Hello I am a software engineer at MongoDB, conference speaker person, and athlete 🏈 who is also building a Git course at gitlegit.dev (although I will mostly post nonsense probably)https://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nlhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3mdlbq6aml222Sometimes trying to get CI to pass on an OSS project feels like a fucking Souls-like run.29 Jan 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdlbq6aml222https://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3mbtrtq5olk2qwatchu know about `lint && jj absorb` 🥵🥵07 Jan 2026 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtrtq5olk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3madzn3bfik2fNeed. Don't have a pool, but. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Dec 2025 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3madzn3bfik2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3ma3rzqb2ys2p🥹🥹🥹 [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Dec 2025 09:03 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma3rzqb2ys2phttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m7nafzivm22uSometimes 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.10 Dec 2025 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7nafzivm22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m7kufpy3dc2tMy 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”09 Dec 2025 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7kufpy3dc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m7afnjb6x22rDid 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) 🥹 https://media.tenor.com/9Sup2y9ZmiQAAAAC/feels-good.gif?hh=202&ww=34205 Dec 2025 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7afnjb6x22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m7a63yhe4k2pMy 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.05 Dec 2025 09:24 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7a63yhe4k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m6zngjicik2tI’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.02 Dec 2025 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6zngjicik2thttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m6wto2qw7s2iWhy do sales guys take calls that are, like, super loud? Are they worried the client doesn't have volume controls?01 Dec 2025 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6wto2qw7s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m6ws4gkvjs2dIt'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.01 Dec 2025 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ws4gkvjs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m6p544lthc2qThe Bluesky Way [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Nov 2025 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6p544lthc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m6can4rd7c2gI’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 recordings23 Nov 2025 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6can4rd7c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m67du7zvis2lI spent all night slipping in and out of consciousness thinking the phrase “Site Reliability Vibe Engineer”22 Nov 2025 08:09 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m67du7zvis2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m62dj7vw5k2xOmg [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Nov 2025 08:20 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m62dj7vw5k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5yeexbnxc22Did you know everything always gets better? Even if only for a while, it's enough to stay around.19 Nov 2025 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5yeexbnxc22https://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5wl2qdpp22bNew headshot. Basically identical but corrected for weight loss. Had to do it!!18 Nov 2025 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wl2qdpp22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5v6mklods2x“Don’t step on my hoed, please go om it heen” is the most severe case of Dunglish uttered by my kid to date18 Nov 2025 07:09 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5v6mklods2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5uady3ywc23Any 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.17 Nov 2025 22:07 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5uady3ywc23https://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5u3w7zwb223Pushing 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 yet17 Nov 2025 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5u3w7zwb223https://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5tyzqfs4223A 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 around17 Nov 2025 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5tyzqfs4223https://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5twbe6njc23I 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 along17 Nov 2025 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5twbe6njc23https://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5r6wswcps2aYeah. Whatever, lol. If anyone truly believes MTG is a changed person I have several bridges to sell you. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Nov 2025 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5r6wswcps2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5qgrtf2dk2uPlagiarism toaster 🏆🏆🥇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Nov 2025 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5qgrtf2dk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5ltmp3szc2iDude jj goes so hard. The conference trail boutta get SICK of me.14 Nov 2025 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ltmp3szc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/pauline-vos.nl/post/3m5ljzboakk25‼️‼️🗣️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Nov 2025 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:765jsppzo6rgiqxa7h4duaha/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ljzboakk25