binx @binx@everything.happens.horse
Joined Feb 2023
@tylergaw Hi Tyler! Yes I would love to chat, I’m rachelbinx @ gmail :)
Hello Mastoverse - I am looking for full-time work!
I'm a full-stack developer with a focus on data visualization and UI/UX. I love to partner with subject matter experts, building upon their research to create tools for a broad audience. I work well with data science teams to translate models, metrics, and analytics into full-fledged web applications.
Please reach out if you know of any companies where this would be a good fit!
I published my 2023 reading list! lmk if you find any gems :)
https://blog.rachelbinx.com/2023/2023-reading-list/
@gahlord they used to - and I think they should again
@mez I think it's reasonable for people to specialize over the course of their career, but if you get in a position where it's "oh you're just the UI engineer, wait for someone else to give you a spec to work off of" vs. being a part of determining what the feature should do in the first place, which cascades down to UI engineering decisions.
@mez this is again super anecdotal based on the last year of my job hunting — but does one do frontend dev? full-stack dev? UI engineering? UX design? product design? developer experience? From a Slack "frontend dev" post I saw recently, applicants are supposed to self-identify: "We’re currently hiring different levels of Frontend Engineers across pillars such as Conversations Search & Channels, Canvas, Quip, Virtual HQ, Developer Experience, Line of Business, Network, Expansion, and Platform."
@mez I would argue that "dev things" should include project management, people should have an active hand in deciding what to build before they go build it. And to be clear, I don't think that pure consensus is the path forward, there should be a point person who ultimately makes decisions. But (in my anecdotal experience) PMs are ill-suited for this because they don't understand the day to day dev work (since many are not technical)
new blog post about how there's too much admin work in tech companies these days & why devs should care about project management more
https://blog.rachelbinx.com/2023/against-project-managers/
thrilled to announce that I am running a high-end tumbleweed gallery in Marfa TX
marfatumbleweed.com
@theohonohan thank you!!
does anyone have good website inspo to share? I'm looking to make a mock gallery website, something that looks high-end and super on-trend
@migurski tbh it’s probably the top 3 designs we made
:) I’m visiting my grandma and she has one of the original gifpops :)
@ratkins nobody knows 😌
binx
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Tethys lives! Researchers propose gravity anomaly under Indian Ocean is the ghost of the long-subducted Tethys Ocean. I studied some bivalves native to Tethys and mourn their fossils possibly subducted into the mantle 🫡
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea/
ahhh holy shit so cool, 19k more seamounts added to our collective knowledge, via radar satellite analysis.
this also says that only 25% of the ocean floor has been mapped by sonar… which honestly strikes me as high?
@avibryant@mstdn.ca ahhh!!! what amazing scenery
loving this essay about dystopias as a genre & why they are seductive disassociation from real-world problems. I was a dystopia junkie until a few years ago — I hadn't really been able to put my finger on why I abruptly stopped reading them, but I think this points at the underlying reasons.
Joined Feb 2023
