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Brittany Ellich

@brittanyellich.com
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Software engineer @bsky.app exploring the Atmosphere with @attie.ai Topics: accessibility, refactoring, AI & career growth Podcast: @overcommitted.dev Website: brittanyellich.com ATProto Site: opensocial.community #pdx #ai #atproto

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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 6h
Mines pretty dang accurate but I'm a little offended it assumed my cohost is a dude lol.
Illustrated character reference sheet titled "BRITTANY - Engineer · Builder · Storyteller," in warm ivory, sky blue, sage green, and honey gold. Brittany is a woman with light skin and long brown balayaged hair. She wears a hand-knit cardigan, jeans, and adidas shoes.

The large hero portrait shows her smiling beside a standing desk, holding a sketchbook full of developer stick-figure comics. Her cozy home office contains a podcast microphone on a boom arm, a laptop with code and a social feed open, a small blue butterfly pin on a corkboard, a basket of yarn with a half-finished crochet blanket, a stack of computer science textbooks, and kids' crayon drawings taped to the wall. A blue heeler dog sleeps curled on a rug at her feet. Through a rainy window, tall evergreen trees and Pacific Northwest clouds.

Six expression portraits are labeled "Thinking," "Debugging," "Hello," "Aha!," "Hot Take," and "Recharging." Four full-body views show her outfit from the front, three-quarter angle, side, and back.

Under "A Life in Ideas," she records a podcast laughing into a microphone across from a co-host, speaks on a conference stage beside a slide of one of her stick-figure drawings, kneels in a raised-bed pollinator garden with bees and flowers, and crochets on the couch with the blue heeler leaning against her.

Bottom panels show a close-up of crochet stitches, a stick-figure doodle, a microphone, a butterfly pin, her silhouette, and six color swatches. Handwritten notes include "overcommitted, on purpose," "the balanced engineer," and "Timber, always nearby."
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 8h
Yeah I've used it a ton for custom labels!
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 9h
Yeah it's really not great for stickers 🥲
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 9h
I have a maker! It is very fun 😁
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 13h
Cricut. Everyone needs a Cricut.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 13h
Hehe. Yes, email and a few other things, too! Happy to share more info if you're interested in it 😁
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 13h
I love this description so much 😂
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 14h
What's the app or experience that you had that made the Atmosphere click for you? Was there something in particular that helped you realize what an opportunity it is?
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 15h
Insane. "Hi do you want to pay more money, for longer?" 🙃
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 15h
Oof. Probably wasn't worth it 😂
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 15h
The absolute audacity of someone reaching out to see if I want to refinance my 3% mortgage to 7%?? Absolutely insane. I will die in this house.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 20h
Nooooo the orcs can't have it!
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 02/10/2026
Makes sense. Seattle can take it.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 02/10/2026
You're missing out, we have special guest @pfrazee.com making an appearance 👀
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 02/10/2026
I'm going to "ATProto PDX: October Meetup" next week! Are you? 👀
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ATProto PDX: October Meetup
It's time to join your fellow idealists, builders, and shitposters for another meetup about the atmosphere! Together, we’re doing our part to create a more social web so the internet belongs to us, The People. This month, we are honored to have Bluesky CTO [@pfrazee.com](https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com) with us, who will kick us off with his talk, **Crazed Visions of the Future!** Then, we'll once again breakout for discussion groups to have focused conversations about building in the atmosphere. **Agenda:** 6:00 - 6:10 | Arrival, snacks, hangout 6:10 - 6:20 | Welcome 6:20 - 6:40 | *Crazed Visions of the Future* by [@pfrazee.com](https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com) 6:40 - 7:15 | Discussion Groups 7:15 - 7:30 | Regroup and discuss 7:30 | Close Hope to see you there!
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Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
We want to make it easier for creators to link out and attract financial support, so we're exploring a new feature that lets you add links on your profile. They show up as buttons under your bio.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 01/10/2026
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Captain America: I Understood That Reference
Alt: Captain America: I Understood That Reference
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 01/10/2026
Took me around 13 minutes total 😁 I'm excited to see what comes out of this!
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Debbie T Knits 🧶 @debbietknits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👍🏼 🧶 #knit
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 01/10/2026
So much of my news feeds these days seem like they're very doomer-y about gen Z. The news did the exact same thing when millennials came of age. Don't let it get you down, they're just jealous that you're young and still have a lot of life in front of you.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 01/10/2026
It feels like a lot of backsliding right now but history has shown progress always takes two steps forward and one step back. Things, in general, keep getting better for each generation, on average.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 01/10/2026
Scrolling the quotes of this post instead of my usual morning anger scroll and this is a much better way to wake up.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 01/10/2026
I'm not sure how to say this in a way that isn't super cringey but like... It's incredibly cool to see a large company like Cloudflare continuously do such very good things. Way to go, Cloudflare.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 30/09/2026
It's definitely a claw day
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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 30/09/2026
i'm convinced the issue is a type of ego death. when smart people realize someone else (or something else) is smarter than them they have to reconceptualize their place in the world. anyway i wrote a song about it last night called BETTER THAN ME (I DON'T CARE) suno.com/s/6PdLBvAQwI...
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BETTER THAN ME (I DON'T CARE)
Listen and make your own on Suno.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 30/09/2026
😅 haha okay, I appreciate you clarifying that actually. ❤️
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 30/09/2026
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Ali G: Respect!
Alt: Ali G: Respect!
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 30/09/2026
Lol. I guess that's one way to deal with change.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 30/09/2026
I think it just means that cyber security is now more important than ever. Which was probably going to happen anyway given quantum computing improvements. I'm sorry to say that the writing your own code ship has sailed 😅
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 30/09/2026
On the contrary, I think I have the most non-STEM STEM degree you can possible have (environmental science). It was pretty neat but unless you want to talk about organic gardening I'm not sure I have much to contribute to science.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 30/09/2026
A watched eval never commits a felony.
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Will Garrison @vvill.dev · 29/09/2026
I bet we're about a year away from a polished atproto (+ distributed ai powered appview) marketplace sparking a smb revolution and the fall of Amazon, eBay and Etsy. Hear Paul's Predictions at @pdx.atproto.camp next Tuesday 🎪
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 30/09/2026
Does your burger even count if you didn't log it on @cheeseburger.world ?
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Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why don't you trust me?
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 29/09/2026
Would love to read it if you do!
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 29/09/2026
I'm very annoyed that they're the only real players in that game right now.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 29/09/2026
Shameless self promotion aside, there is a link to a GitHub repo in there that has a loop protocol to get ya started. I really feel like there's something to the whole "one direct task, 2-5 background tasks" workflow.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 29/09/2026
Well if you're into Obsidian and loop engineering, have I got a deal for you 😂 brittany-ellich.offprint.app/a/3mrjj34puv...
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108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering
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Marius Kimmina @mariuskimmina.com · 29/09/2026
I aim to read more blogs & articles, today I picked up addyosmani.com/blog/loop-en... I really think there is something too this but it takes a lot of experimentation / iteration to get the setup right (as @brittanyellich.com would know bsky.app/profile/brit... 👀)
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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 28/09/2026
What everyone doing “spec-driven development” is and has always gotten wrong….
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 29/09/2026
Aww I'm sorry. People (derogatory) are jerks. But then again people (complimentary) can be great.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 29/09/2026
I've got 99 problems and I think they're all understanding who Lucy Dacus is.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 28/09/2026
Not really, but we only really use TVs. We have a few cheap Fire tablets but only break them out for long car or plane rides.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 28/09/2026
I had just been using markdown files on my computer with Obsidian. Which works fine for local work! But not as well for remote VMs
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 28/09/2026
We will see if it works out but moving to VMs instead of my computer, and using Linear for my loop board. It's time to stop giving the agents access to everything 😂
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 28/09/2026
Truly 😅
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 28/09/2026
Another week, another completely new development setup. Can't get disrupted by other people if you're constantly disrupting yourself 😏
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 28/09/2026
My take is that I don't really pay attention to the screen time length rules 😅 TV isn't necessarily a babysitter in my house but if there isn't anything else going on and my kids want to watch something I usually let them. They seem content and well adjusted so far at least 😅
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 28/09/2026
Yeah I could see that being a big one. I'm pretty far from phones and am hoping it becomes way less common by the time my kids are older 😅
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 27/09/2026
I believe they call that a POOPCUP: Parent Of One Perfect Child Under Preschool age Adding more kids definitely changes things 😂
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