From bb18ad1b0ad160969c33fbce5595081a504b0f86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cursor Agent Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:54:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Revise About page Zappos transition and layoff narrative Co-authored-by: Amanda Nelson --- src/app/about/page.tsx | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/app/about/page.tsx b/src/app/about/page.tsx index d8a5a62..41ce0c9 100644 --- a/src/app/about/page.tsx +++ b/src/app/about/page.tsx @@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ export default function AboutPage() { I'd been living with fibromyalgia since 2016 and chronic migraines since the same year. In 2018 I was bedbound for nine months. My body had been telling me something for years. I was only beginning to learn how to listen.

- Being a new software engineer while also being a newly-diagnosed neurodivergent person with a chronic illness, no direct manager, and no roadmap — that's not a gap year story. That's just what it was. Hard. Clarifying. Mine. + Being a new software engineer while also being a newly-diagnosed neurodivergent person with a chronic illness in a brand-new corporate environment at Zappos, during its post-holacracy transition into full Amazon ownership, wasn't a gap-year story. That's just what it was. Hard. Clarifying. Mine. +

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+ Then I was laid off in January 2023. That moment hurt, and it also forced a reckoning: I could see how much people-pleasing had shaped the way I worked, while emotional sustainability was treated as optional. That layoff became the turning point that pushed me into the deep end of building what Pythoness Programmer is becoming.

What helped wasn't a system. It was people. A TikTok community of late-identified and lifelong neurodivergent adults who were naming patterns I'd been carrying alone. Marginalized voices who had been talking for years about how our systems — tech systems, productivity systems, social systems — were built to serve a particular kind of brain and body, and how everyone else was just expected to adapt. From a6ec097af913d834c19c5fcdb8b8766aa815f285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cursor Agent Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:56:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update footer legal copy and add Events link Co-authored-by: Amanda Nelson --- src/components/Footer.tsx | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/components/Footer.tsx b/src/components/Footer.tsx index 00e8e65..5a609e6 100644 --- a/src/components/Footer.tsx +++ b/src/components/Footer.tsx @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ export default function Footer() {

@@ -79,7 +80,6 @@ export default function Footer() {