(don't worry - it's been 4 years and she would have really really enjoyed this joke)

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 10d

Normally I try to call them retros but I think post-mortem is correct in this instance.

message that reads:

but really if we want to place the blame anywhere.... and hear me out... really it's my dead grandma's fault.)

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 10d

today I realized I apparently haven't logged into facebook since sometime before June 26 2023.

I know the date because that's the timestamp of the oldest of many messages I had waiting for me.

It was an invitation to a friend's backyard BBQ.

I RSVP'd my regrets.

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