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I help people build the web better. I love pirates, puppies, and Pixar movies. ADHD AF. he/him https://gomakethings.com
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For what its worth, I'm in the most "safe" group of demographics: straight, cis, abled, and white. It's still none of a prospective employer's fucking business. I don't answer out of solidarity. ✊

I’m loath to share interviews with myself, but I really had a wonderful time sitting down with Ellen McGirt over at @designobserver.com. We spoke about my (too short) time at 18F, about responsive design turning 15, and about the urgent need for collective action — and, yes, unions — in tech.

I've seen SO MANY employer websites now asking if you're... - Gay - Trans - Disabled - Nonwhite I am NOT answering those. In the current political environment, they should NOT be asking that shit.

⚓️ New Article: The cluster layout with modern CSS

If anyone is hiring, I'm still looking for my next thing. Senior Frontend/Fullstack Developer. Skilled at HTML/CSS/JavaScript, React, UI/UX, A11Y, web performance, design systems, Web Components, and more. I'd love to work with you! gomakethings.com/resume

Long covid is now the most common chronic health problem in children, even surpassing asthma.

If anyone is hiring, I'm still looking for my next thing. Senior Frontend/Fullstack Developer. Skilled at HTML/CSS/JavaScript, React, UI/UX, A11Y, web performance, design systems, Web Components, and more. I'd love to work with you! gomakethings.com/resume

Tell me again how Doechii is "an industry plant." You can really imagine someone like Ice Spice having this conversation?

Anybody here works at Etsy & would consider giving a referral? Please share, this could be really helpful after being laid off <3

Always relevant. Even more so this week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZ5... RIP Nip

Also, our very own co-founder @tinavasquez.bsky.social has written this brilliant op-ed for @prismreports.org about the ICE raids in LA, and how communities are rising up to defend themselves. The Flytrap says FUCK ICE, to be absolutely clear. prismreports.org/2025/06/09/l...

As someone who *still* wears an N95 to protect my high-risk child from airborne viruses, I saw this coming weeks ago.

⚓️ New Article: 4 common layouts made easy with modern CSS

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I'm a believer in nonviolent resistance for moral reasons, and I think it can be incredibly powerful when well-planned and sustained, but don't tell me violence doesn't work. The people successfully rolling back my rights were sending bomb threats to children's hospitals.

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

There are so many scientific studies & articles warning about how dangerous COVID still is - I've yet to see a single one to support the conclusion that masks are unnecessary, or that there's no difference between the COVID Competent vs Mask Deniers in long term health.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

Boston, we need to step up.

⚓️ New Article: Rules, not rulers

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

THIS. Also, to just be horrified at the idea of the “Department of Homeland Security”. I literally said the word “Nazis” at the time. People born this century, there didn’t used to be a Department of Homeland Security.

⚓️ New Article: Ants and anarchy

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

⚓️ New Article: A Web Component for transforming headings into an accordion

Love HTML? Love CSS? Love Web Components? I'm launching a thing soon! kelpui.com

As I’ve gotten older, one of the things that’s become painfully obvious to me is that men are just as emotional as women, but seem to have a greatly reduced capacity for actually regulating it. And their emotions often only come in one flavor: anger. It’s not biological. It’s culturally ingrained.