Elena Tǎnǎsoiu

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Staff Engineer @ GitHub 

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📍London

GitHubhttps://gh.io/elena
Websitehttps://elenatanasoiu.com
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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

Terrible Software
How do I install a social skill?
Made the repo page 23% faster, AMA
Gonna change my job title to “organic thinker”.
You know it’s too warm in England when the men in shorts start coming out on the 31st of December.

Home renovation project in the UK: requires type A personality, careful planning and coordination between different builders/specialists. You need to align and allow for builders doing multiple projects at once. Also they leave early after the first few days unless you watch them. Timeline is a few weeks.

Renovation project in Romania: type B personalities are fine - call everyone on the day or for next day. Get everything done in 2-3 days. I’m speechless at how quickly things move. 😮

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Luton continues to be the easiest, smoothest airport London has to offer. There’s no use arguing.

As much as I love the Ruby community, you can't be outraged if you take corporate money.

You're either open-source and self-sustained, or you accept that the companies supporting you will also have demands such as security compliance and clear ownership.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

The British Airways safety video is top notch. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVe0FaBhUU
British Airways | Safety Video 2024 | May We Haveth One’s Attention

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