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Portia

@pkafei.bsky.social
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👩🏾‍💻Owner of tech writing agency, DocumentWrite.dev 🐍Fan of Python 🌏World traveler 我会说普通话。

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 02/04/2025
No matter how many todo or planner apps I try, I always fall back to writing sticky notes and placing them all over my apartment.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I take back everything I said. This new administration is clumsy, reckless, and embarrassing.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Again, mostly rambling. I guess what I’m trying to say is there is something deeply broken in the progressive movement. And no, I don’t feel pressed to “fix it”. Since slavery we have leaned on black women for their activism. Count me out. I do not volunteer to take on this latest burden.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Also political messaging has consequences. A decade ago if one would have spent all their time focusing on liberal causes such as Occupy Wall Street and ‘eat the rich’ they would have missed: - best real estate investing market ever - crypto - the tech boom - heavily subsidized urban lifestyle
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Even with that in mind, I can’t stomach calling myself a liberal any longer. This attitude of “Well at least I’m better than the other side” has caused more trouble than we care to admit. My political support will no longer be taken for granted.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I post here, because I’m trying to clarify to myself how I feel about this political moment. Are Republicans in power my friends? - Probably not Is reform a cover for a power grab? - Definitely, but not 100% Could this end badly? - Yes
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Also can’t we implement government spending reform without terrorizing immigrants, trans, and black people. Republicans aren’t wrong for wondering where’s the money going. Instead of reform, we’re replacing one grift for another grift. Le sigh.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
1. The federal government is overdue for an audit. 2. Only authorized personnel should gain access to everyone’s SSN. Can’t 2 things be true at the same time? 🤷🏿‍♀️
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Love it!
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
You haven’t lived until you deleted you highest performing YT video. Definitely time for bed!
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Needed this reminder. Thank you.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Is the whole mdx project being maintained by just one person? 😱 github.com/mdx-js/mdx/g...
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Contributors to mdx-js/mdx
Markdown for the component era. Contribute to mdx-js/mdx development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Oh, no. Hope you didn’t already start listening to All-In! 😱 Most of the podcasts I listen to are pretty high-strung. When I’m looking for quality storytelling and laughs, I listen to: The Good One (podcast about jokes) Why Won’t You Date Me
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
It’ll do all of that, and more.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Unpopular Opinion: Are you a tech founder and want alpha? Spend a year in North Carolina. You’ll see how people REALLY use AI. You’ll meet millionaires who kill cockroaches for a living (true story). Finally you’ll witness that hard work, not smarts wins the day.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Want to destroy any PEACE in your life? Listen to “The Political Gabfest” and “All-In”. Back to back.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Agree. The left has vilified men, but I also think a lot of these guys want what their grandfathers had. An obedient help-meet who had to put up with husband’s poor behavior. And women are not going back to that. Personally, it wasn’t the left who told me not to trust men- it was my grandmother
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I think Trump is a fraud, but I no longer have patience for the liberal party. We are so much more than our race, gender or our parent’s socio-economical background. I admire success. And I don’t make rude assumptions that all accomplished people received “family help”.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Good article on Trump’s appeal. There’s much about this piece I don’t relate to, but I understand the importance of yearning for greatness. thepointmag.com/politics/las...
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Last Boys at the Beginning of History | The Point Magazine
I expected to find something of a political sideshow at NatCon; instead, I found a movement, perhaps the only one I’d encountered during my time in D.C.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I experimented with Replit recently and found it easier to just pair program with OpenAI. Haven’t tried Bolt yet, should I?
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Coding is now easier and faster than WordPress. The only thing that stops me from using next.js for all of my projects are themes.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Outlook is such a corporate tool. It prioritizes processes over productivity. Never worked with an email client that tried so hard to be indistinguishable from middle management.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So it’s not just me….
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is quite the site, Rachel. I love it!
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Smart strategy. I don’t believe complete neutrality exists- I’m fine with that! But I think acting as an advocate for a particular political party (outside of op-ed pages) is a step too far.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Thanks! I’ll take a look at this.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Not sure where to get my news anymore. I actually agree that mainstream media is too tilted to the left and has become an unofficial mouthpiece for liberals. On the other hand, it’s been near impossible to find thoughtful analysis (positive and negative) on a Trump 2.0 government.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Pet peeve? Website builders that *still* have a hard time handling breakpoints. I’m used to responsive working out-of-the-box. This has been a solved problem for CSS frameworks for about a decade. Low-code needs to catch up.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I suspect the many features is a point of pride for Stripe. I suspect the engineers at Stripe never got the features vs benefits lecture…
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Willman Duffy @willmanduffy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It’s so funny that GitHub has a sub-section in their Settings page called “Developer Settings” My dude these are all developer settings
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Honestly, AI tools make programming such a joy. I can build w/o all the bullshit that used to come with coding: No more dealing with “edge cases” No more dependency issues No more silly syntax errors
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
ChatGPT has been an absolute game changer in enabling me to actually ship applications. Spent years coding countless apps, just to abandon the 90% done projects because I was blocked or contended with an obscure bug. Coding with AI already makes pre-2022 seem like the old days.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Toxic trait? I’m a sucker for a nap. 😴
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 29/11/2024
every so often I get a comment like "you should sell a bundle of all your zines" and I really worry about my marketing, like that is the main product we sell! (though you can def buy individual zines too) anyway we do have a bundle of all the zines and the PDF version is 50% off today :)
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Did they find anything good?
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 26/11/2024
Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I know! It’s so surreal. I watched about 60% of it and felt so old. 👵🏾
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Very cute predator. #catsofbluesky
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Thank you Bluesky! 🙏🏾
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Watched some of the Node documentary and now feeling old. Joyent drama which was a decade ago still feels like fresh drama.
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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Traffic on Bluesky is up 500% since the election. How will they handle the surge? www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g...
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Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will they handle the surge?
Unlike other social media sites, Bluesky allows users to create their own algorithm. The site does not have ads, nor harvest data for artificial intelligence training. But it is still very small and has an unproven business record.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Since this is a safe space I can come out and say that I dislike dark mode. ▪️😤
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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 15/11/2024
I want to create an incubator that funds atproto/bluesky experimental projects to the tune of $5k-$10k dev grants. I am sorely tempted to call it “Chemtrails”, because it seeds the ATmosphere Hit me with your best ideas!
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Honestly, curious to see how this new administration navigates governance in the 21st century. So much of our problem-solving infrastructure is stuck in the past.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Not thrilled to be democrat-by-default. Americans deserve an election where civil rights for all are table stakes.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Christine Peterson coined open-source in 1998. So yes, it was around before ZIRP but open source’s golden years neatly coincided during the ZIRP era. And please, let’s keep assumptions about age out of this. Frankly, it’s beneath you.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Open Source was a ZIRP phenomenon. WordPress is showing us the code and resources never truly belonged to the community.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Entrepreneurship trick no one talks about- the power of building a business locally. 🤫
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Establishing a niche invites endless doubt and overthinking.
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Portia @pkafei.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Big problems, big potential. Which one will win out?
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