Jess Rose

@jessie
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Tired but doting computer auntie. Does that free online bootcamp and those tech for good jobs lists you like.
My websitehttps://jessica.tech
Co-foundedhttp://badwebsite.club/
Hyperfocusing onHistory of the silk road
Learning nowIndonesian

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jessie/116425942128982509

This turned out to need a minor specialist surgery and 2 nights in the hospital.

Endless gratitude NHS for fixing my hand without bankrupting me.

Still gonna pet cats. Probably not this same cat, though.

The optometrist asks how many hours a day you look at screens now?

When did this become a thing? I was not prepared for the self reflection this question prompted.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jessie/116425942128982509

Related fun(?) facts:

Apparently even extremely minor cat bites are infection prone.

I have a weirdly specific fear of hand/finger damage.

The NHS has a reassuringly terrifyingly thorough process for any hand injuries.

I won't be taking any questions on this, but I have never wanted to place an object in my mouth more than this 10th century inkwell.

https://www.tumblr.com/memories-of-ancients/813973465925304320/banded-agate-inkwell-middle-east-10th?source=share

Reading a preprint chapter on neuroscience and learning looking at how digital memory offloading and distractions impact learning processes and it's got me pledging unkeepable screentime resolutions like it's Jan 1st.

Actually hopeful about a[n upcoming, not yet public] tech project and love how this feels.

I haven't been unreservedly hopeful about anything in a while and this is nice.

Weird, but nice.

First pottery class and I have already been injured in the most on-brand way possible.

Bitten by the shop cat after being lured in by his v convincing cuddling + purring performance.

One week till the kickoff party for our free web development bootcamp.

If you want to learn HTML, CSS, accessibility and design skills @hola_soy_milk, @rivea0 and I would love to have a silly little time learning with you

📍Free 10 week online program
📍No signup, tracking or upsells
📍Chill, creative, friendly vibes

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/bad-website-club-bootcamp-based-on-freecodecamp-rwd-cert/

The Bad Website Club is Running a Free Responsive Web Design Bootcamp Based on freeCodeCamp

Hi everyone! We (Jess, Carmen, and Eda) are excited to announce the next installation of our free and online bootcamp. We support learners as they work their way through the freeCodeCamp Responsive We

freeCodeCamp.org

Shoutout to https://delphi.tools who had a Shavian translator in their cool indy browser tools that nerd sniped me so hard it cost me a whole afternoon

https://delphi.tools/tools/shavian-transliterator

delphitools

A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. No logins, no registration, no data collection.

Just learned that George Bernard Shaw's will included funds and instructions commissioning a phonetic alphabet to improve on how bad English spelling in Latin characters sucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

Shavian alphabet - Wikipedia