Kayla McArthur

@kayla.is

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Sr. Eng Manager for Mobile Release Infra @ Google Engineering, Security, and Healthy Teams Based in 🇮🇪 Approximate knowledge of a lot of Apple eng stuff Manic pixie nightmare girl Opinions my own kayla.is

Street art mural of Hank Hill and Boomhauer from King Of The Hill
A meme, text label of "born too late for AI:" with an illustration of an early perceptron network, text label below of "born too early for AI:" featuring pictures of Neuromancer and Altered Carbon book covers about high tech AI futures, text label below of "born just in time for AI:" with a gemini-cli instance in my terminal
A webpage with a title Attentive, a nav bar is on the left side, it has many navigation items includes Overview (selected), memories, daily list, check lists, dopamine, guidance, reminders, goals, self improvement, inspiration, and pomodoro. The right panel has a lot of little widgets, most notably a memory widget showing no memory, a daily list widget showing progress on a list (there is no progress), check lists panel showing no checklists, dopamine showing a graph of how many times you clicked into a dopamine thing per day (like a playlist), goals (two goals are there), self improvement (a few things are active), and an inspirational quote + photo I took.
A progress dialog for a message import from discord into Synapse. A heading says Phase 2: filtering messages. It shows 1058445 messages total, importing 1034621, skipping 23824, 12995 reactions to create, and 3410 attachments to upload. Below there is a Phase 3: Uploading 3410 attachments dialog, tt displays a progress bar showing 2360/3410 uploaded so far.
Aurora light up night sky with trees in foreground
A ground insulating element and other hiking gear aside s trail near the summit of diamond hill overlooking countryside at sunrise
My laptop perched precariously near the sea on a hike on the coast of Malta, overlooking the ocean and some beautiful cliffs. My screen has a terminal window with nothing in it, nothing on the desktop, and lots of apps I run, but otherwise nothing super interesting.
A black background with a blue flame fractal that resembles a crystal shape
A screenshot of an application. It has a panel of lists with sections titled daily and on demand. Daily has lists like Wakeup, Morning, Day, Evening, and Sleep. On demand has lots like RSD, Bored, Stressed, etc. At the bottom is a navigation bar for lists, goals, hobbies, and memories.
A selection of vegetables including squash, mint, a type of lettuce, and beans on a wooden counter.
A warning sign along a hiking trail that has been photoshopped - it says "DO NOT APPROACH TURBINES, they are easily frightened and may abandon their young"
A number of large wind turbines in western Ireland as viewed from a nearby hiking trail
I stand near the peak of a mountain overlooking the land below which includes several lakes, a few hills, and a small inlet off of the northern Atlantic Ocean.
A wall in SFO airport with writing “Welcome To Harvey Milk Terminal 1”
Meme of man standing in front of a conveyor belt with iOS logos coming out of a machine and one android logo just came out. The machine has an apple and swift logo on it and the man is saying “I guess we doin multiplat now”
Screenshot of App Store Connect while editing a bundle ID, Coretelephony is misspelled as Coretelepony
A cat hiding under a blanket with only their face visible.
A path through a forest with many yellow flowers on either side.
A sign that says “Signs are not permitted in this area”
View from the summit of Sugarloaf in Ireland looking out towards Dublin and the coast
Photo from atop Killiney Hill showing the morning sun over the Irish coast
A photograph of Lower Lough Bray - a lake between hills in Ireland
A lone tree emerges from a lake between two mountains just after sunset.
Sunset over the mountains south of Dublin - as viewed from the Dublin area.
Painted art on a wall in a park - art is the word “hope” in stylised cursive.
Still from the victory anthem in “Bajirao Mastani” with a man standing triumphantly while others cheer.
Shelf of “American Style” pancake flour in an Irish grocery
Self serve hard liquor at YVR airport lounge
Flame fractal with spirals coming up from a bed, giving the vague image of a plant with stems that have yet to flower.
A sign with a half dozen arrows pointing in every direction
Flame fractal in the shape of a water droplet about to fall off of a leaf.
A duck poster in an airport checking you out from a dozen yards away.
Crater of Mt St Helens as viewed from the summit