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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 10/12/2025

Sometimes I'm like "I'm pretty average at my job" until I do some community work and try to help someone with their project and then I'm like, uhm I actually seem to be kind of an expert. I mean it should go without saying after like 12 years of doing this but apparently my brain doesn't agree.

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 09/12/2025

My kid has a music class and every week the teacher tries to send the same blonde kid home w me. And every week I’m like “that’s not my kid”. Then she starts looking for my (mixed race) kid’s mom everywhere until I’m like “yes hello I am indeed still her white mom just like last week”

Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 05/12/2025

Did a talk about building a WebSockets server in PHP and encouraged people to contribute to Ratchet (a WS library in PHP), and a guy came up afterwards to ask for advice on how to make his first contribution to OSS. He just messaged me with a link to his first PR (it's for Ratchet) 🥹

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a man with long hair and a beard is sitting in the back seat of a car .

ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is sitting in the back seat of a car .

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 05/12/2025

My friend got notes all over his building from a girl he had eye contact with on a tram. Trying to find “guy in Doc Marten loafers” like a real-life male Cinderella. They’ve been on several dates now. She is incredibly hot and cool. He cheeses HARD. This story may sustain me for like 5 years.

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 02/12/2025

I’d love to learn more about quantum computing but unfortunately I know fuck all about physics, and therefore any resource reads like the sci-fi book your weird cousin’s been trying to write since high school 20 years ago.

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 01/12/2025

Why do sales guys take calls that are, like, super loud? Are they worried the client doesn't have volume controls?

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 01/12/2025

It's so funny how LLMs are pretty much useless for most real-life use cases without tool calling or RAG, and so tools will be like "thinking... executing function xyz..." Congrats, you just made a web app of ten microservices wearing a trench coat.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 28/11/2025

Remember to thank Rebecda Black today for inventing Fridays, we honor her today on Black Friday

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 23/11/2025

I’m finishing up the last recordings for my Git course. Most of them were taken this summer at the peak of my body recomp, where I wasn’t drinking alcohol, avoiding sugars, gluten, dairy etc. It’s absolutely insane how different my face looks in today’s recordings

Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 22/11/2025

I spent all night slipping in and out of consciousness thinking the phrase “Site Reliability Vibe Engineer”

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 19/11/2025

Did you know everything always gets better? Even if only for a while, it's enough to stay around.

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 18/11/2025

New headshot. Basically identical but corrected for weight loss. Had to do it!!

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Katarina Hunt @katarinahunt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 18/11/2025

“Don’t step on my hoed, please go om it heen” is the most severe case of Dunglish uttered by my kid to date

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Any time I’m out by myself people will ask me “where’s your kid right now?” with this puzzled look as if she doesn’t have a dad she lives with half the time I’ve taken to telling them I left her to roam the streets by herself. Sometimes they believe me for a few seconds.

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Pushing back beating Hollow Knight because I know I’d have to get Silksong immediately and I just don’t know if I want to subject myself to that kind of stress yet

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A hill I will die on is that it is and always has been “bitchy resting face” and not “resting bitch face”. It’s when your resting face looks bitchy! Not when your bitch face is resting??? Makes zero sense, idk why everyone collectively deluded themselves into switching the words around

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 16/11/2025

I love when people send cold emails that I ignore and then send a follow up going “just circling back!” Baby there was no circle! It was just you there, it was a dash at most! Now dash along

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Yeah. Whatever, lol. If anyone truly believes MTG is a changed person I have several bridges to sell you.

Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 16/11/2025

Plagiarism toaster 🏆🏆🥇

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 14/11/2025

Dude jj goes so hard. The conference trail boutta get SICK of me.

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 13/11/2025

What I love about Amsterdam commuting: I’m a bike ninja. What I hate about Amsterdam commuting: Everyone else is incompetent

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 13/11/2025

Genuinely what is the added value of using this sort of phrasing in documentation? At best it doesn't communicate anything about usage, and at worst it makes the user feel incompetent if they can't figure it out.

A screenshot of some documentation saying "Solving this for arrays is straightforward -". The word "straightforward" is selected to highlight it.

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The worst thing about this city is that it’s small enough to run into people you don’t want to run into, but big enough to never run into who you do.

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Can't believe I'm saying this but...

Meme of a guy shaking hands with another guy, whose head has been replaced by an icon showing two bluejays. There's another guy in the corner with a cross drawn over him and his head is the Git icon. The caption says "Friendship ended with Git, now JJ is my best friend"

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Whichever PO came up with that Zip game on LinkedIn is a true communist hero saboteur. Imagine tricking the board into thinking their daily active user North Star is reflective of actual economic value. Brilliant play.

Rav @rvbdrm.com · 12/11/2025

More than managing WIP I'm finding git worktrees really handy for comparing the state of different branches without having to `diff` stuff

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My feed right now

A man holding up a weathered, gold-edged picture frame. Inside the frame, there is an image of a silhouetted treeline beneath a vibrant red and green aurora in the night sky.

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 11/11/2025

Ah great I thought I'd go to the local office for the first time and I've already offended a Flemish man by saying his accent is fairly Dutch-sounding.

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array_map should have a flag to filter out null values