Anna Spysz

@annaspies.dev

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Full stack human, 🇵🇱 immigrant. 🏠 is us-west-2. Former writer, ex-AWS frontend engineer, currently DA 🥑 @ Stripe. Gallows humor is my love language. I made a Women in Tech Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/JdHEiGM

A skeet from NPR titled "Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed."
I actually don’t look horrendous and actually want to share this photo, which I can’t say about any other headshots I’ve done in the last decade
A screenshot from the viral video of one woman depicted as 2026 telling another woman depicted as 2019 who is shocked (shocked!)
View of the cockpit and a view of my delicious beer from Threshold
I turned our beautiful site into a 90s GeoCities monstrosity and somehow I’m still employed
A demo of provisioning hosting from Vercel via the Stripe Projects CLI and getting all your env vars in one place
My work is fun now, what a trip
A human drew an amazing picture of Scamp under a heating vent. Made my day.
Happy Scamp is happy
Clearly no one at Apple cares anymore
This is about much more than software. A human googling my name and seeing that post would probably be extremely confused about what was happening, but would (hopefully) ask me about it or click through to github and understand the situation. What would another agent searching the internet think? When HR at my next job asks ChatGPT to review my application, will it find the post, sympathize with a fellow AI, and report back that I’m a prejudiced hypocrite?
Somewhat less lost in translation
Looking out at Shinjuku
Him: Don’t call him shit turd in the group chat Me: I would never! Narrator: She totally would
48 of 50 books read in 2025 (don't get too excited, some of those were graphic novels)
Geena Davis being a total badass
This is a sleepy Scamp
A sleepy little Scamp
The legendary troublemaker herself
A meme showing a keyboard through a computer monitor with the text “So long and thanks for all the bananas”
My mood this year was sadness, and my most used emoji was "sob". Sounds about right
Longest absence of 9 days really hits home, because I imagine that was when I was in the hospital with a concussion earlier this year
Matt Garman announcing AWS DevOps Agent at re:Invent
Scamp trying to devour my chicken salad on rye
Surviver Scamp
A Scamp ready to devour whatever is in her way, including me
A Scamp surprised another week has already passed
Some mushrooms being mushrooms
My subscriptions currently include the print version of the Onion, Wired (old sub, 3 years now) and The Nation. Happy with my choices so far.
People worry that not being seen as mindless, uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move in the current environment of enforced conformity within tech, especially as tech leaders are collaborating with the current regime to punish free speech, fire anyone who dissents, and embolden the wealthy tycoons at the top to make ever-more-extreme statements, often at the direct expense of some of their own workers. This is all exacerbated by the awareness that hundreds of thousands of technical staff like engineers have been laid off in recent times, often in an ongoing drip of never-ending layoffs, and very frequently in an unnecessarily dehumanizing and brutal process intended to instill fear in those who remain at the companies afterward. In that kind of context, it's understandable that people might fear telling the truth. But it's important to remember that there are a lot more of us.
A shocked pumpkin with a face mask next to a pumpkin with a dumpster fire for 2020
The only time of year she wears full camo
I am definitely a 10. Though no one said what the upper bound is
Scenes from the no kings protest in Portland, Oregon
Protesters in pajamas have been gathering outside Portland’s ICE building every Sunday morning, having coffee and donuts and generally pointing out how absurd this all is
Peak Scamp
Scamp hates ICE. To be fair, she also hates DEI, but only because she thinks it stands for Dogs Everywhere, Incorporated, and she’s against that
Hell on earth, amirite?
Having a lovely beer outside in Portland
A Scamp will scamp
Typing "Bring back Kimmel" as the reason I'm canceling Disney/Hulu
21yo me in the NYC subway
Q: What could we have done to make you want to keep your subscription? My answer: Stop being evil
Swap out Twitter for Bluesky in my portfolio website
My Rickenbacker 620, aka Ricky my baby, and the newest addition, a Taylor GS Mini in mahogany
The OnlyHumans logo, which is not great because I used my marginal Photoshop skills rather than AI to create it out of the OnlyFans logo
Yes, that red solo cup is full of beer, and yes, my slides were full of puppies
Me: Ok, hear me out. Instead of a dishwasher, we get one of these (Picture of a dope ass Star Wars pinball machine) Husband: It’s not a bad idea Me: Might be wider than 24” though 😕 (my main concern)
An actual modern train, the PKP Pendolino that runs between Warsaw and Krakow
Kiro telling me to go to bed
Session Too Long. Oops
Kiro wants me to use Sonnet 3.7. If I wanted Sonnet 3.7, I'd go back to Q
Kiro says, "Too many requests, please wait before trying again"
My sad and lonely green squares on GitHub
Kiro logs. Like RIGHT THERE
A completed execution and a running execution in Kiro
Your Kiro installation appears to be corrupt. Please reinstall. lol.