Full stack human, 🇵🇱 immigrant. 🏠 is us-west-2. Former writer, ex-AWS frontend engineer, currently DA 🥑 @ Stripe. Gallows humor is my love language. I made a Women in Tech Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/JdHEiGMhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.devhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3mkdqlon43c2wSomeone telling me in 2016 that in 2026 there will be an app that makes the "writing" AI generated for you "sound more human" [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Apr 2026 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdqlon43c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3mjfgrbchgk23Disappointing, but not surprising. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Apr 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfgrbchgk23https://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3mj6hn46gus2eConvinced my local bar to stream the Artemis landing #thisistheway10 Apr 2026 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6hn46gus2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3mj5lol5ohk26Something I’ve been thinking about lately since the rise of @atproto.com: I’ve had some sort of online blog since livejournal days (damn that dates me), and would love to consolidate everything I have (tumblr, medium, dev.to, etc.) in one place - is that kind of migration a thing yet?10 Apr 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5lol5ohk26https://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3mj46aueyrs2eAll of this is totally fine if you just think of Trump as a chaos engineer stress testing the U.S. Constitution.10 Apr 2026 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj46aueyrs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3mj3t23bhkk2cA uniquely Portland problem: finding the one non-vegetarian couple we know to take to the new central Texas BBQ joint in town09 Apr 2026 22:08 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3t23bhkk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3min2fb4d2c2dIt’s hard to explain how happy I am that a large part of my new job is just “read deeply about things and think about how to explain them to others” because that’s honestly my favorite thing to do04 Apr 2026 01:09 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3min2fb4d2c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3mihjvelvcc2rJust shipped a major update to stripe.dev, feeling really good about it!01 Apr 2026 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihjvelvcc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3miahttb6xk2pThis is 100% me. If it's over $50 (and not food), it's being researched and purchased on the adult machine, not one of those handhelds the young'uns do everything on [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Mar 2026 01:05 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3miahttb6xk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/annaspies.dev/post/3mi2zk66xzk2bIt's times like these that make me so glad I was an English major, not a comp sci major like most in my industry. No, I still can't traverse a binary tree, but I can articulate my thoughts in writing about why a feature won't work the way a PM thinks it will. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Mar 2026 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:mgvffntfhoqlds35cahyco3f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2zk66xzk2b