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mastodon 4.7.3Developer, professor, CSS Working Group invited expert, into design systems & web components, open source junkie, and proud AuDHD human. What will my next special interest be?
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Joined November 06, 2022
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Never been loved the way my children love me. What a wonderful, precious gift. ❤️
It's not official yet but there's a strong likelihood I will be teaching 2 courses at my alma mater, Meredith College, this semester! Web programming with databases and an intro to Python. Being a professor has been on my bucket list since before I can remember. 🫶🤞
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I want to mention that by continuing to fill out self-identification forms honestly, I am adding myself to the trackable data showing that people with disabilities are out there applying, trying to get hired -- that we're not sitting at home living off the government. Most of us don't even qualify for government support and even if we did, we'd rather work.
New branding? Who dat? The Allons-y Studio site got a full refresh yesterday, complete with new branding, clearer messaging, and more emphasis on design systems, web components, and accessibility.
Poke around: https://allons-y.studio/
Coming soon: a deep-dive into how web components are implemented in Gecko; custom elements and shadow DOM from the engine's side of the glass.
Better wear your waterproof mascara to The Odyssey. Just sayin.
Y’all big updates to one of my PostCSS plugins! postcss-custom-prop-sorting v4.0.0 is out (https://github.com/castastrophe/postcss-custom-prop-sorting/releases/tag/v4.0.0).
Sort your custom properties by dependency order, so –-color-base always lands before anything that var()s off it. New in v4:
• Warns on circular dependencies
• Traces the full var() fallback chain
• Ships with type declarations
• 100% ESM
Looking into wallpaper lately as the new home will be ready to move into soon and I've come across the yoga banana man. I am desperately brainstorming legitimate uses... ❤️🍌🧘♂️
Feeling way more existential than a Wednesday calls for. Existentialism is for weekends. Don't try to tell that to my brain though. Sigh. 😮💨
The first time I reached for imagemagick to help resolve a business need was in 2015. Still reaching for it over 10 years later! That's tooling goals right there. ✨
Curious what is the experience of others in #getfedihired:
I am a well-qualified engineer with a good reputation in several communities, a public speaker, leader at enterprise-level companies. I am also openly AuDHD.
None of my applications since January are getting through to recruiters (as far as I can tell). Has anyone else noticed this change? I had several interviews last year but everything went silent recently. (1/2)
The entire day today -- from the second he woke up to when he zonked out tonight -- my youngest was absolutely enraged that I didn't have another child after him. Parenting fail. 😂
All hail the queen of laundry! 😮💨👑
My six-year-old has started literally pebbling me--bringing me pretty stones to show he cares. ❤️😭
Does anyone else get a dopamine spike when they hear a punk cover of a pop song? Honestly, a punk cover of almost any genre gets me on my feet.
Anyone else sit in the parking lot for a bit after drop-off? I need transition time from hurry-hurry kids to work brain. 🚙⏰🧠
My god, I don't expect my furniture to resist a knife attack. Also, love that AI interpreted "wear-resistant" to mean violence and (theoretically,) someone saw this and went, "hell yeah, that goes in the ad!"
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I didn't even know I wanted this but now I really do! Basic filtering and complex data styling unlocked without JS!
New GitHub landing page for Allons-y Studio: https://github.com/allonsy-studio
Check out what we offer and what open source projects we're building!
Oo some possible shorthands being proposed for defining custom properties: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7523
What I love about this thread is the innovative and creative suggestions on how to improve the usage of this feature; a feature that is really quite new itself! Keep engaging friends. Happy Friday!
I'm not entirely sure I play video games right.
Next I'll be testing to see if I can get Claude to correctly identify sprite images in a backpack and create collection lists consistently...will open source the skill if it works with any amount of regularity.
😂 oh no. I read a post by a young autistic person I follow on instagram and was proud of him as if he's my son. When did I stop being "me too friend" and become "yes my sweet baby child you are amazing"?! 💜
haha listening to folks talk about not wanting to code review all the AI code because it's a lot reminds me a little of the response when I'd hyperfocus code large updates. 🤣
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is there's any future where AI models become publicly-owned infrastructure? where the tools that shape information are owned by the commons instead of consolidating power in so few places?
because if that's even possible, it's builders like us who make it, isn't it? (2/2)
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The big discussion point on this still to be worked out is whether it will have an increased specificity. Weigh in if you have thought!
The algorithm has lost all faith in me (or humanity in general, maybe?).
Working on a blog post about ways that AI tools have been significantly helpful for neurospicy folks. Any experiences y'all want to share?
Digging back into my old MySQL knowledge lately and looking for easily searchable MySQL docs and best practice guidance. Send me your favorite resources!
Ever wanted just a quick reminder of what scripts are available to run in a yarn project? Forget the name of a script or mistype it and just want a refresher? Allow me to introduce you to:
`yarn run`