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Principal Frontend Engineer at Square, formerly Etsy. Fairy Gitmother at ohshitgit.com. Thoughts are mine not my employer’s #GNUTerryPratchett
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Ms Rachel said actually no I will not shut up

I'm not an American, but it's kind of strange seeing the stories about Elon Musk showing up to a press conference with President Trump at the White House with a black eye and remembering the news stories about President Obama wearing a tan suit.

Better headline: Silicon Valley know-it-all shows up to "fix" the VA; realizes the VA is actually fine, know-it-all doesn't really know anything and gets "doge'd" by even bigger idiots. techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/f...

This! LLMs are not systems thinkers, the humans who are systems thinkers are more valuable than ever

Did you know your insurance company can just say "nah not feeling it" even if your doctor thinks you need urgent tests? Probably you did. Anyway. Ha. 20% off sale, if you want some rainbow shit can we interest you in some rainbow shit? 💓 thebrokencircle.etsy.com

Me, logging on to work after the long weekend

Can I go to Switzerland, like, now? Pretty please?

"If I’m going to tell you more about autism awareness, then we’ll need a quiet place. I can’t draw a straight line through a story to save my life, and neither can anyone in my family, which is how I grew up feeling safe. Shame mostly existed out there. Inside, we were us."

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

The disdain for managers in tech right now is so ridiculous. It's like all the dudes who became managers because they wanted to be able to do whatever they felt like for any reason are now trying to make armies of rockstar ninja 10x shitty coworker engineers as copies of themselves.

Everyone involved in these ICE abductions, from the president on down to the officers, needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Until they are, there is no hope of democracy in the US.

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

For a lot of people the best thing they can do in the short term to protect themselves from long term damage from fascism and authoritarianism is log off and find human interaction if you can in the real world. You do not need to be constantly bathed in the darkness and anger of the internet.

hiya @danabra.mov what ever happened to parts 2 & 3 of this excellent deep dive? github.com/reactwg/serv... Would love to read them if they (or something similar) exists somewhere else, tyty!

its so funny how economists will be like noooo its not fair china keeps reinvesting its wealth back into its economies instead of giving it all to like 20 guys, thats cheating 😭

The web platform has been missing an imperative way to let users of assistive technology know that something has changed on the page, when no DOM changes occurred. The Aria Notify API aims to bridge that gap. Try it out and let us know what you think!

TLDR; because the Globe will never just come out and say it - private equity is destroying our healthcare and must be stopped before more innocent people die.

Why would anyone expect different from a company named after crystal balls in Lord of the Rings were meant for enlightenment and coordination, but became tools of misinformation and fear. It’s like working for a company named Horcruxes and Necronomicons then complaining about their ethics.

Whoa this is fantastic! Thorough classification & documentation of the most common design system components. Instant bookmark!

Very cool when people randomly reach out to say they are enjoying something you wrote. Don't be afraid to tell people you enjoy their work, I promise, we don't know. We hope.

The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

If yall know anyone in Buffalo make sure they follow @ufw.bsky.social on their preferred social network, PUT THEM ON NOTIFICATIONS in case they call another rally. This turnout is solid for 2 hours notice, but I know we can do better.

Yep. pluralistic.net/2025/04/25/s...

I think one big reason these tech bros love ChatGPT is because it constantly kisses your ass. When you correct its obvious mistakes it will say "oh yeah, good eye buddy sorry about that." It will basically never challenge your ideas or tell you you're being a dumbass.

If you think fertilized eggs have rights but 2-year-old US citizens with cancer don’t, stop pretending your concerns are “the children.”

In the past year, median JavaScript weight has increased by 10% – to almost 650KB across 22 scripts per page! That's a lot of potential for hurting the speed of your pages. Click through to make sure you're following these best practices for optimizing JS.

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

i often see things that make me say "this is the most Boston thing I have ever seen in my life" but i think this one might have swept them all