Robots at @cortexairobot ๐ฆพ Product, developer advocacy, XR neurotech ๐ง Unapologetically Indonesian. @Wellesley alum. She/her/dia.
Singapore + NYC
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I'm from the island of Java, Indonesia.
I am the Java Garbage Collector.
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In case anyone is wondering what it's like being a Succession fan living in New York City, today there were several people at Battery Park at sunset giving their phones to other ppl so that they could sit on a bench and have a photo of the back of their heads, Kendall Roy style.
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The word "partner" is so fun cause it's like
Ooh, are they dating?
Do they do business together?
Are they cowboys and is this town too small for the both of them?
Who's to say.
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I thought that this was just an Indonesian thing
and then I discovered that Dutch people do this too
and then I remembered The Colonization.
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Re: impostor syndrome. Someone once said to me
"You think that you don't belong here and that everyone is smarter than you. But do you really believe that you are clever enough to trick all these smart people into thinking that you deserve to be here if you don't?"
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Today I learned about the "squircle" (right)
which is different from a "rounded square" (left).
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Meghan's friends introduced her to a prince. The only people I get introduced to are tech bros who say "I have the next big startup idea. It's like Uber but for dogs and it uses blockchain and VR. I need you to build everything and I'll pay you in equity" smh.
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If I worked at Deloitte I would simply greet my coworkers every morning by saying "Deloitted to meet you."
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I GOT THE JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!๐
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In Bahasa Indonesia, we call selfie sticks "tongsis".
Tong = tongkat = stick.
Sis = narsis = narcissistic.
Our word for selfie stick is narcissistick.
I'm disappointed that we didn't call it this in English.
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Hi, yes, it's me, person who codes.
You might know me from my questionable search history queries like "how to remove child from parent with fork" and "how to kill orphan".
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And something just clicked in my head.
Like wow, you're right. If I am genuinely undeserving to be here, do I really believe that I managed to fool all the people I admire? They would have seen through me for sure, so maybe I do deserve to be here?
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"Where are you from?"
Jakarta.
"Where is that?"
It's on Java, Indonesia. Kinda between *Asia* and where Australia is.
"Huh?"
It's next to Obama's kindergarten and one rhino ride away to Rich Brian's house. I have a tropical rainforest in my backyard. Indomie seleraku, folks.
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ME: Is there a dress code at the office?
HR: No, we're a tech company. Wear whatever you want.
ME: Excellent.
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Today is my first day on my new job.
I'm Facebook's newest Developer Advocate! ๐
I GOT THE JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!๐
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MY JOB DESCRIPTION: You need to build trust with developers.
ME, TALKING TO DEVELOPERS: WASSUP NERDS??? โ๏ธ
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Overseen on Subtle Indonesian Traits.
Bahasa Indonesia is such an efficient language ๐
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So, you're an international student. Or maybe you stayed in the US after college.
Point is, you're here, and your adopted home is hurting.
You want to do something, but there's a lot you cannot do without risking your immigration status!
Resources I've been compiling. ๐
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The fun part about going to school in Boston next to Harvard and MIT is that you meet people at parties and their last name is the name of a giant corporation and you realise that's not an accident.
You know, like "Thomas Schwab" or "Alice Bankofamerica"
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I moved to the United States 6 years ago.
Sometimes I feel like I have American culture worked out and then I learn that the Chuck E. Cheese mascot's full name is
CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CHEESE.
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"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"
Yeah so I moved an image in Microsoft Word and all the text jumped to the bottom of the image and I don't know how to get rid of it so I just kept it.
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Today a 12 year old girl asked me whether I'm a gamer.
I told her that yeah, I like playing video games.
Then she asked me if I play Minecraft.
I told her that it was a little bit after my time.
And then she told me that I'm old.
And not a real gamer.
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what if ๐ we kissed ๐ณ at the merge conflict between your branch and my branch ๐
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Imagine being forced into a management role when all you really wanted to be was a high performing individual contributor.
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Things became nicer once I stopped calling them "goals" and started calling them "quests".
As in "here are my quests for Q4 2020".
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I just discovered the "Meet The Team" pages in the new React Docs.
These bios are actually adorable omg. ๐ญ
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A series where I interview tech people but only ask non-tech things.
Like "tell me about your skincare routine" or "what's your favourite Pokemon?"
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Babe are you okay? You've barely touched your "what if you could take a photo of what's in your fridge and use machine learning to generate recipes" hackathon side project.
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Personal news: I no longer work on astronaut tools and I now work on neural interfaces at @CTRLlabsCo, a company that uses ML so that you can control computers using your brain. Non-invasive, no camera. Excited for accessibility + medical + VR applications of this!
Links below.
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I transitioned from being a software engineer to being a product manager.
It was an adjustment that I wish I were better prepared for.
I wish someone talked to me about some of the challenges of making this jump, esp re: trying to articulate my value add. ๐งต
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This came to me in a dream and I had to make it.
I am so sorry to the machine learning community.
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INTERVIEWER: Can you explain the gap in your resume?
ME: Yeah, do you know what a ronin is?
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US PEOPLE: Where are you from?
ME: Indonesia.
PPL: But your English is so good!
ME: Yeah I've been speaking English for most of my life.
PPL: But... you're from Indonesia.
ME: Yep, they teach English there too.
PPL: You don't have an accent?
ME: This is an American accent.
Please give me an example of something someone said to you that was so astonishingly stupid that you can never forget it.
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Google has this tool for copying code between repositories.
It's called copybara.
IT'S CALLED COPYBARA!
๐ฅบ๐๐
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Dog tax. I brought my Number One Boy with me to the Number One Boy spot after I promised my media empire (this Twitter account) to him.
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๐๐๐ is the most diverse team I've ever worked on.
I can't believe we did this! ๐
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I'm a woman of colour in tech and I had the opposite happen to me.
One time I had a technical interview turn into a non-technical interview because "we felt like maybe you weren't interested in being an engineer".
Bro, I applied as a software engineer.
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Me, hunched over in front of my laptop, telling people about how great this chair has been for my posture.
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I tried to make "formal Fridays" a thing, and was informed that people fought for our rights to wear hoodies to work.
I apologise
for being so ignorant
to the struggles
of those who came before us.
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Concept: tech meetup but make it "bring your own tea" and there's a makeup artist there so that we can all take some really cute photos.
Also dogs are somehow involved.
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Do you like #AnimalCrossing
Do you like artificial intelligence ๐ป
Do you like workshops ๐ง
acaiworkshop.com
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PEOPLE: Where are you from?
ME: Indonesia.
PEOPLE: Oh! My sister went to Japan last year with her husband.
ME:
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In Indonesia, we don't say "I love you". We say "om telolet om" which translates to "your presence is like the sun of my life" and I think that's beautiful. ๐๐
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I had by 2007 birthday in the Falador party room, and struggled to explain why I would celebrate my birthday this way.
Anyway, I'm logging back into Runescape to bring this back.
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Today is the first day in the Year of the Water Tiger.
After 2 years at FB/Meta, tomorrow will be my last day.
Joining via one of the company's largest acquisitions was a wild adventure, and now it's time for the next adventure.
New year. New beginnings.
Let's goooooooo! ๐ฏโจ
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One of my favourite things about Indonesian is that the word for "fiancรฉ" (calon suami) literally translates to "husband candidate" like they had to submit a resume, interview, and wait to see if they got the offer.
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A few years ago, I was in Silicon Valley for a job, trying to build a life there, trying to make new friends etc.
Tech bros were constantly telling me how lucky I was to be an Asian woman there.
At the time, I struggled to articulate why this made me so uncomfortable.
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Some personal news.
I've noticed that the people I admire most in tech have this one quality.
It's years in the making, but I can confidently say that I've developed this quality in myself too.
It's carpal tunnel.
I have carpal tunnel.
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Every day in quarantine I wake up and ask myself which free "sorry the smallest size we have is a Men's M" hackathon career fair tech shirt I'm going to wear today.
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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Here's how you can support as an ally:
1. Consider leaving me alone for 31 days.
2.
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One time I was volunteering at a university hackathon as a technical mentor.
Someone posted in Slack that they needed Unity help so I came over to their table and they told me that they actually needed an engineer.
So I was like "ohh ok" and walked back to my pizza.
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I'm at @reactjs conf right now.
The talks are in English, but the conference hired linguists to support several different languages.
There's also a whole team of moderators to enforce the CoC just for this event.
Little things that make a big difference to me. ๐ค
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Sometimes people will ask me whether I know their Indonesian friend.
And I'm like "we are the 4th most populous country in the world, not all Indonesians know each other, it's wild of you to assume tha-- oh wait that's my cousin".
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My new followers: oh boy I sure am glad to be following an engineer who works on space stuff.
Me: HELLO FOLKS, TODAY WE'RE RATING THE HUGABILITY OF THIS SATELLITE. THIS IS REAL SCIENCE I PRomis e.
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I didn't know how to code 3 years ago.
In the last 3 years I contributed to a Steam Top Seller game, worked on a ton of hackathon projects, had the honour of working at MIT Media Lab + Apple, and now I make navigation software for a NASA lab. nitter.app/jasongorman/status/954โฆ
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My career ambitions?
I want to make enough money to give my dog a good life.
Every morning I show up to standup, for my dog.
When I cold email, it's for my dog.
Gaslight? Gatekeep? Girlboss?
For my dog.
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Instead of saying "hey guys", consider these other options:
- Hey folks
- Hey team
- 'sup nerds
- Your majesties
- My dudes, my babes, my enby folks
- From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. Here is what you need to know at standup.
- LMAOOOOO BISH GUESS WHAT
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If you're like me and you love:
1. Augmented reality.
2. Fashion.
3. Fun dancing in motion capture.
Then you should check our Mirror Mirror, a t-shirt design system that uses the Kinekt to capture gestures for shirt design. ๐
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