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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 17/07/2025

I can’t believe this is how I discover Andrea Gibson but I’m also eternally grateful

Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 15/06/2025

I’m almost done with my first play through of Fire Emblem Awakening. What an amazing game and feels like it has a ton of replayability. Three Houses and Engage were both some of my favorite games ever, so this was my next step in the series. What should I play after Awakening? #JRPG #FireEmblem

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 15/06/2025

Happy Father’s Day to my fellow dads! Becoming a dad is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, hope it is true for you as well!

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 14/06/2025

I am obsessed with this song “Wednesday Baby” by Midnight Sister. Her voice scratches something in my brain.

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 11/06/2025

Oh man, so excited for this as a lifelong #JRPG fan: “A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games” from @bitmapbooks.com. Look how beautiful it is! 😍

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 31/05/2025

Me: We need to save money Also me:

A Guide to Japanese Role Playing Games book

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 31/05/2025

Dude these Chrono Trigger boss fights are so much harder than I remember. How did teenage me do this?!

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 25/05/2025

Law of parenting 122: no matter what or how much you bring on a trip, your child will ask you for the thing you did not bring.

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 24/05/2025

Why do they make it their entire personality??

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 05/05/2025

If you’re at @writethedocs.bsky.social in PDX, come find us for some Writer hats, socks, and stickers! Who better to give these away to than a bunch of writers??

Two people holding socks, hats, and stickers

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 21/04/2025

The difficult thing about parenting a toddler is that they’re acting totally as expected and should at that age, it’s just that all of society and a functioning household does not work that way lol

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 16/04/2025

Love it. Is it the Andy Serkis version?

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 16/04/2025

All this talk of Ken Griffey Jr. taking photos at the Master’s made me remember one of my all time favorite SNES games: Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run. I was *obsessed* with this game as a kid. Anyone else?

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 15/04/2025

Finally upgraded my Kindle for my birthday after 10 long years! The size difference is wild. What are some of your favorite books over the last couple of years?

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 12/04/2025

Giving Undertale a shot, I’ve heard lots of great things about it. I’m about 3 hours in and really digging the retro and Earthbound vibes. Have you played it?

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 11/04/2025

I’ve been enrolled at night school at Dishes University lately, meaning I go through Coursera and EdX courses on math, comp sci, and ML while cleaning the kitchen every night. Gotta find the time you can when you’re working and parenting 🤷‍♂️

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 10/04/2025

Can’t even fathom how many hours of insider trading and anti-corruption trainings I’ve gone through my whole career, being told that even accepting a gift >$50 is bribery, and now we have a sitting president openly manipulating the market.

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 04/04/2025

Predicting that CS degrees are going to be in higher demand and more valuable in the coming years due to AI. There is way more to engineering than just writing code, and it will be increasingly difficult to prove competency as models get better at coding. What do you think?

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 02/04/2025

Something that made me unexpectedly moshi about this was the coordination with IT so that my coworker’s name changed on Slack before the announcement. They were so supportive.

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 02/04/2025

One of my coworkers shared his transition and new name today and the response was so wholesome and positive. A really nice light in a dark time.

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 29/03/2025

How it feels seeing all the Ghibli memes

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 24/03/2025

Finally added "now" and "uses" pages to my site. I've always thought these were cool after learning about them from Derek Sivers and @wesbos.com. Great way to keep folks up to date about what's going on in your life & what tools you're using. Do you have either? Now: www.samjulien.com/now/

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Sam Julien is a Developer Relations director, writer, and teacher. He loves helping people level up their developer advocacy, AI engineering, or web development job using Python and JavaScript.

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 21/03/2025

Oh nice! Yeah it looks like the official Steam store page is updated to verified now too. It had been a while since I had looked.

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 21/03/2025

Beat God of War (2018) last night. What a great game. I was so surprised by the depth of storytelling and character development. Lots of fun! It’s too bad Ragnarok doesn’t work on Steam Deck.

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 15/03/2025

Article from the classic resource here: git-scm.com/book/en/v2/G...

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Git - Rerere

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 15/03/2025

TIL about `git rerere`, which stands for “reuse recorded resolution” and allows you to ask Git to remember how you’ve resolved a hunk conflict so that the next time it sees the same conflict, Git can resolve it for you automatically. 🤯

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 04/03/2025

Unbelievable how kids just become walking talking sources of joy in your life

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 17/02/2025

Please remember that no matter who you are and what you’re going though You (yes you, especially you) are valuable You matter The world is better with you in it

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 17/02/2025

You’re welcome! One of these days I’ll put up a repo, but with LLMs you can probably spit out a template you can customize pretty quickly

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 17/02/2025

This has been my therapist-recommended textbook for the last year, highly recommend. “Full Catastrophe Living” by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 17/02/2025

I talk about work and career stuff everywhere else so Bluesky is getting self-care posts 🤷‍♂️

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 17/02/2025

One of the best and most underrated uses of personal knowledge management tools like Obsidian is creating a self-care handbook. I keep a “handbook” for myself on what helps my physical and mental health and it is incredibly useful. It’s like leaving notes for my future self when I need help.

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 16/02/2025

The struggle of “I need to follow the news to be an informed citizen to protect the ones I love” and “I need to protect my mental health so I can continue to provide for the ones I love” is so real these days

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 25/01/2025

Thanks for the great chat Danny, let’s do it again soon!

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 25/01/2025

Really enjoyed this conversation with @dthompsondev.bsky.social about the role of a director, organizational leadership, building cross-functional influence, and much more. Thanks Danny!

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Sam Julien @samjulien.com · 16/01/2025