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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have held a grudge for more than ten years against a dude for being smugly wrong about testing, and then he turns out to be a white supremacist. Now lots of people agree with me, but for far more serious reasons 🫠

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Fascism, Taylorism, and Communism are all the same thing: a power fantasy where central control isn’t a complete disaster.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Every time I burn my toast, I get to blame a Democratic Socialist.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I was looking through old Massachusetts State House budget amendments and I got excited because there was one called “Revolutionary Spaces”. It was about 18th century buildings. Establishment politicians love history, but don’t want to be a part of it.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I am going to be appearing at the Danvers Democratic Town Committee that day, but folks in the Boston area: you should check this out. It’s my favorite professor and my favorite panel moderator (now both awesome authors)

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 09/06/2026

For the good of the entire open source community and all open source contributors, these people need to be sued into the ground

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is the book I recommend to anyone wanting to move from Senior Software Engineer to Staff+ Software Engineer. Cross-team organizing so we can do our jobs well is a totally different skill set. This book explains how.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is how people in power are using the tools we built. It is the responsibility of every programmer to stand up and resist.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

AI companies should absolutely use AI for anything they are selling it to customers to do. Customers should only buy these tools if their risk budget, like Anthropic’s, includes “it is fine if our entire source code leaks”.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I saw this coming a year ago. It is part of why I am running for Congress. Democrats have to be ready to take our seats, whether or not Republicans want us to.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is what I’ve been saying. And why I’m running for Congress. The problem isn’t that Democrats went “too far”. It is that our party hasn’t have the guts to stand up for Democratic values against the ridiculous anti-tax elites.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Anyone know which Democratic strategist is telling their candidates not to put policy positions on their website? When I said Democrats should try to act less like elitist Harvard academics, I didn’t mean they shouldn’t say anything at all 🤦

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Why on earth are people trying to use text generation to wage war!?!

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Notice how many establishment Democrats (including some of my opponents) are still active on Twitter. Sure explains a lot.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

No computer is prescribing drugs. Some patients are being allowed to prescribe their own drugs, as long as they use certain software.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Humans + computers beat computers alone. Unfortunately, capitalism & our tax code don’t care if things work well. They just want to not have to give people jobs.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It is too bad the word “refactoring” never escaped computer-land. Having a way to say “make something better without breaking it” is incredibly useful.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Trying to summarize the news now is wild: “He announced the hunger games, went after Tomboy X, handed out a donativum by stealing troops’ housing, illegally named a building after himself, murdered five more people, convicted a judge, and ranted for 18 minutes on tv about how great things are.”

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The CSP standard appears to have been written by someone who loves rules and hates web development

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Alone is just My Side Of The Mountain for grownups

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

In 2005 I decided to forever hold a grudge against Larry Summers. That decision keeps looking better and better.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

When Donald Trump said he wanted a war with Canada, I didn’t realize he meant retroactively losing the war of 1812.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Infrastructure is like crochet hooks. If we only ever buy the hooks we are absolutely sure we need, each project can require a lot of work to get started. We might give up rather than go to the store for just the one idea. When we invest in a set of typical hooks, we end up making way more things.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The flow of money represents the wants and needs of everyone in an economy. The problem with having billionaires is the same problem as trying to add huge numbers to tiny numbers using floating point. Except that in this case the “tiny numbers” that get lost are “normal people’s wants and needs”.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

One challenge I am finding on this campaign: I have great political metaphors that work for very niche audiences.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

When I was poor sometimes my friends & I would buy a lottery ticket. We didn’t think it was a good deal: we knew the odds. But for $2 we could have an entire afternoon of hope, dreaming of a better world that was even remotely possible. Anyway, I’ve been donating to other people’s primaries lately.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

“It is our fingers on the keyboard” is one of the important lessons for programmers. We are accountable to our users and coworkers for the code we write. When we are told to do our job badly, we don’t even have to say “no”. We can just not do that.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

That moment when I was excited to tell @martinfowler.com all about this management book I found that explains why functional companies split into Deserts and Forests, only to discover he had cited the same book twenty years ago in his summary of Agile 🤣

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

My favorite part of running so far is connecting with skeptics. People have a picture in their head of a “trans socialist”. It isn’t usually a curious motorcycle-riding homeowner with a pickup truck who is nearly impossible to offend. That moment of confusion can be the start of a conversation.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Oath breakers have no honor.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We were going to have a vaccine for the common cold!! This is terrible for science and for all the people who will needlessly die. But it is also violence against me, personally, and my long-suffering sinuses. If it weren’t for fascism, I wouldn’t have to live through sniffly weeks of misery.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

People trying to make fun of me on X are hilarious. This isn’t even rude: it is just an accurate observation 🤣

A quote from Twitter that says: “nonbinary agender queer” and it’s the most normal looking dude you’ve ever seen in your life

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Having to present our papers to a secret police force is mind-bogglingly un-American.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

When voters said they wanted the government run like a business, I don’t think the business they meant was KMart

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“Do you ignorantly trash trans people to pander to fascists?” is a test of basic political competence. It covers several important skills all politicians should have: A. Don’t talk about things you don’t actually know about B. Don’t play into your opponent’s hand C. Don’t bully children

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

This is exactly what the internet is for.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The Democrats who want to have the party abandon trans rights aren’t doing it for strategic reasons. They are doing it because they don’t like trans people. They are mad they have had to tolerate us to have a chance at political power in the Democratic party. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Remember when they caused a bank run because everyone using the bank was in the same tiny number of group chats?

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Given past performance, they wouldn’t have any reason to worry. I am running for Congress because they should have a reason to worry.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

To safely use AI coding assistants, we need a database that can never lose data, enforces authorization at the database level, and prevents injection attacks. We don’t have AI-safe databases yet, so AI should never touch production.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 18/07/2025

WGBH building in Boston today

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Only cowards are afraid of comedians. Imagine having all the power in the world and still being too thin-skinned to take a joke. Some people wouldn’t have lasted five minutes on the early internet.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We just went through a half-decade of sham censorship hearings in Congress, but it certainly seems like the government forced a comedian to get fired as a bribe to ensure a merger goes through. Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 17/07/2025

I've known Beth for ages: wicked smart, understands tech really well, and cares about its impact on ordinary people. We need people in Congress like that.

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I’m doing a thing! I don’t think the problem with Democrats is our policies, or that some of us are trans. It’s that too many Democrats are desperate to be liked by people they look down on. I don’t look down on baristas: I was one. I hope to be of service again.

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