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Ashley Willis-McNamara
@ashley.dev
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👩‍💻 Sr Dir of DevRel at @GitHub.
🔥 Grandmother of the first-ever hellthread.
🖨️ Will probably convince you to buy a 3D printer.
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ashley.dev
4 p.m. and it’s dark as hell. Every year I’m shocked like it’s my first winter here. How do people in the PNW just… live like this? I need to get out of here. 😅
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
ashley.dev
Nailed it 👏👏👏
A young girl dressed as Wednesday Addams stands in front of a modern brown door decorated with paper bats. She wears a black lace dress with a white collar and cuffs, her dark hair in two braids. On her shoulder rests Thing, the severed hand from The Addams Family. Beside her are pumpkins and hay bales, completing the cozy Halloween scene.
November 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara
wesbos.com
I hacked my conference badge and wrote an app to control the addressable LEDs from @ashley.dev's Github Light

Quick 4:04 video → www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jPm...
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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pfrazee.com
I'm having a great time at GitHub Universe! @ashley.dev was so nice to invite me. I also accidentally tripped over a power cable that had "Azure" written on it, hope that's not a problem
October 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
ashley.dev
Parenting update: my five-year-old’s art era is focused on ‘people waiting for the bathroom.’ The realism is stunning.
A child’s drawing made with colored pencils showing a line of stick figures waiting to use the restroom. The scene includes several people in a row, each with simple faces and stick limbs. On the left, one figure colored in blue appears to be entering or using a door. Above them, a pink string of lights hangs across the page. The drawing is done on white paper and held up by an adult’s hand with painted nails
October 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
ashley.dev
Last week my cleaners threw out a whole bottle of pills. This week, they arranged my leftover bacon in a wooden bowl.
Three cooked strips of bacon laid on a paper towel inside a wooden serving bowl on a white kitchen counter.
October 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ashley.dev
How your meeting finds me
Ashley Willis sits in front of a gallery wall of framed art prints, wearing a black baseball cap and striped sweater. She covers her face with both hands in apparent exasperation during a Zoom meeting. The video thumbnail shows a timestamp of 2 minutes and 34 seconds
October 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
ashley.dev
My 5-year-old is obsessed with The Simpsons right now, and I love that 3D printing lets me make things like this for her. Everything in this scene, the couch, TV, walls, came off my printer. The only non-printed parts are the figurines.
A colorful miniature diorama of The Simpsons living room scene. The display shows plastic figurines of the Simpson family: Bart and Lisa sitting on the orange couch, Maggie standing on the floor nearby, and Homer and Marge standing behind a small purple TV set. Marge’s tall blue hair stands out, and Homer is smiling next to her. Santa’s Little Helper, the family dog, is stretching on the rug in front of the couch, while the cat, Snowball II, stands by the TV. The background includes a pink wall with a framed picture, a lamp, and the classic logo “The Simpsons” above the scene. The setup rests on a bright green base placed on a wooden table.
September 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara
stabby.bsky.social
I'll be honest, a rapture this close to q4 kickoff is a huge failure from leadership.
September 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
ashley.dev
The rapture is supposed to happen tomorrow? My schedule is kinda packed, but I have time at 3pm.
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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edeggans.bsky.social
Take that Paramount! Stephen Colbert wins best variety talk series at #Emmys weeks after CBS canceled show. "Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it...my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately."
September 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
ashley.dev
Oh, it’s only Tuesday. Cool, cool, cool.
September 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
ashley.dev
I’m in Amsterdam right now and I’m extra infuriated by this behavior 😅
ashley.dev Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · Apr 5
People who walk side by side on busy, narrow walkways, explain yourselves. Why? Form a single-file line. You’re clogging up the whole system. It makes me sooooo mad, bro!
August 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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bizza.pizza
My blog's comments are Bluesky replies, because I saw and like it on @ashley.dev's blog. briandouglas.me/posts/2025/0...
Adding Bluesky Comments to My Blog: A Technical Implementation
Learn how I integrated Bluesky's social features into my blog, creating a zero-maintenance comment system using the AT Protocol's open APIs. This technical walkthrough covers the implementation detail...
briandouglas.me
August 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ashley.dev
I hope they’re planning a government takeover
August 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara
lookitup.baby
PSA: go apply the urgent security update to your Apple devices. Don’t wait. Do it right now
Update Now: iOS 18.6.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability
Apple today released new iOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 18.6.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 updates, and the software addresses a security vulnerability that is...
www.macrumors.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
ashley.dev
Why do men at conferences keep telling me their marriage is open? Am I supposed to… do something with that info? Mine’s closed. I’m obsessed with my husband. Not fumbling that, ever.
August 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
ashley.dev
Who's going to be at Open Source Summit EU?
August 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
ashley.dev
I’ve been a little quiet lately... on purpose. Here’s why the quiet season matters ashley.dev/posts/the-qu...
Ashley Willis
I didn’t mean for this to be a quiet season. It wasn’t planned, it wasn’t marked on my calendar, and it certainly wasn’t framed in my mind as a stretch of inten...
ashley.dev
August 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
ashley.dev
The new Donkey Kong Bonanza game is so much fun. 🤩
July 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
ashley.dev
If you have a Nintendo Switch 2 and a 3D printer, boy do I have a project for you. 😍
July 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ashley.dev
Thanks for the help, friends. I put on the first outfit & took a lap around the casino to see if I could survive the night in those boots. I regret to inform you I could not. So I went with outfit #2, and I’m glad I did, because even in that one, my feet were killing me by the end. It was worth it!
A woman stands near the front row at Allegiant Stadium before a Beyoncé concert. She’s wearing a dramatic gray acid-wash dress with a high slit, a wide black belt with large gold medallions, tall black cowboy boots, fishnet tights, and a black wide-brimmed hat. She’s smiling and holding the brim of her hat. Behind her, the stage features a massive American flag made of red, white, and blue tiles. The stadium is filling with people in the background.
July 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ashley.dev
Alright friends, I need a little help. I’m seeing Beyoncé tonight (!!) and I’m so excited. I packed two outfits and honestly can’t decide which one to wear, it’s a real toss-up.
Person posing in front of a bathroom mirror wearing a black fitted top tucked into high-waisted denim jeans, accessorized with a bold Western belt, thigh-high black leather boots with dramatic fringe down the sides, and a wide-brimmed black hat. A turquoise bolo tie Person posing in front of a bathroom mirror wearing a faded black denim dress with a deep V neckline, gold and black statement belt, fishnet tights, black cowboy boots, and a wide-brimmed black hat. A turquoise bolo tie
July 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara
bnb.im
fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
July 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara
lookitup.baby
Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
www.eff.org
July 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM