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I've tried to write this list so many times now and just keep falling into "I've had an incredibly fortunate career filled with wonderful people who have taught me so very much from the very beginning." engineering_bae/1377317751937720322Permalink On twitter.com
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Massive shout out to filamentgroup - every person I ever worked with there helped put me where I am today. alistapart published me. CascadiaJS gave me my first speaking slot. npmjs surrounded me with brilliant and kind people who taught me new ways to think about the worldPermalink On twitter.com
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mattyoho taught me ruby and git, which landed me my first professional gig. tonywok and texel were there for me for all of my stupid questionsPermalink On twitter.com
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stubbornella taught me CSS before we ever worked together. maggiewachs made me actually good at it. aredridel dragged me into the future (sometimes kicking and screaming)Permalink On twitter.com
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I learned about browser quirks from scottjehl. I learned accessibility from wilto and marcysutton. I learned so so much about fonts from zachleat. I learned infra work and tooling from johnbender (also a _shit ton_ of math)Permalink On twitter.com
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ag_dubs introduced me to thinking about how people think. rockbot taught me tech leadership. agrivera helped me become a manager, like, for realPermalink On twitter.com
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ceejbot and i_a_r_n_a both have taught me more about computers than my brain can potentially hold. isntitvacant and a book by littlecalculist made me move from "pretty good at JS" to "Staff Engineer"Permalink On twitter.com
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othiym23 gave me a quote that I've repeated more times than most any other: "Tech is something that happens to people" and it changed how I write software from that point forwardPermalink On twitter.com
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I learned responsive design techniques from beep toddmparker and pattytoland (also the mobile first approach and how to be a consultant and how to run a team and holy crap Todd and Patty are good bosses)Permalink On twitter.com
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I learned telling a compelling story and the wild importance of data from seldo.Permalink On twitter.com
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I mentioned her before, but ceejbot also has been the closest thing to a mentor that I've had during the past 6 years. Her advice during good and bad times has kept me sane. I appreciate working with her every day.Permalink On twitter.com
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zkat__ taught me community building and about trust and accountability AND put me in my spot more than once on what my role is as a leader. Also reading her code made me understand big refactors.On twitter.com
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cowperthwait taught me how to hold it together when I'm far too tense AND how to control messaging in an effective way (jfc work with jec at some point if you actually want to understand marketing)Permalink On twitter.com
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steveklabnik wrote a book called Rust for Rubyists that I bought and welp now I run a team that writes Rust and those two things are _directly_ connectedPermalink On twitter.com
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katie_fenn is probably the best async communicator I've ever worked with. I'm a manager of a remote team with some level of success because of that.Permalink On twitter.com