Nikki Pinski (she/her)

Nikki Pinski (she/her)

@nikkipin.ski

Principal Meme Engineer. Support Ukraine & Trans lives NOW, when it matters the most.

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Gravity wells and disillusionment troughs: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineering. I wrote about my journey with AI software dev. I'm starting with why, for those cynical, suspicious, or ambivalent, as I was only 2 months ago. Jump ahead if you're beyond that (linked below).

nikkipin.skiGravity wells and disillusionment troughs: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineeringor: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Claude NOTE: This is a series on my education with AI-driven software development. I'm starting with why, for those cynical, suspicious, or ambivalent ...
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Gravity wells and disillusionment troughs: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineering. I wrote about my journey with AI software dev. I'm starting with why, for those cynical, suspicious, or ambivalent, as I was only 2 months ago. Jump ahead if you're beyond that (linked below).

nikkipin.skiGravity wells and disillusionment troughs: A Practical guide to Agentic Engineeringor: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Claude NOTE: This is a series on my education with AI-driven software development. I'm starting with why, for those cynical, suspicious, or ambivalent ...

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The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Today is my last day at AWS after 13 years!! In retrospect I don't know what else to say about it. A thread doesn't feel like enough. A book might get me sued. 💀 Onwards and forwards! I'm staying in tech but not American Big Tech. So do with that hint what you will.

Big news coming...

Narcissists are overrepresented in executive class running companies. Narcissists love sycophants. Gen AI is a sycophantic technology. Executives across all industries are obsessed with Gen AI. Gee, who could've seen that coming.

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2) Vancouver. I am loving the blue, I am *LOVING* the cream, and I am L😍O🥰V🤩I💖N💗G the blue + cream + orange. Please don't f*** up the logo/name announcement next month. 9.5/10 1) Montreal Victoire. 10/10. It's perfect. The colour, the name, the logo, No notesy 4/4 fin.

6) Boston Fleet. Bland B, meh green. But I dunno. It's kind of a vibe, especially with the cyan trim. 7.5/10 5) Seattle. I was hoping for more vibrancy in the Green. But that cream...oh it's so good. Foreshadowing. 7.5/10 2/4

4) Toronto Sceptres. Great logo, good balance between blue & gold. But Yellow=Saskatchewan not Toronto, otherwise we'd be a 9. 8/10 3) NY Sirens. Love the NY style, logo is itself Siren, and S-S-S being sound waves? GREAT. 8.5/10 3/4

This cut. The needle drop to Steely Dan. I burst out into tears. I'm not even kidding. One Battle After Another is as good as you heard. I cried at the end too, but it's the end of Act One that's staying with me and I can't stop thinking about the next day.

james 🐎🔫@buffalocia.bsky.social

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

I've been surprisingly restrained with making trans girl memes, so far in my transition, even though making memes is like my love language. So here's one, in honour of fall starting properly.

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Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The Economist@economist.com

A recent study found that children who transitioned young retained stable gender identities over time. But the fact that nearly a fifth of those in the group did not ought to give advocates of irreversible medical interventions pause

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Replying to @fizbin.bsky.social

So yes npm is the Node Package Manager, but it is not an acronym for Node Package Manager, it is an acronym for "npm is NOT an acronym", which is kind of a homage to the acronym GNU which, you know how when most people refer to Linux what they're actually referring to is, in fact, GNU/Linux, and...

So, I don't think it's great that the late-night host responses l to the Kimmel thing was to make a version of the same joke by mockingly "acquiescing" to Trump by praising him. The fascists don't care. They can't tell sarcasm. Mock surrender to censorship is still surrender to censorship.

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Megyn Kelly says it best, MAGA got so upset that an educated Black man became president that they’ve chosen to destroy all that makes America great and want it to become a white ethnostate to ensure it never happens again. Everything happening today is because Obama was a successful president.

yahoo.comMegyn Kelly blames Obama for America’s divisions in reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murderThe conservative political commentator brought up the former president when asked about how she is handling the death of Charlie

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the solarposting will continue until morale improves

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling. I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

I recognize that "follow != endorse" but 50 is still disheartening. DHH has gone from arbitrary "I just want to focus on running a company not solving every DEI world issue" concerns to railing against non-white immigration & now gender ideology grooming talking points. Enough. Forget this fool.

Rookie ADHD procrastinator behaviour. That's when you hit 'em with one of: * "Oh i was working on it offline" or * "Oops I think I must've had access to an older version" Then you LOCK IN and do everything in the time it would've taken a neurotypical to copy and paste a paragraph in Sharepoint.

When I was 15 I bombed an internship interview at EASports (the age is a story for another time). EA: Do you know linear algebra? Me (lying): Yes. EA: I didn't think Math 200 at UBC taught linear algebra, isn't it calculus? Me: I looked at some things on my own time. EA: What things? 1/2

Me (and this is an exact quote that I'll never forget because it is so cringe): "I had to push what I learned out of my mind so that I wouldn't be confused with the calculus course I was taking.". So anyways that was a more believable and plausible story than what Elon pitched here. 2/2

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You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.