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ivy
@ivypuckett.bsky.social
Pronounced: eye-vee
they/she

Instant coffee enjoyer

💻 Ex-faang Software Engineer
- https://github.com/ivypuckett
- https://github.com/winstonpuckett
📖 Technical Writer https://dev.to/ivypuckett
🎵 Musician https://songwhip.com/neoplumes
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans
Job is hard cause reason
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I've been really excited about {insert technical thing here} lately.
December 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Reposted by ivy
we tend to downplay it a lot but yes it is in fact actually incredibly distressing to always feel as dissociated as we do
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is the most interesting take I've heard on harmony since I left college. youtu.be/a8XoR0KY3e0?...
How Simple Chord Progressions Work
YouTube video by 8-bit Music Theory
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Reposted by ivy
"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more."

Los Campesinos:
Here’s how much money Los Camp! make from streaming… - Los Campesinos!
loscampesinos.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Why is everyone hating on Jacob Collier all of a sudden? There are so many more productive outlets of energy
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just wiped my last Windows PC. I now exclusively own Linux machines 🎉
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
SuperTuxKart is surprisingly solid
December 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
What is the best ice breaker question? Wrong answers only
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I just discovered Toki Pona and I think I'm in love 🥰
tokipona.org
Toki Pona (official site)
tokipona.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Ok but like this is just a shader??? What???
www.shadertoy.com/view/tXjXDy
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Shadertoy might be my new favorite website
Credit: www.shadertoy.com/view/tXBBzz
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I love that you exist.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Wait, theres a drop option when rebasing?? How did I miss that??
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Mandelbrots are so beautiful
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Was scrolling dribble and found someone use a CSS gradient where one of the colors was just desaturated. I've never noticed this before and I love it!

I'm a backend dev btw, feel free to tell me this is a super common thing 🤣
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Which animals talk in children's cartoons seems entirely arbitrary
October 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Any db which requires you to wake up in the middle of the night to upgrade needs to be replaced with a db that doesn't.
October 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I bet our conception of time is a lot like what previous generations thought about land. We assumed it'd just "stop" at some point until we found out we lived on a sphere
October 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I think I'm ready to get hurt again
I miss rust enums
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I miss rust enums
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Properly wrapping your dependencies is like giving your future self superpowers
October 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Whoever named the Squarp Hapax has incredible taste. And yes, that is a real thing. And yes, I really want one
October 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The notion of a controlplane and dataplane has really shaped how I think about architecture. It's incredibly useful, even just to know the appropriate CAP theorem tradeoff when designing your system

docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitec...
Control plane and data plane - Reducing the Scope of Impact with Cell-Based Architecture
AWS separates most services into the concepts of control plane and data plane. These terms come from the world of networking, specifically routers. The router's data plane, which is its main function,...
docs.aws.amazon.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The 12 factor app had some really good, still-relevant ideas for how to architect software well 12factor.net
The Twelve-Factor App
A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.
12factor.net
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM