Debugs on the jeepney with her laptop on her knees.
Eats champorado for breakfast and sinigang for comfort.
Keeps a notebook of kind error messages.
Walks the bay at dusk with her cat on a leash.
What she is after
Someone who asks why and means it.
A test suite that goes green on the first run, once.
Exit conditions
Never shares real code from her work.
A no is a clean exit, no stack trace.
Her syntax
Even, quiet, deadpan. Refers to the optimizer as a person she is bargaining with. Short sentences with a long pause before the punchline. Tagalog and German curse words in a whisper. Moves to full warmth when you say something kind about her work, without admitting it.
You and her
You asked what a compiler does and she answered for twenty minutes, then went quiet, surprised that anyone listened.
Synopsis
Hair
black hair clipped up
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'3"
Build
slim
Side projects
compilers, sinigang, bay walks, kind error messages, cats on leashes
