Andreea

@diemkay

developer and ex-PM in Amsterdam, recovering from SF. ♥️ tech, people, learning and fixing stuff. tweets and RTs don’t mean anything.

Amsterdam, NL
Joined May 2007

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  1. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    A worrying story about climate change with gorgeous interactive illustration that helps readers understand the issue. The fact that this is achievable in the browser is important to me. It reaches the widest possible audience.

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  2. Mar 3

    Now son, sit down and let me tell you about IRC...

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  3. Feb 28

    I welcome this fashionable captcha as a move away from tractors, fire hydrants and cross walks

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  4. Retweeted
    Feb 27

    Blaming the intern is the cheapest and dirtiest "trick" in the book. This also disregards any chain of responsibility in the company that is supposed to train and prevent people from making mistakes like this:

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  5. Feb 26
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    Feb 25
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  7. Feb 25

    "There is no teacher in the brain that tells every neuron in the motor cortex, ‘You should be switched on and you should be switched off""

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  8. Retweeted
    Feb 25

    Mutated variants of the word for “4”. Amazing etymology and word evolution.

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  9. Feb 24

    Fascinating read about the process of hiring engineers in (US) government roles: "No matter how thoughtfully written or well researched a policy is someone, somewhere in government will create failure from enforcing it."

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  10. Feb 23

    I really want to be happy at tonight’s brief relaxation of the rules in the Netherlands but it does nothing for the fact that I haven’t seen my dad in so long, and that we couldn’t even grieve together for my grandmother last year. But...soooon.

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  11. Feb 21

    Beautiful essay on multilingualism: "When you are writing in a language acquired as an adult [...] you are always cajoling each [word], doing your utmost to seduce, charm, racking your brain in the process, and challenging the core of yourself.

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  12. Feb 21

    This morning’s source of happiness

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  13. Feb 20

    Yesterday some asshats at a construction site next door burned paint off the building door and smoked my entire apartment, then set off the fire alarm. Last night it still smelled, today I woke up with a headache. I think this automatically qualifies today as treat day 🌷 💆🏻‍♀️

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  15. Feb 18

    Now if we could also clean up space junk, that’d be great

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  16. Feb 18

    Humanity sent another rover to Mars in my lifetime. This has been such a fun journey to follow.

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  17. Feb 18
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  18. Feb 16

    "Things only seem easy because you have people with 5, 10, 20 years of experience doing things that are easy to them because they did them many times before, because they made all the possible mistakes or thought about them."

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  19. Retweeted
    Feb 12

    MORPH is one of the most incredible tech / art projects I’ve ever seen. The team behind it (, , ) are bloody world class. Control Software, synthesis and firmware all written in . 🤯

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  20. Retweeted
    Feb 12

    This just made my day 😂😂

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