Mélanie Troxell🍵
@dilu.bsky.social
Front-End dev.
Runner.
Ceramic chemistry fan.
French 🇨🇦. (she / her)
https://www.instagram.com/fizzy_dilu/
Runner.
Ceramic chemistry fan.
French 🇨🇦. (she / her)
https://www.instagram.com/fizzy_dilu/
It may seem like I am stating the obvious, but it bears repeating in this day and age of AI:
if you want to hire senior devs, you need to hire juniors devs.
if you want to hire senior devs, you need to hire juniors devs.
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It may seem like I am stating the obvious, but it bears repeating in this day and age of AI:
if you want to hire senior devs, you need to hire juniors devs.
if you want to hire senior devs, you need to hire juniors devs.
A pot of Lapsang Souchong on a frigid grey day hits just perfect. Every. Time.
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A pot of Lapsang Souchong on a frigid grey day hits just perfect. Every. Time.
My everlasting pet peeves: people using terms without defining them in tutorials/ documentation. You can't start digging into a complex subject, throw in things to digest, along with not knowing what you aree talking about. Too many tech tutorials do this. Tsk tsk tsk.
October 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
My everlasting pet peeves: people using terms without defining them in tutorials/ documentation. You can't start digging into a complex subject, throw in things to digest, along with not knowing what you aree talking about. Too many tech tutorials do this. Tsk tsk tsk.
What can I say, Shrek tastes real good.
September 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
What can I say, Shrek tastes real good.
Yesterday, while at my favorite café, the girl next to me had the juiciest notebook. I forced myself x times to stop staring at her creepily. She had a holy grail of notebooks. My kryptonite. I nearly asked the brand, but didn't for then I would be owning many more notebooks of (now 3) fav brands.
September 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Yesterday, while at my favorite café, the girl next to me had the juiciest notebook. I forced myself x times to stop staring at her creepily. She had a holy grail of notebooks. My kryptonite. I nearly asked the brand, but didn't for then I would be owning many more notebooks of (now 3) fav brands.
A terrific matcha latte, in and out 🍵❤️
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A terrific matcha latte, in and out 🍵❤️
It's been a really long time that I think that Canada needs to have its own strong tech hub (I won't be using the term to designate an area in Northern California because nobody needs to feel like the Great Value version of something). With the current political landscape, it's due more than ever.
September 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It's been a really long time that I think that Canada needs to have its own strong tech hub (I won't be using the term to designate an area in Northern California because nobody needs to feel like the Great Value version of something). With the current political landscape, it's due more than ever.
“If Canada cannot govern the code that governs Canadians, then we are no longer a sovereign democracy. We will be tenants in Trump’s regime.”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Margaret Atwood and others have called on Canada to protect its sovereignty. But is Mark Carney’s minister listening?
Canada must protect its digital borders.
www.thestar.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“If Canada cannot govern the code that governs Canadians, then we are no longer a sovereign democracy. We will be tenants in Trump’s regime.”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
It is a dedusting my LaTeX skills kind of a night. Oh the memories!
September 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It is a dedusting my LaTeX skills kind of a night. Oh the memories!
Added: refining scary numbers! This animation of numbers swaying while idling, scaling up upon cursor proximity, locking scaled up status when clicked on, new ones gently appearing upon refining forced me to take a careful, paranoid(?) look at ev. render so we don't disrupt this ecosystem of numbers
September 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Added: refining scary numbers! This animation of numbers swaying while idling, scaling up upon cursor proximity, locking scaled up status when clicked on, new ones gently appearing upon refining forced me to take a careful, paranoid(?) look at ev. render so we don't disrupt this ecosystem of numbers
In a sea of badly written to not so well written technical articles, one person really stood out for me. So well explained concepts, generous in the writing and pleasing visually. Then, I found out the writer is from Montréal. So very cool.
September 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
In a sea of badly written to not so well written technical articles, one person really stood out for me. So well explained concepts, generous in the writing and pleasing visually. Then, I found out the writer is from Montréal. So very cool.
Site: "It's free to download!"
Me: Yay! *clicks*
Site: *asks for credit card info and billing address*
Me: NO.
Me: Yay! *clicks*
Site: *asks for credit card info and billing address*
Me: NO.
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Site: "It's free to download!"
Me: Yay! *clicks*
Site: *asks for credit card info and billing address*
Me: NO.
Me: Yay! *clicks*
Site: *asks for credit card info and billing address*
Me: NO.
Every time AI (this time, it was Gemini) suggests to put the mouse position in state, my brain violently rejects it. Who wants to re-render the screen every time the user moves the mouse?? What the hell!???? #react
August 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Every time AI (this time, it was Gemini) suggests to put the mouse position in state, my brain violently rejects it. Who wants to re-render the screen every time the user moves the mouse?? What the hell!???? #react
What's something you learned about yourself after you finished school?
Personally, I discovered that I need and love learning. Having been in school practically all my life when I finished, I never felt that way. Once done though, this trait was allowed to exist and breath. I did not expect that.
Personally, I discovered that I need and love learning. Having been in school practically all my life when I finished, I never felt that way. Once done though, this trait was allowed to exist and breath. I did not expect that.
August 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What's something you learned about yourself after you finished school?
Personally, I discovered that I need and love learning. Having been in school practically all my life when I finished, I never felt that way. Once done though, this trait was allowed to exist and breath. I did not expect that.
Personally, I discovered that I need and love learning. Having been in school practically all my life when I finished, I never felt that way. Once done though, this trait was allowed to exist and breath. I did not expect that.
Current status: bull whipping code. You know, "the devil is in the detail" can mean in the tiny, minute, pesky glitchy bugs. Whip!!! Whip!!!
a cartoon of a cowboy holding a lasso with the words get back to work written below him
ALT: a cartoon of a cowboy holding a lasso with the words get back to work written below him
media.tenor.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Current status: bull whipping code. You know, "the devil is in the detail" can mean in the tiny, minute, pesky glitchy bugs. Whip!!! Whip!!!
Something about this makes me think about @apenwarr.ca . 🤔
August 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Something about this makes me think about @apenwarr.ca . 🤔
Installing a new fresh, fast(er) appropriate distro after a bout with a clunky, inefficient, ill-fitted one is a bit like putting on fresh underwear after a real sweaty, swampy day. With a shower in-between, of course. Did I just say that?
August 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Installing a new fresh, fast(er) appropriate distro after a bout with a clunky, inefficient, ill-fitted one is a bit like putting on fresh underwear after a real sweaty, swampy day. With a shower in-between, of course. Did I just say that?
The joy that comes with finding the exact (hard to find) keyboard layout (that comes under many names) after installing a new distro is indescribable.
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The joy that comes with finding the exact (hard to find) keyboard layout (that comes under many names) after installing a new distro is indescribable.
New: scary numbers! When the only cue from the show is: "each category of numbers presents in such an order as to elicit an emotional response in the refiner", I saw creative freedom. In short, a decay function determines the bad data that I animated slightly differently to "elicit an emotion". 😃
August 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New: scary numbers! When the only cue from the show is: "each category of numbers presents in such an order as to elicit an emotional response in the refiner", I saw creative freedom. In short, a decay function determines the bad data that I animated slightly differently to "elicit an emotion". 😃
Fjällräven is a Swedish brand that sells... a Canada shirt? I did not expect that one! 🇸🇪 🇨🇦
August 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Fjällräven is a Swedish brand that sells... a Canada shirt? I did not expect that one! 🇸🇪 🇨🇦
Some call the very generous amount of screws holding this keyboard annoying. I would call this process meditative. 😁
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Some call the very generous amount of screws holding this keyboard annoying. I would call this process meditative. 😁