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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 30/03/2026

git commit -m “didn’t test this yolo”

Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 13/03/2026

My dad is a software engineer. Every time I ask him how to do something he tells me to install something else. How much of development is just typing brew install into the terminal?

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 23/01/2026

I have a LOT of students that now say they want to be independent or freelance journalists. Part of the reason I am now in higher education full time and freelancing significantly less is that the gig economy is exhausting. In 2024, I wrote 40+ features. Last year it was maybe 10. It’s unsustainable

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 14/01/2026

Women laughing alone with salad

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 10/01/2026

I think my child is using LinkedIn, help!

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 23/10/2025

Apparently asbestos training is now required for university instructors per my training library.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 02/09/2025

Copilot needs to chill because dude I just want to open my OneDrive and navigate to the file that I deliberately saved in a folder called COMS-359

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 29/08/2025

Do you have headshots that break the rules? I want to see them!

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 29/08/2025

Seize the means of product management

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 22/08/2025

Happy semester start! I got a new phone and didn’t log into bsky. What are you teaching your webdev students this year?

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 04/07/2025

My favorite thing about learning computer programming is how once you fix one thing, something else break

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 21/06/2025

A normal person would probably just fix the spelling errors and make some changes to the style sheet, but no, I'm completely rebuilding the site with different frameworks

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 11/05/2025

**Big Sean voice** That ass in higher ed call it ass dean Ass got a 20 h-index, it's ass-teemed

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 08/05/2025

The student: I will do statistical regression analysis. Me: Do you have training to do statistical regression analysis? The student: Um, no. Me: Then don't do a statistical regression analysis. The student's paper opening: In this essay, I will use statistical regression analysis to...

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 03/05/2025

Let me guess, you also used your "AI employees" for your responsive design. (You can't scroll to the right).

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 24/04/2025

I love my local indie bookstore!

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 28/02/2025

Does interrupting people and talking down to them actually command respect?

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 22/02/2025

Not me rocking this @molly.wiki shirt every time it's clean

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 10/02/2025

My latest cohort of web development students wants to write code designed to deliberately piss off the user

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 30/01/2025

PRs: Please don't manipulate your email subjects to make us think we asked you about your client or agreed to interview them. We know who we reached out to and replied to and it's a great way to NOT get media coverage.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 29/01/2025

If you want to give hot takes on how American journalists can do better, go ahead and pull up job postings for media professionals in a smaller American city. 1. What do the positions pay? 2. How many positions are there Then do a Google search for media layoffs. Oh yeah and everyone hates us.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 29/01/2025

Emailing potential sources for stories right now be like: "Given the continuous unfolding of more newsworthy and important events, could you make time for a Google meet with some nerd who wants to ask questions about robots?"

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 29/01/2025

What's really telling about digital marketing is that to sell website accessibility to CEOs who would rather leave their WordPress sites unattended and open to malicious code than hire a creative, the search engine has to be higher on the priority list than the person needing accessibility

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 29/01/2025

The best thing about teaching a coms course about How to Use The Internet Intelligently is that you might have to scrap half of the content in Chapter 3 of the textbook (Pub date: 2023) for all of the new information that has already made it obsolete.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 28/01/2025

I'm looking for sources on social robots and elder care for a feature I'm writing. Share this post with a great academic who has very strong opinions about social robots! Thank you.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 23/01/2025

Looking for academic sources who study social robots in elder care for a feature article I'm writing. Email me: nia at nia norris dot com

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 23/01/2025

Some parents in a nearby town were big mad about this being assigned at the high school. So I bought it. And it absolutely wrecked me. First, it had all of the makings of a great dystopian story: surveillance, social robots, an overreaching state. But as a mom, it was just a gut punch. Read it.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 19/01/2025

This one goes out to all the web development and computer science teachers that will be explaining basic file structures next week

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 18/01/2025

My insta video feed is suddenly just OF sex workers and while I respect sex work as a profession (and might even have a pair of clear platform shoes tucked away from days yore), it's not quite the content I'm looking for. Is it an influx from TT or the creators I want to see leaving the platform?

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 18/01/2025

About seven months ago, Google's AI summaries told users to eat rocks and glue pizza and now I get to assign the Hard Fork episode about it to my media literacy students

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 15/01/2025

Asked ChatGPT to make me a "My dad's rich, but I'm not" starter pack

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 14/01/2025

One of the highlights of the mix of courses I teach is that I get to make slides like this

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 09/01/2025

As it continues to make folks richer

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 09/01/2025

Want to make your syllabus accessible to people using screen readers? Go through the document and tag all the headings. Your very top heading should be "Heading One." Each subheading should be "Heading Two" or below.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 08/01/2025

I circle back, you circle back, we all circle back

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 04/01/2025

I'm so sick I decided to go to season one of Grey's Anatomy. The fact that they have Izzy screaming at George about needing tampons while wearing PASTEL PANTIES has sent me.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 02/01/2025

I gave two of my classes time in class to do course reviews and ran out of time with the other two. Guess which classes had higher scores? People who are happy won't take the time to fill out a survey. People who are unhappy will tell ten people on average. I learned this from customer service.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 02/01/2025

"It's too much coding." -A course review from my web development class

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 18/12/2024

Authors, your website is so important. I just read about a book on a major outlet and was going to attempt to reach out to the author or their publicist for a possible Q&A. The website just had a landing page to buy the book, no contact info (not even a form), and no nav menu. I left the site.

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 17/12/2024

How do you feel about grieving online? Have you found out about someone's death via social media? Have you reconnected with friends online due to a death? Did you find support online? For this #journorequest, I'm seeking personal stories about grief and the internet. nia at nia norris dot com

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 16/12/2024

Research interests: Playing with the robots Being chronically online

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 14/12/2024

Grading research papers and I can tell who the student journalists are by the short, direct grafs

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Nia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 09/12/2024

I'm updating my web development curriculum for next semester. What should I ABSOLUTELY teach? What can I let go? It's an entry level course for communication students but we get some CS students, too. I want to include more information about designing for mobile, but will that overwhelm them?

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