Brittany Ellich

@brittanyellich.com

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Software engineer @bsky.app exploring the Atmosphere Topics: accessibility, refactoring, AI & career growth Podcast: @overcommitted.dev Newsletter: balancedengineer.com Website: brittanyellich.com ATProto Site: opensocial.community #pdx #atproto

A burnt orange ball of yarn and half-finished crochet project in front of a bunch of kids toys
I should buy a boat cat saying "I should buy a loom"
Me wearing a business goose sweater in front of some geese
A burger wrapped in paper with cheese draped over the edges of the bun
A view of a crocheted Sylveon Pokemon
The virtual community by Howard Rheingold, personal connections in the digital age by Nancy Bay, and building successful online communities by Robert Kraut and Paul Resnick
Devin chatting in front of a lectern at the CodeTV studio
A picture of a page in a book about community with some text highlighted. The book is Building Successful Online Communities
Me on a stage in front of a lectern with a remote in my hand, hand gesturing
Burnt orange yarn
An electronic drumset
A screaming possum shirt on a red shirt
A playlist called "Focus". It has 2 songs, one is "The breaking of the Fellowship" from Lord of the Rings, the other is Fly by Meadowlark. They're added over a month apart on this playlist.
Mystery mutual showing I got it in 2 guesses. First hint was "they enjoy playing narrative-driven games like Life is Strange and Firewatch"
Brittany, Robbie, Adam, Michael, Alex, and Nyah holding whiskey glasses
Will, Francesco, Roxy, and I at the photobooth, with Fran being a grump
Graham on stage at the lectern
Erik Hanchett at the Lectern at CascadiaJS
Adam chatting at the podium of CascadiaJS
A bright blue and a bright orange crocheted sweater. The blue one is a bit larger than the orange one.
Aspiration chart from The Sims 4. Includes Athletic, Creativity, Deviance, Family, Food, Fortune, Knowledge, Love, Nature, and Popularity.
Disappointed guy at a game
Milk alignment chart Lawful good: oat milk (least environmental impact milk alternative) Lawful neutral: almond milk (pretty good, more env impact) Lawful evil: rice milk (yucky) Neutral good: nonfat milk True neutral: 2% milk Evil neutral: whole milk Chaotic good: strawberry milk (yum) Chaotic neutral: chocolate milk Chaotic evil: raw milk (most likely to make you sick)
A hand crocheted beige colored sweater
A family photo of all the builders and advisors
This is my "it worked and I'm just as surprised as you" face
Me, Bryn, Dame, Jared, Bailey, and Zeu
A fluffy blue heeler wearing a hat
The ceremonial cutting of the log for each Timbers goal.
The Stream Theatre at rpg.actor
Graham presenting to the room
Justin Timberlake singing "It's gonna be May"
Where do you draw the line PETA meme
A photo of me doing a talk at Google Cloud Next with a slide that says "Automating your workflow with GitHub Actions"
Atmosphere community in opensocial.community with 27 members listed!
A copy of A Brief History of Intelligence over the PDX airport carpet
The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI book
Born to garden, forced to software engineer meme, with a ring wraith or something, idk, riding a pretty cool looking black dragon
A crocheted green, brown, and yellow turtle shaped pokémon stuffy, made of yarn, felt, love, and many, many mistakes.
A screenshot of open social open to the content page
Attie.ai feed for nerdy fiber arts, showing a post from me about Pokemon crochet
Pokemon crochet 2 book with cute Pokemon on the cover
A large plate of deviled eggs with a disproportionate amount of paprika on each egg
A text exchange showing a positive covid test and text between two people. 1. Welp 2. I almost crashed my truck when I saw this... Didn't get a real good look at first, all I saw was a white stick with 2 pink lines and the word "whelp" 1. Lmao sorry 2. Super glad it's just covid
A white woman wearing a red, yellow, and white sweater with a goose in a top hat. She is wearing sunglasses and smiling on a sunny patio.
Dan at a podium with a microphone in front of the Atmosphere Conf 2026 banners
Amber Case at the podium wearing a colorful dress, holding a microphone, in front of the Atmosphere Conf Vancouver 2026 signs
Zeu on stage at Atmosphereconf, holding a microphone and looking generally super awesome
A slide shown on the Atmosphereconf npmx presentation showing npmx maintainers with 230 profile photos
Patak.cat (not actually a cat) on the Atmosphereconf stage
I got my ass goose verified
Boris introducing everyone at Atmosphereconf
The 5 stages of preparing for a conference talk: Denial, Procrastination, Panic, Bargaining, Acceptance, with some poorly drawn cartoons for each one.
A book called Salt: A World History
A very small crocheted hat that fits in my palm
Craig chatting with Bethany and I
A video of the highlights of attending the Rose City Yarn Crawl
A gray crocheted beanie