Erica Joy Astrella

@ericajoy.astrel.la

southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸 tech blah blah @b.astrel.la’s weirder half Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy

rank the water flavor: kitchen tap hose bathroom tap bottled spring plastic bottle bottled purified (plastic bottle non-dasani) bottled purified (plastic bottle dasani) bottled spring (metal bottle) bottled spring (glass bottle) bottled purified (metal bottle) bottled purified (glass bottle)

my 3 month post op scan did not show any new tumors and my lymph nodes are all normal, so i’ve got that going for me, which is nice. remembering to be grateful for the good things. 💖

cosmetic chemists/epidemiologists: hair relaxer studies linked chronic use to health outcomes. are there any studies on the impacts of hair bleaching (to include dyeing) in a similar way?

You gotta learn to ignore people more. Raising your cortisol for what??? Stomach tore up for what??? Sleep thrown off for what??? Put your hater blockers on and stop letting people stress you out for FREE. Gas is already high, friend, your blood pressure doesn't need to be too.

the california governor’s race is an open book test for dems and left leaning people. it seems a lot of folks haven’t learned the lesson hard enough yet and that’s going to have terrible consequences for all of us.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Don’t Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED

State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.

kqed.org

apologies for bringing threads bidness to bsky but this is wild…steyer’s comms dude basically accuses a bunch of real people supporting beccera of being bots…a claim he based on interactions with a fake account HE made. www.threads.com/@liaopics/po...

Kevin Liao (@liaopics) on Threads

I created a new Threads account and pretended to be an undecided Democratic voter. Hundreds of unprompted replies for Becerra. I’m sure it’s all totally ‘organic’ 🙄

threads.com

folks, i’ve been out of the venture backed interview world for a minute…is it now common practice to have an investor do the culture fit part of the interview? that just happened to a friend (no, really) and i’m kinda gobsmacked by it. (the company has thousands of employees at this point.)

Even though I've made this joke myself I actually really hate the "all developers have to be engineering managers now with agents" No, they all need to be tech leads, not ems. Unless you're having to deal with the agents' interpersonal issues and the PM distracting them and getting them promoted and

eng leaders, how are you handling the gap between “vibe coded demo” and “production ready feature”? i mean from both the software development and the managing the expectations of senior leadership POVs? do you give estimates for time it would take to make the demo production ready during the demo?