hi I'm YANA, welcome to my stream of consciousness. I try to do coding streams, but most of the time, I follow breadcrumbs dropped by my [rubber duckies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging)

🦆 **what's a duckie?** you! a rubber duckie is something/someone I can explain my code to when I'm stuck; it gets me unstuck. so thank *you* for being here! see [rubber duck debugging](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging) 🦆 **what's a YANA?** that's my semi legal name. it stands for: [Y]ou [A]re [N]ot [A]lone 🦆 **I like this!** you might also like the [recurse center](https://www.recurse.com) :> 🦆 **why [Crystal](https://crystal-lang.org/)?** because its so shiny, duh. compiled with type inferencing on steroids, concurrency like Go, and a compiler that checks for nils. and most importantly: the community 🦆 **socialize!** [discord](https://discord.gg/HHTsuRHYzd) - hangout after steam [twitter](https://twitter.com/Where_Is_X) - stream announcements && thoughts [keybase](https://keybase.io/where_is_x) - super secure DMs