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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 04/08/2026

Future me: things will work out just fine. Do not be anxious. (Me, after a week in ICU)

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 09/07/2026

How to keep going when you were already depleted? How to recharge?

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 07/07/2026

Just had a Staff-level frontend specialist tell me that we all should be replacing Brave with Chrome to catch bugs before our clients. Should I tell him?

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 15/04/2026

Someone at Anthropic sneaked a “Reticulating splines” into Claude Code thinking mode and my mind started playing The Sims theme song.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 10/02/2026

Fighting HARD against the will to change my role in Slack to “Glorified AI frontend engineer” because this is what my role has become.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 05/01/2026

I miss the professional I was before AI-assisted coding. I dearly miss the feeling of developing interfaces that were well thought out, delightfully created to not get in your way.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 25/09/2025

Trigger a developer with a single phrase: “You’re absolutely right!”

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 16/07/2025

@tanstack.com router + query + form is a breath of safely typed fresh air, and I love it! Can’t wait to have more time for my side project. I will definitely play with Start! Now, back to Dash and its global callback spaghetti mess.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 06/06/2025

JS dev here learning Python and thinking: so many for loops in lists (similar to arrays) with if statements that could be a single line .filter() method in Javascript.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 08/05/2025

I'm a frontend specialist learning Python to be able to work with Plotly Dash, which is a Python library that creates data visualization dashboards with React components. Why not use React directly with an API layer? I’ll never know.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 25/03/2025

Burnoutinho, meu amiguinho, você já voltou?

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 27/02/2025

A Pokémon Company e a GameFreak foram patéticas com esse Legends AZ.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 10/02/2025

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *inhales Tired, but have to keep going….

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 29/01/2025

Tech folks say that frontend is easy/useless/easily automated to AI and proceed to create the worst interface with zero usability, and with the shittiest code ever. “But it was so fast to build!” Shitty stuff usually is. Take McDonalds and Cup Noodles as an example (Sorry the rant, but I can’t….)

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 23/01/2025

Just discovered that there’s a 20x engineer: it’s a 10x that uses AI to be even faster/better. I don’t know if it’s a language barrier, but I struggle a lot to have prompts returning what I want. Maybe I’m not a 10x engineer 😅

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 02/01/2025

Happy 2025! May this be the year of setting routines and sticking to them. Be content with the everyday life, not just the extraordinary.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 19/12/2024

Decided to take on a migration project at work: react-router v4 to v7. Had to update React to 18, MUI to 6, and yeah.. I think I’m screwed. This PR will never be approved in code review. How do folks update their dependencies these days without this nightmare?

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 11/12/2024

I should learn Python in 2025.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 04/12/2024

Saw a React class component in the wild, with Redux’s HOC and all the shenanigans from 2018. Let me tell you: components like these are the reason people jumped the functional paradigm/hooks train to never look back.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 08/11/2024

Finishing another brain melting week. I had to do live coding while sharing my screen in an app I’m not familiar with, writing tRPC which I’m not familiar with. This is the most “get comfortable with the uncomfortable” experience ever.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 01/11/2024

Tests running perfectly locally, but broken on CI because some function isn’t mocked correctly… And this is how I end my second week at my new job.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 31/10/2024

New handle matching my website domain! I hit some bumps while verifying it in my Astro blog, so I wrote a blog post about it for future reference. paulapenedo.dev/blog/bluesky...

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How to verify your domain using Astro | Paula Penedo

This blog post helps you configure the atproto-did with Astro

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 30/10/2024

A lot of new things to learn in the new job: - tRPC (which from my understanding, is React Query with TypeScript steroids) - Monorepo with 7 different Next.js apps - i18n (even though it's just one language) - CapacitorJS because the monorepo is an app (iOS/Android) My brain is a slush right now.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 27/10/2024

Not feeling my best self after getting rejections from 2 different hiring process in the weekend. I really wanted one of them, it was the last technical round and somehow I f*** it up.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 20/10/2024

Nice to see folks from dev twitter starting to use this platform. Ever since the X’s ban in Brazil, this was the thing I missed the most!

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 28/09/2024

I think I'm gonna create a repo on Github: “frontend coding test I’d have passed if I had more than 30 minutes to solve them”.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 22/09/2024

Acabei de voltar da minha primeira mesa de RPG da vida e eu tô mais feliz que pinto no lixo!

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 18/09/2024

Voltando ao mercado de trabalho porque a startup que eu tava decidiu fechar as portas. Se souberem de vaga para frontend sênior/lead me avisem, por favor.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 09/09/2024

Já caíram os preços do iPhone 14 depois do anúncio do 16? Preciso trocar o meu 11 que vai deixar de receber atualização.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 06/09/2024

Dois dias tentando entender um memory leak acontecendo em um projeto Next.js. Já apagamos Lottie, Framer, feature flags… nada.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 31/08/2024

A melhor coisa do Bluesky é não passar raiva com dev brasileiro caga-regra requentando as mesmas discussões toda semana. Deus me livre dessa casta.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 23/08/2024

Usando o velho truque do balde com água no quarto pra melhorar a umidade nessa São Paulo seca

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 17/07/2024

I forgot how to handle people that are passive-aggressive, esp. in workplaces. If you have any tips and tricks, I’d love to know.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 14/06/2024

É difícil não se sentir completamente desesperançada com a vida.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 25/04/2024

Cansada, murcha, xôxa e capenga

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 09/04/2024

Acabou a paz dos gringos por aqui: Brazil is in the house.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 21/02/2024

The curious case of companies that want candidates with at least 2 years in their previous job because they don’t want job hoppers… In the middle of the layoff’s era.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 09/02/2024

Today’s insomnia gifted me a rare glimpse of the ISS in the light polluted Sao Paulo sky.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 10/01/2024

Changing the work computer to light mode. If you have any recommendations for good vscode light themes, I'd appreciate it.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 05/01/2024

My over-engineering of the day: Adding e2e test with Playwright in production using Github Actions to trigger it as a cron job every day at 8:30 am.

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 01/01/2024

First roll of the year and I get a nat 1. Welcome, 2024! 🥲

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Paula Penedo @paulapenedo.dev · 26/12/2023

2 bottles of wine, enpty stomach. I’m sorry my love, but Christmas is a bad holiday for me. I wish I was drunk til the new year. But thank you, love u, don’t leave me. (Non-native English speakers, thank you for autocomplete and autocorrect) (Native English speakers, I apologize misspelled words).

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