Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I played women's rugby in college. You get tackled, kicked, stepped on. Do you know what my team less safe? Lack of adequate funding, facilities, coaches & trainers. Do you know what would have only made it more awesome? Trans athletes. Trans people belong in sports. 050
Reposted by Emily NakashimaLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 22/07/2026It's out! As of today you can order the PRINT 2nd edition of Observability Engineering from any major bookseller; no more waiting for preorders. Co-written w/ @charity.wtf, @gmiranda23.bsky.social, @aparker.io & guest authors Buy: www.indiebound.org/book/9781098... or www.amazon.com/Observabilit... 811233
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I had been looking for this exact data this election cycle and OF COURSE @molly.wiki is the one who has assembled it into a beautifully designed, easy to navigate website bsky.app/profile/moll... 020
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Emoji reactions are training treats for humans 100
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 07/04/2026It has become unfortunately difficult to buy protein powder without a subscription. Must my little powdered nutrients be part of your MRR chart?? 010
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 02/04/2026My greatest professional accomplishment of the year: I got my exec & manager teammates saying "point positive," a term from whitewater rafting and kayaking. Meaning: when facing hazards, point people toward where to go/what to do, rather than drawing attention to everything to avoid. 140
Reposted by Emily NakashimaBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 16/10/2025These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔 19723191
Reposted by Emily NakashimaDORA @dora.dev · 03/10/2025Join @swarmia.bsky.social's @rmurphey.bsky.social, @honeycomb.io's @eanakashima.bsky.social, & @nathenharvey.bsky.social for a webinar about: • The impact of AI in engineering orgs • How leaders are driving AI adoption www.swarmia.com/events/dora/ #Swarmia #Honeycomb #GBGB #DORAswarmia.comAI-assisted software development in research and practice [online event] | SwarmiaJoin us on October 28 for an online session with Google Cloud and Honeycomb on what the 2025 DORA report tells us about AI adoption — and how Honeycomb does it in practice. 021
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 21/09/2025"These are Sabrinas. They aren't just a regular shoe. These are my Sunday church basketball sneakers." 010
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 16/09/2025This article is such a gorgeous portrait of the Valkyries' first season, AND, it is the most nyt vibe ever. Like it was written by an anthropologist who never watched a WNBA game before this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...nytimes.comInside the Most Valuable Team in Women’s Sports 120
Reposted by Emily NakashimaThe Athletic @theathletic.com · 15/09/2025NEWS: Veronica Burton has been named the 2025 WNBA Most Improved Player. 621034
Reposted by Emily NakashimaLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 16/09/2025the "from devops to AI" panel was brilliant. @eanakashima.bsky.social: "people miss how much of devops was about culture... the culture stuff is maybe more important than ever now." David Williams shared how AI is a black box we need observability to understand. bsky.app/profile/hone... #o11yDaySFO 121
Reposted by Emily NakashimaKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2025If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...theatlantic.comSearch LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AIMillions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration. 47575328
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I saw protestors on the I-80 overpass holding signs that said, "ICE TARGETS COLOR, NOT CRIME." And that's the whole game right there. This is about indiscriminately harassing people who look like immigrants, regardless of status. 000
Reposted by Emily NakashimaCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim! 83101986747
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Can someone from the Valkyries front office explain why the Valks shop has jerseys for two (2) players who rarely/never start and one (1) draftee who didn't actually join the team, but not Temi Fágbénlé who starts every game AND has the most important singing part in the pre-game hype cheer #wnba 230
Reposted by Emily NakashimaNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”nytimes.comAmy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship 6838631215
Reposted by Emily NakashimaLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I don’t know man, what could it possibly be? 261217255219
Reposted by Emily NakashimaCharity Majors @charity.wtf · 01/05/2025I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name. Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space. 1116926
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 17/04/2025This is heartbreaking and horrible. AmeriCorps jobs are such a low-cost win-win, providing helpful support for the communities, nonprofits, schools, public agencies, etc. and helping young people pay bills and explore possible career paths. bsky.app/profile/moll... 051
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I'm contacting my senators *right now* to ask them to shoot this hateful garbage down; I'll add my script below if anyone else wants to borrow. bsky.app/profile/erin... 150
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Do you own a fully electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid? If so, help me out and take this survey (5-7 min)? I'm doing a project for a marketing class on a new EV charging technology and you'll help us better understand market segments. Grateful for reskeets 🙌🏼 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comSurvey: Bidirectional EV ChargingWe are a group of UC Berkeley students working on a marketing pitch for a new startup focused on bidirectional EV charging. Information gathered in this survey will help us identify the best way to re... 020
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I used to believe in trans rights just because trans rights are human rights. Later, I came to see that the struggle for trans rights is intertwined with all women's rights and all LGBTQ+ rights. As James Baldwin said, "If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night" (1/3) 1183
Reposted by Emily NakashimaRachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 02/01/2025I regret to inform you that people have officially started circling back around after the holidays 1112421
Reposted by Emily NakashimaJeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 19/12/2024The "use tail sampling for your traces" advice should probably also come with a strong "you must be this tall to ride this ride" caveat Simple if you have a monolith, challenging if you have a cluster of microservices, jesus take the wheel if you have geo-distributed traces crossing regions 5405
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Friends, chaps are leg covers. The default chap form has no butt cover. You do not need to call them “assless chaps.” 160
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I feel like Americans love to analogize sports to business because for many of us, sports was the only time we: 1. worked as a team 2. received constructive criticism and 3. shared a larger mission before being in the labor force. I wish there were more ways for young people to experience these. 080
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 09/12/2024If you follow me partly because you are a fan of my employer, @honeycomb.io, you'll be happy to know you can now follow them on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/hone... 040
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 20/09/2024Me: oh god I’m so busy, I can’t remember ever being this busy in my life Also me: <casually googling “how to start a superpac”> 060
Reposted by Emily NakashimaAndrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 20/06/2024cnbc.comNew injection is 100% successful at preventing HIV 11717261
Reposted by Emily NakashimaCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/06/2024TURN THIS UP 4673131
Reposted by Emily NakashimaLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 12/06/2024I just want justice for them. Viola Fletcher is 110. A human treasure. Imagine spending your whole life in litigation bc your countrymen bombed your entire community when you were 7 for simply succeeding against all odds at the American promise & being told you are less than nothing for 107 years. 422393
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 13/06/2024Angry down to my bones about this decision. Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher have spent their whole lives fighting for long overdue repair. Justice for Greenwood. bsky.app/profile/phil... 000
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 08/05/2024Oof, Tressie left. If you run a social network in the year of our lord 2024 and it doesn't have Tressie McMillan Cottom on it, what's the point? <finally logs on to TikTok> 010
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 03/04/2024Every time I see a buzzy tech trend now, I'm looking under the trench coat for "exploiting underpaid workers," "money-laundering IP," or "unregulated negative externalities." (AI shopping, generative AI, crypto, gig economy...) Truly, there are other ways to innovate. bsky.app/profile/abeb... 02510
Reposted by Emily NakashimaDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 03/04/2024in reality, most of current AI is a bunch of underpaid data workers in a trench coat gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditch… 8308124
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 20/03/2024I'm on Dev Interrupted talking about the VPE role and one weird reasons I like personality tests as a management tool (hint: it's about bias) linearb.io/dev-interrup...linearb.ioPreparing for Your First VP of Engineering RoleEmily Nakashima joins Dev Interrupted to discuss how you can prepare to be a VP of Engineering, and how the role differs among companies. 000
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 06/03/2024Never not thinking about the time early in my career when we got a new VP over our department and she immediately ran a RIF and then gifted all remaining employees a copy of Who Moved My Cheese? 000
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 28/02/2024A devastating but very good read on the cognitive effects of covid erictopol.substack.com/p/long-covid... 000
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 28/02/2024It's hard to square AWS's customer centrism with Amazon dot com's obvious customer disdain 000
Reposted by Emily Nakashimadell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 23/02/2024NEW: Leaked data analyzed by WIRED’s @dmehro.bsky.social reveals the secret locations of ShotSpotter sensors around the globe, and the communities most directly impacted by the surveillance. www.wired.com/story/shotsp... 10380149
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Love to see Densho, an organization dedicated to preserving Japanese American history, celebrate Black History Month with stories of how Black activists have been integral to Japanese American civil rights struggles. Wish more JA orgs would do the same densho.org/catalyst/mee...densho.orgMeet Erna P. Harris: Writer, Dissident, and AllyErna P. Harris was a dissident columnist for the Los Angeles Tribune who penned scathing critiques of the Japanese American incarceration. 0169
Reposted by Emily Nakashimawhet moser @whetmoser.com · 03/02/2024a big thing for the very clever contrarian boys has long been what does *diversity* have to do with *science*?!?! anyway this is the 101-level answer 10851262
Reposted by Emily NakashimaMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 10/01/2024this @davidjroth.bsky.social take on the NYT's personal Benghazi, The Harvard Story™, is so good.defector.comHiding And Seeking With The New York Times | DefectorA story changes simply by dint of The New York Times covering it, and how the Times covers it will go a decently long way in deciding what kind of story it will become. That is something that the peop... 25620
Reposted by Emily NakashimaRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 08/01/2024This is a lie, and it's always been a lie. Something like ChatGPT needs a TON of text in the language you're targeting to train the model. You get it by licensing it, or you by paying people to write it for you, or by stealing it. What they're saying is it's impossible to create CHEAPLY. 492782964
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 05/01/2024There are zero allegations you can rebut effectively by saying, "But I have friends of x race!" Just, no. 000
Emily Nakashima @eanakashima.bsky.social · 04/01/2024If you haven't yet read Claudine Gay's piece about her resignation as Harvard's president, it is so important. There is a pattern to these baseless attacks and recognizing them for what they are is the first step in combating them.nytimes.comOpinion | Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than MeThe demagogues won’t stop with Harvard. 000