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Ankita @ankitasood.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Cloudy with a chance of AI? ☁️ @laranewsom.com and I had an unfiltered conversation on AI code reviews and the future of Angular during #GoogleCloudNext. 📺 Watch here: youtu.be/ce2dPtCc4ug?... #Angular #WebDev

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Angular GDEs Unfiltered @ Google Cloud Next'26

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 25/02/2026

This is Cookie. She’s very good at being cute but she’s bad at puzzles and totally doesn’t get sarcasm.

A petite long haired tuxedo cat with white mittens and white whiskers is inside her triangular scratching furniture sharpening her very bitchy claws.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 18/02/2026

I realized today that for the first time in my career, my team (8 engineers) is 50% women 💃🏻 AND 50% of our senior devs are women.

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Ai Dev Craft @ng-conf.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

@laranewsom.com #ngconf2025 talk is now on YouTube! #AI can help teams ship code faster—but how do you ensure it follows #Angular best practices? Learn how to set up AI guardrails in your repo so your tools generate quality code from the start. Watch now👇 youtu.be/eKtVjxfkva0

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 07/02/2026

I’m recording audio for a new Pluralsight course, and I am sorry. I simply cannot pronounce “contextual descriptors” without tripping over my own tongue. 🫠

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 28/01/2026

In case anyone is wondering about the crowd size of Trump’s Iowa campaign rally, just know that more people attend a suburban middle school band concert on a Tuesday night than were at that rally. 😂

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 26/01/2026

Remember when Kristi Noem signed a law in South Dakota to allow permit-less open carry so that South Dakotans could open carry their loaded AR-15s at Walmart and how she had the audacity this weekend to say “why would anyone bring a loaded weapon to a peaceful protest?”

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 07/01/2026

The solution is to refactor the store to combine feature functionality that belongs together into a single feature so the consuming signal store consumes that feature wrapper instead of the individual feature parts.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 07/01/2026

I joined a very specific club today. I finally managed to compose together too many @ngrx.io SignalStores 😂 In case you are wondering, it manifests as a “no overload matches this call” error on the first feature of the store.

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The Angular Plus Show @theangularplusshow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🎉 Happy 21st birthday, #Angular! Join us for a pre-release look at v21 with special guest Jessica Janiuk. We cover Signal Forms, MCP Server tools, ARIA updates, animations & more 👻 #ngconf 🍎 apple.co/3K9JyNP 🟢 bit.ly/4pk6oRJ

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Ai Dev Craft @ng-conf.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

#Angular developers: ready to level up your styling game? 🎨 Join Martine Dowden as she teaches how to structure and manage styles the right way—global styles, view encapsulation, modern CSS, component styles, and more! #ngconf 🟢https://bit.ly/3KcZGyd 🍎https://bit.ly/49UsIgs

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The Angular Plus Show @theangularplusshow.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Signal Forms in Angular: worth the wait? 👀We sat down with Rainer Hahnekamp to talk wins, gaps, and what the future may hold for forms in #Angular. If forms matter to you, this episode is a must! #ngconf #Angular21 🍎 apple.co/4qFovlL 🟢 bit.ly/3Yw8yCv

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 19/12/2025

Ooo buyer beware it might not work well against scrofula

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 19/12/2025

It would be time for the holidays without my family making a truly ridiculous Christmas card.

My family is dressed up like doctors wearing lab coats. We all have on blue gloves and myself and my kids have a glob of ointment on our first two fingers. My husband is holding a gallon sized jar of “Hermans root and herb curative liniment”. The card reads “this Christmas give the gift of Hermans” and it lists a bunch of illnesses it can cure including scrofula, dropsy, Black Death, restless legs, autism, French pox, and tennis elbow. A ribbon in the corner says “this is your pappy’s liniment”

This is the back of the card there are many photos of my family demonstrating how to use Hermans. In one photo our cat is licking Hermans off a comically large syringe. We claim that a spoonful cures belly aches, that it’s a doctor in a jar, and that it contains home grown ingredients. The largest photo is of the whole family. One kid has hermans all over their hands and is licking it off both hands, I am rubbing hermans into my neck, my husband is brushing his teeth with hermans, and my daughter has a LOT of hermans all over her face.

The text reads:
This Christmas, give the gift of timeless health with Herman’s Curative Liniment! Buy our classic 128 fl. oz. jar or our new, easy-to-swallow pills for the family on the go! With once forgotten ailments like measles making a comeback, why not trust a remedy from the good ‘ol days? Rub it on, eat it up, apply it anywhere. Yes, anywhere! Our all natural ingredients are safe for everyone in the family, including your pets. And how do we know our liniment jelly works?
We simply believe in our hearts that it does! It’s the perfect cure for the modern malady and the perfect gift under the tree. Get some Hermans today, your mitochondria will thank you!

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 07/11/2025

Fun fact: these stickers can express lots of thoughts about current affairs and fit nicely in a pocket when visiting gas stations and grocery stores…

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 05/11/2025

Election Day in my precinct wasn’t all that exciting, all the candidates I liked were running unopposed, but what did make it exciting is that my youngest cast their first vote in an actual election 🥹 I can’t wait to vote with both of my kids in the midterms next year.

Me with my two kids after we all voted, we are holding “I voted today” stickers.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 22/10/2025

This is where art and engineering overlap. Learning to not be precious about your work clears the way for tremendous growth and innovation.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 22/10/2025

It’s always weird to find the actual line the republicans won’t cross. Nazi tattoos? Totally fine, you get to be the secretary of defense. Nazi texts? Not this week buddy.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 20/10/2025

YASSSSSS!!! My expression changed from 😢 to 😁

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 20/10/2025

There was a Jay Bell shaped hole in our hearts 😭

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 20/10/2025

Once again it was so great to see my #angular family at Ng-conf! It was had a great time seeing everyone who could make it, and miss everyone who could not!

Selfie of me and ,as my kids call him, the Cheese Icon, Spivey

A selfie of me with two Michaels and Saud

Me speaking at NgConf. You can only see the top of my head peaking over my open laptop

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/10/2025

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 02/09/2025

Have you seen the movie Mickey 17? I think about it every time I open a new chat window, because I get a different version of CoPilot every time. Sometimes I get one that follows the instructions we added to the repo, other times I get the chaotic evil version that randomly deletes half of my code

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Angie Jones @angiejones.tech · 28/08/2025

Using AI to generate code is cool, but how about using it to DELETE CODE?! Our iOS team is using goose to remove hundreds of thousands of lines of dead code from their monorepo 🤯 block.github.io/goose/blog/2...

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When AI Becomes Your New Team Member: The Story of Goose Janitor

How an engineering team is trialling autonomous AI-powered technical debt cleanup

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 31/08/2025

I’m pretty sure my hell would include having to record audio where I say the words “asterisk” and “ampersand” over and over again

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 30/08/2025

It sucks to know that pretty much every government agency is now being run by people you wouldn’t hire to watch your goldfish.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 22/08/2025

According to my older relatives it’s a literal cloud that does computer stuff

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 22/08/2025

I think you’re the right audience for this sticker I snagged at @kcdc.bsky.social For me I grabbed the cat shaped one.

A green dog shaped silhouette reads “I code so my dog can have a better life”

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 22/08/2025

I put on my new phone screen protector and it sort of went like this: Reads “peel this first to avoid touching the adhesive” Immediately touches the adhesive 🫠

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 17/08/2025

One of the little things that bring me joy is that every morning, I crack my office door so my cat can go outside and enjoy the garden. It’s hot so I close my inner door to just a crack to keep the heat out. When he is done, he koolaid mans his way through the cracked door and it is delightful

The adorable little Koolaid Man. This is Tiddles, he is a small shorthair brown tabby cat. He is laying on the carpet feeling very happy that he got his outside time and his head is upside down. He is looking right at the camera and one of his paws is sort of dangling over his chin because he is so relaxed. I am also laying on the carpet so the camera angle is straight on across the carpet.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 07/08/2025

I’m so glad to be a developer sitting on a plane trying to go to a conference instead of the developers who work at @unitedairline.bsky.social right now! May your fingers be nimble and get us on our way soon!!

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 28/07/2025

I tried this recipe but I replaced the creamy sauce with shredded carrots and it was terrible, not creamy AT. ALL. 0/10

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 03/07/2025

Publicly admitting you know a bill is terrible and still voting for it just says you’re a spineless turd who doesn’t deserve that job even if you got some sweet signed merch out of the deal.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/07/2025

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 03/07/2025

And this is why I just donated to your campaign.

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Jennifer Konfrst @konfrst.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It’s official– I’m running for US Congress in #IA-03! This district is my home. I’m running for Congress because Iowans need a fighter for them in Washington and Zach Nunn isn’t up to the job. Join our campaign and help us win: secure.actblue.com/donate/jk-bs...

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 29/06/2025

My grandmother was a young British woman during WWII and she saw right through Trump. “Everything he does and says reminds me of when Hitler came into power. I don’t understand how people can’t see it”

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Lara Newsom or Nerdsom or whatever @laranewsom.com · 29/06/2025

It turns out that parenting also involves so much emotional growth for parents too!

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