#techblr

[daemonhxckergrrl]

computer must be:

friendly - for all to use and learn !!

open - to build, tinker, repair

silly - beep caCHUNK clack whirrrrrrrrrr :3

[stagefoot]

[zzzzzestforlife]

"Stop Romanticizing Tech" 👩‍💻 Software Engineer's Realistic Day

i've heard a lot of peers in tech say they wish people would "stop romanticizing tech" because of their personal experience with burnout and stress and more recently, AI and layoffs. all their complaints resonated with me and for a time, i also saw each day as a painful slog.

but i think just a pinch of romanticism and optimism can go a long way towards seeing possibilities and opportunities where others may not. we're already here, after all, at this point of uncertainty and chaos. if we tell ourselves that we can't see it any other way, we only suffer twice.

so regardless of your circumstances, i hope that as you acknowledge the reality, you also see everything that could be 💛

morning!! 🌇

woke up 30 minutes before my alarm!! ⏰ been trying to fix my sleep schedule / body clock, so this is a major win!

leisurely morning routine and breakfast before work is sooooo important!! 🥞

peer-review code (~13x!!)🏃‍♀️

fixed a major bug!! 🐛 and two other bugs i found because i'm an overachiever like that 💁‍♀️

went to an interesting lunch and learn!! 😋

afternoon... 🏙️

hot-fix!! 🔥🚒 (for a component that somehow got left out of a recent migration...)

meeting with some beta testers that went really well ☺️ i'm so proud since i led the project and endured a lot... like, A LOT for it 🥲

another meeting, this time to finalize documentation across teams in preparation for release... kinda boring tbh, but necessary 🤝

set up even MORE monitoring in preparation for release + clean up some tech debt while i'm at it 🖥️

evening~ 🌆

meetings with my manager and manager's manager 💼 i can't deal with office politics, tbh, so i just view these as catch ups with older friends who i happen to work with...

internal testing meeting for a colleague's project~ 👏

company-wide meeting~ (basically my time to be nosy about all the other departments) 👀

💌: until next time~! 🧡

[dedicatedtechie]

[darksideofthecurtain]

[technicalmushrooms]

The world may be full of hate and despair but it’s also full of backstage technicians who secretly are wearing really fun socks under their stage blacks

[extremesocialoutcast]

Pinkie Pie gets contacted by tech support scammers, adapted from a joke I made on Discord

(Joke in question built off of this other post I made)

✰ Donations greatly appreciated (though with one small quirk)! ✰

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

Board Op: Lighting techs are inherently evil.

Stage Hand: Don’t you do lighting? Does that make you evil?

Board Op: A bit.

[bloomics]

source

[strawberryamanita]

If I knew how to mod game hardware I'd make this thing into a Guitar Hero controller

[thoughts-of-a-stagemanager]

Conversations with Lighting Buddy….had to share, hope you all are doing well! ❤️

[stagefoot]

Me whenever I get into the right cue before the stage manager tells me:

[zzzzzestforlife]

@zzzzzestforlife's Software Engineering Masterlist 👩‍💻💻🗃️

🍋 mostly for zesty to refer to when she needs motivation, but you can definitely use it too 💛

in case you're confused, this is not a kpop masterlist, i just find this man to be particularly motivating for my career 🤭

timestamps

🚲 build me up buttercup

☔ i am a lucky girl

🐝 drive it like you stole it

🍁 don't quit on a bad day

diaries

🐥 first-time project lead releases first feature

🏃‍♀️ romanticizing sprint kick-off

♀️ for my fellow women in tech

😇 chill day

🙀 if nothing else, it's a good story

🐣 baby zesty was so sweet and innocent

🌤️ if nothing else, it's a good story pt. 2

💕 small, consistent efforts accumulate over time

🎊 project completion wooo!

🌄 realistic day in the life

🏢 project diaries: a week in the life

🎯 career goals

🍃 coming soon — ordinary days of growth

asks

🧠 why i'm studying psychology as an engineer

💻 coding projects as a beginner

[moonthemagical]

Let's normalize tech theatre kids who are also regular theatre kids

[nameless-formless-entity]

watching cynthia interact with the thespians is so funny to me as a stage manager/lighting tech doing theater in college. cause like. actors are so much /pos. last semester i was apsming a show and the director INSISTED that the stage management team participate in all the bonding games and exercises at the start of the production. and one of the exercises was the meisner exercise they’re doing in rotpl. and my (and the psm’s) reaction to it was “this is weird and very, very silly, why are we staring into each others eyes talking about our hair color.” and the cast was so into it.

like it’s so clear to me that all of these actors are just grown up theater kids (affectionate) and i’m just trying to imagine how god damn hilarious it was for ari to have to act like they were absolutely baffled by everything they’ve been surrounded by (presumably) a good chunk of their life. and nim had to be so god damn serious about a high school play and i just can’t. imagine being at your job and having to act like that person from high school.

also nancy’s line about not being an actor and not respecting the profession while thinking she’d be great at it sent me. because like. can you imagine being on a film set FULL of actors, including yourself, and having to say that completely deadpan. i honestly don’t know how tricia didn’t lose it entirely.

[technicalmushrooms]

In her 2008 hit “Circus,” Britney Spears claims “There’s only two types of people in this world: those who entertain and those who observe.” However, there is a third type of person: the elusive, exhausted technician. In this essay I will