⧉ sara joy I 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇸🇪

I start my new job today 🎉

Over the course of 2022 I've been working really hard on getting up to speed with modern web development and whoo boy, it's different to the noughties, when I was most active as a hobbyist in coding websites!

So it's been a big old slog, but I made it. Here's to having some more focus and joy in my working life from now on :)

#frontend #web #development #excitascared

Ok Ladies and Jellyspoons, I'm about to migrate to @sarajw@fosstodon.org - wish me luck, and I'll see you on the other side :)

Day 2 at the new job. I like the people. Still in setup mode. Going to slowly start making my desk more homely :)

@swansinflight@mastodon.nz Oop. Yeah, that's food for thought.

The bird site has actually been instrumental in helping me turn myself around career-wise, and it's been pivotal for my self confidence - so... yes my new job title is there because I'm proud of the work I've done to get where I am.

That never used to be the case, though. I never used to identify myself by how I made a living, rather by what I did for fun in my free time. Hm.

@swansinflight@mastodon.nz @heyrochelle@cloudisland.nz heeee thanks for the thoughtful reply :)

No, you won't stop me, but it was still food for thought.

My usage over there was/is very very geared towards my learning and attempts at networking with as many movers and shakers in the industry as I could. I am still very much me and a lot of it was conversation, jokes and friendly stuff because being one sided is boooooring!

But I still feel like I have a networking agenda in mind 🤔

How can we make a site/app's 'delight factor' (often only visual) more accessible?

More entertaining prose/copy? Music(!)? Animations that aren't only scroll linked?

What other ways are there to set a sort of ambience of a site that isn't entwined with the majority/default access type?

#accessibility #a11y #frontend