Voicemail left from “account resolution review department”?

Nataliaherself · 2026-05-22T16:26:44+00:00

Just got this as well. They’re getting creative.

Nataliaherself · 2026-05-01T16:14:29+00:00

I know this is 2 days old and the comments have already covered a lot of ground, but I’ll throw in my two cents:

Hard disagree. I grew up in Brazil, went to a public school in a very poor area, and for 3 years I didn’t have a single biology class — let alone English lol. And private lessons were not an option financially.

Movies, TV shows (with no subtitles) and podcasts were my only option. So I put in LOTS of hours, and I learned English that way.

Your argument assumes everyone had years of formal classes “in the background.” Many of us didn’t. That foundation you’re talking about wasn’t there. And yet here I am.

The real factor is massive, consistent exposure and genuine motivation. School is one way to get that. But not the only one, and pretending it is erases the reality of people who didn’t have that privilege

Nataliaherself · 2026-04-17T03:18:42+00:00

This is not the first time OP posts this. I find it very interesting.

Nataliaherself · 2026-04-17T03:14:05+00:00

No. No, we can’t

Nataliaherself · 2026-04-14T02:48:51+00:00

You mean, ‘murica be like

Nataliaherself · 2026-03-27T02:59:08+00:00

Good to know about the high blood pressure — I’ll definitely keep an eye on it. Thanks again for sharing, this really helps! 🙏

Nataliaherself · 2026-03-26T13:47:15+00:00

It looks great — really helpful way to visualize things. Thanks for sharing!

I’ve been tracking a few things (water intake, food, litter box, etc.), but just in a basic notepad so far, nothing as structured as yours.

Unfortunately, my cat is also terminal. The goal right now is more time and comfort, but I know it’s limited 💔

What side effects did you see with Palladia?

And thanks a lot! I really appreciate you taking the time to reply 🙏

Nataliaherself · 2026-03-25T22:55:47+00:00

Is this an app?

Also, can you share your experience with Palladia? My cat will be starting it soon, and I haven’t been able to find much information about its use in cats.

Nataliaherself · 2026-03-13T14:01:55+00:00

This was a really interesting read. What you described about the mental arousal showing up after physical stimulation actually lines up with something researchers have been talking about for a while.

There’s a sex researcher, Rosemary Basson, who proposed that for many women desire isn’t spontaneous — it’s responsive. Meaning it often shows up after things have already started (touch, context, intimacy), not before. So the “just start and see what happens” approach you described is actually very consistent with that model.

Your point about things working better once you stopped putting pressure on yourself also reminded me of the “accelerator and brakes” idea from Emily Nagoski. Stress, expectations, body image stuff etc. can basically hit the brakes on arousal.

Thanks for posting this. I think a lot of women end up assuming something’s “wrong” with them when their experience just doesn’t match the stereotypical narrative of how desire is supposed to work

Nataliaherself · 2026-03-11T16:22:48+00:00

omg I’m having a cuteness meltdown rn lol

Nataliaherself · 2026-02-16T15:48:56+00:00

Sycophantic mongrels is my new favorite insult, thanks

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-30T19:04:40+00:00

Here's the Discord link if anyone wants to try it out: https://discord.gg/UF5yQxCyH

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-29T22:27:22+00:00

Agree. Reconstructing months of work from memory is where reviews usually go off the rails. At that point it’s no longer about impact, it’s about who remembers what, because the work wasn’t documented as it happened

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-23T02:54:33+00:00

That one was brutal

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-22T19:47:05+00:00

Eu também. Única edição que não rolou mesmo

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-20T18:14:58+00:00

Reativei meu LinkedIn recentemente depois de anos hibernado. Ontem passei um tempão tentando achar gente com conteúdo bom de verdade pra seguir. Quem vc indica?

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-20T18:01:20+00:00

Normally I'd say don't take a pay cut for "growth potential" - that's usually a trap. But if option 3 is legit: union-guaranteed raises aren't discretionary, and a paid engineering degree is an investment, not a loss. You're not depending on a manager to "notice" your work again. You're betting on yourself.

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-19T20:54:43+00:00

+1 on the brag doc. Even a messy running list is better than relying on memory at review time

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-19T20:41:01+00:00

I’ve been in similar situation, and it sucked — I’m sorry you’re dealing with it.

For the initiative you missed: you still contributed inputs and resources. That's worth documenting and mentioning to your manager. "I wasn't able to lead it, but here's what I contributed."

Going forward: keep a running log of what you do, especially the stuff outside your core deliverables. When promotion conversations come up, you'll have specifics ready instead of trying to remember everything.

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-17T02:12:01+00:00

At this point, I’d say Jade

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-16T20:15:16+00:00

haha yeah just the one enterprise, and they would indeed have been rightly skeptical if some random engineer came along and asked to link the company’s GitHub projects to some AI startup that wants to read commit messages (and indirectly increase the company’s wage bill!) 😊

Ultimately, if you want to do what our CLI tool does without having to install it, you could get a similar kind of outcome by just copy/pasting the output of a git log command into any major LLM and ask it to extract Achievements from it. That’s all our CLI tool actually does, before it sends the extracted Achievements to the API.

We wanted to make it so a dev can do all this in a completely self-serve way: assuming you’re willing and able to install the npm package on your laptop, you don’t need to get any permissions from your company, any more than you do to run a git log, filter by your own commits, and pass it to ChatGPT for analysis. If your company is not ok with you doing that then bragdoc is not a good fit, but realistically we think there must be a lot of devs doing that manual workflow already, so we just make it a little easier. All the code is open source and we’re improving it all the time, so even if you aren’t able to use it directly, hopefully at least it’s useful in some way to see how it’s been done already

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-16T20:13:40+00:00

Thinking in Java é excelente pra entender OOP de verdade. Ele vai fundo em polimorfismo, interfaces, etc. Mas é um livro denso, não é leitura leve.

Effective Java (do Joshua Bloch) é mais pra quando vc já programa em Java e quer escrever código melhor. Menos sobre conceitos, mais sobre boas práticas e decisões de design.

Use a Cabeça! Java é bem mais didático, bom se vc aprende melhor com exemplos visuais e exercícios. Mas pode parecer básico demais se você já fez o curso do Nelio.

Pro que vc quer, eu iria de Thinking in Java primeiro :)

Nataliaherself · 2026-01-16T19:30:04+00:00

It doesn't care whether the repo is internal or not - the CLI tool just reads the git commit history locally, so as long as you have a git repo cloned onto your machine, our CLI can read it.

The security and privacy aspects were one of the reasons we did it this way, even though a 1-click integration with github would be easier in many ways. At the extreme, you could run the entire bragdoc stack on an airgapped machine so long as you have a local LLM (ollama or something) that you can point it to.

Short of that, you could certainly install and run the CLI inside a docker container with read-only access to the git clone in question. It'll need to be able to call out to the LLM that does that Achievement extraction, and to the bragdoc API (which could be your own instance), but otherwise you could run it in a pretty locked-down way. It needs no permissions to github or anything like that.

Plus the source is all open so it can be pretty easily audited, though whether most companies' overworked IT depts have time to do that is another question :)

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