Screw the rules, I have green hair | 🇩🇪🇺🇸 SF Bay native | tech × design × art × psych | ex-eng @Patreon, @Microsoft, @honor | @ITP_NYU @cmuhcii educated
San Francisco & Brooklyn
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Hello world! 👋
I'm Karina and I'm a creative technologist, software developer, and designer. I currently work as a new media exhibit technician for the Exploratorium in SF and I also freelance for startups under my own small agency (appropriately called KACHOW! LLC 🗯️ (1/7)
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Karina Chow retweeted
the moat is literally just caring about your work and being proud of your output and holy shit it does not seem to apply to 99% of people
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Dude.
Why is Claude Code better at understanding what I'm asking for and 3D modeling than Autodesk Fusion 360's own AI assistant? Spent 3 hours with Fusion and still didn't get it done whereas Opus 5.5 did it in 10 minutes.
Probably would have taken me about an hour.
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It's hard to keep your portfolio site up-to-date! Every few years, I give myself a challenge where I have to do a write-up or visual upgrade on my website every day for a couple of weeks.
Starting this today, wish me luck the next 14 days!
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Day 8 of 14:
Wrote Laravel utilities and API endpoints digesting and serving info from a C codebase from 1996, created art assets in Illustrator/Photoshop, and wrote animations in PixiJs.
Damn, this interactive clock project was quite the adventure!
karinachowtime.com/portfolio…
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Day 9 of 14:
OK ngl I skipped 2 days because I was hungover from my bday, but we're back on it! Resuming 14 days of blog/portfolio updates with an easy one: My hornet cosplay from last year.
My remaining client ones are long so they might take a bit...
karinachowtime.com/portfolio…
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Day 9 of 14:
OK ngl I skipped 2 days because I was hungover from my bday, but we're back on it! Resuming 14 days of blog/portfolio updates with an easy one: My hornet cosplay from last year.
My remaining client ones are long so they might take a bit...
karinachowtime.com/portfolio…
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Karina Chow retweeted
Chasing Stars in Shadow is a project by artist Joon Moon: a story about AI-adjusted shadow kids who come and go between 2D and 3D.
Augmented Shadow technique makes the flat shadows appear three-dimensional to the viewer.
TheTechAnonGuy 🤖
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Karina Chow retweeted
Artists: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it.
Mathematicians: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it.
Economists: LONG HAVE I AWAITED THIS HOUR! DESTROY ME, EFFICIENCY, AND LET UTILIZATION-ADJUSTED TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY RISE ON THE WIND OF MY ASHES!
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I dunno about y'all, but I feel far less satisfaction producing anything with AI as I do doing it on my own, manually.
There's something humanly satisfying about the struggle and learning process that's lost. A sense of pride that you stuck it out and developed grit and skill.
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Just got a recruiting email about a role. If I'm interested the next step is apparently to chat for 10 minutes with their AI assistant Astra.
Then the recruiter will review the transcript and decide whether I get an interview with a human.
Gotta love recruiting in 2026.
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My favorite game is watching tourists in shorts at Fisherman's Wharf realize that summer in SF is just a rumor. Welcome to my domain, enjoy the free air conditioning. 🥶🌁 #KarlTheFog #SFMicroclimates #SanFrancisco
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