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Ellen Shapiro
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I never shut up about iOS and Android development. She/Her. Rochester, NY, USA and/or wherever I've convinced someone to let me come talk to people.

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Every time there’s a giant solar storm that triggers aurorae way further south than usual, this is the cloud cover map here 🤦‍♀️
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
@mergesort I love how your chaos sprite and mine are spiritual cousins
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Tonight’s weather in Rochester is “The Frosted Mini-Wheats Factory Exploded”
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Ok I am glad Apple is acknowledging there is, in fact, an issue with TestFlight. It would be great after a day and a half to know what that issue *is* and when it may or may not be resolved.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
LOL OMFG he looked through his pics and did the ENHANCE thing and…
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We just discovered that one of my coworkers sat like 40 feet from me during Rochester's sad, sad eclipse fail last April.

The crazy part: This was ten months before I met him.

And I showed him a video I took of the crowd in the area and he was like...yep, that's me.
October 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say whoever designed this icon has never seen a sanitary napkin in their life
October 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Chillier weather has arrived and with that the chance to confirm what I thought: The T-shirt quilt I had made with all my conference tshirts up to the end of 2024 is big enough to fit a queen bed:
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I rode past this middle train station for almost two years and I still can’t read it as anything other than “Murder Port Station”
October 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New addition to my collection of baseball caps for European ⚽️ teams I’ve bought after losing the only hat I bought with me.
October 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Oh no: The oliebollen/krentebollen stands are out. I think I can kiss my goal of eating less fried shit the rest of my trip goodbye.
October 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I’m surprised this car needs to charge and doesn’t just power itself by being pulled back half a block and letting go
October 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Close ups of the rose windows #paris #notredame #notredamedeparis
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It’s been quite a while and a massive fire since I last went to Notre Dame, and the work they did on the cleanup is jaw-dropping.

Just a festival of color even bigger than before from the stained glass, and the stone is SO BRIGHT I literally mumbled “oh holy […]

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October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Apparently these folks know Tim Apple’s next gig
October 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
@mergesort I mean I highly recommend the multi void life
October 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I forced @joshdholtz to stand in a long line for a funicular because I didn’t want to walk 200+ stairs up to Sacre Cœur and this is the thanks he gets
October 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Well that certainly explains the turbulence on the way into CDG
October 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Me: Goddamn it how do I keep losing my glasses in this one floor house where I work from home?

Hank: No idea what you’re talking about.
September 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Reason #37815 to use a formatter instead of trying to hard-code things: Sometimes countries change their currency.
September 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I present a short film called Maid of the Mist: A Fuck of a Lot of Water and Some Very Wet Tourists
September 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Video, because apparently I can’t mix pics and video in the fediverse
September 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Highly recommend the Niagara Power Station’s tunnel out to a viewpoint by the horseshoe falls if you make it to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Just a spectacular view.

(Bring rain gear, even with a poncho I got drenched)
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Can confirm the iPhone 17 selfie camera is much more detailed
September 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
#uspol Theeere it is: The ABC affiliate chain that started this whole Kimmel thing is up for FCC approval for a huge merger, so the FCC chairman ranting about revoking licenses over this meant they knew where their money had to stand. via [ […]

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September 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM