Abby Milberg

successfully ran `composer install` on conference wifi, AMA

Friendly reminder that cigarette smoke smells kinda unpleasant, but cigarette smoke plus air freshener smells infinitely worse.

Why don’t more developers “use the platform”? nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/w...

“What Mike Johnson is actually doing is something every product person will recognize. He is refusing to ship until every stakeholder agrees and the requirements are complete. That is the single most reliable way to kill a product, and everyone who has ever built one knows it.” l1nq.com/ynfsssw

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I feel like walking the dogs should earn me at least 10-15 mins of the dogs not having energy afterward.

JavaScript and PHP need to have a cage fight. Loser has to follow the other's conventions about semicolons.

Today, Upsun Dispatch™ is live! 🚀 AI made engineers faster. It didn't make teams faster. Upsun Dispatch is the software factory for human-AI workflows built to close that gap: workflow as the primitive, agents and humans shipping together. Get started 👉 upsun.com/dispatch/

RT with your home river (hey, why not something wholesome for a change?) These days, the Potomac. Previously the Susquehanna. Going far enough back, the three rivers: Allegheny, Ohio, Monongahela.

No, universe, you can't take Dolly Parton. You can have Mitch McConnell instead. And fine, that's not an even trade, so I'll throw in a walking carrot with a bad toupee.

Some people never had the difference between "want" and "need" explained to them as children and it shows

"You can't separate the art from the artist when the art is literally bankrolling the artist's hate campaign." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eBl...

Nothing like rewatching season 1 of Supernatural and doubling over with laughter every time they talk about how demons are super rare and impossible to kill. 🤣

One of the worst things in the world is when you kill a mosquito and discover it was FULL of blood, so you know it already bit you and you’re gonna find out where in a few hours. 😭

Every time someone uses @channel in Slack, God kills a kitten.

Honestly they need a separate boarding group for grown adults who’ve apparently never been in public before, let alone on a plane.

Paris has been cool but I’m so excited to see my floofs tomorrow.

There are always options

Bonjour, Paris !

The original No Kings day. Credit: chappatte.com

The entirety of my feed is arguing over whether Minions worked for Hitler and all I can think is: 1) we really live in times where “oh good, today’s Nazi discourse isn’t about real news” is a valid thought, and 2) y’all need Godwin’s Law

I swear to god CVS pharmacy goes out of its way to provide the worst possible customer experience.

Call me old fashioned but I don’t actually want BlueSky or Mastodon or Threads. I just want Twitter circa 2013 back.

Two Guatemalan farmworkers speaking an Indigenous Mayan language were arrested by ICE and forced to sign papers they didn't understand. A judge later ruled the agents' actions "reckless and erroneous," but their case exposes a systemic failure of translation services in the justice system.

It's been 40 years. Surely Bon Jovi has to be at least three quarters of the way there by now...?

I wish Duolingo let you turn off the dumb gamification stuff, for those of us who just want to practice language and don’t give a hoot (pun intended) about gems or streaks or leaderboards.

Most engineering teams already use AI. The real gap is whether the whole org is moving together. @fabien.potencier.org maps 8 stages of AI maturity, from leadership silence to autonomous agents. See where your team stands 👉 upsun.com/blog/8-stage...

Time for "State of CSS" 2026! This year's includes a super cool (optional) feature where they'll email you links to learn more about features you're not as familiar with. survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

To be clear, I oppose the death penalty… but so long as it’s a thing we’re still doing, I think getting “Wonderwall” stuck in people’s heads should be a capital offense.

The lovely @atmasweapon.com and I got to meet Jim Butcher!!! The only thing better than a weekend full of panels (and a small group gathering!) with your favorite author is learning firsthand that said author is a super cool and genuinely good guy.

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“Gut instincts only” ➡️ *promptly forgets every show I’ve ever watched and takes 20 mins to assemble list*

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Star Trek: DS9 The Americans Scrubs Community Stargate Atlantis Battlestar Galactica Star Trek: Lower Decks Leverage Brooklyn 99 Will Trent White Collar The West Wing Travelers Kaos Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Narrator: She turned the car around and installed Layout Paragraphs

Aghhhhh, I saw the first spider of the season. What’s worse, when I looked away and back it was gone, so now every itch or tickle triggers OH GOD IS IT ON ME?! 😭

Young Sherlock was a prime example of a prequel done right.

#StarTrek Fonts: The Thread This thread is going to cover the official typefaces used for on-screen titles and marketing materials etc. Not in-universe graphics, alien scripts or any of that. Feedback and corrections welcome! Please check ALT text for additional context. 🧵 [001/???]

How did I go from gifted kid to adult who just spent 5 minutes petting the Roomba so that maybe the dog would understand that it’s a friend