Jeroen 
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Kit🔧Kendrick
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#unstable but #not_volatile
Cory Doctorow🎤 These Boots Are Made For Tracking 👢
I asked my niece what she wanted for #Christmas2023 and as is traditional she would like #ImpracticalFootwear. As the #FunAunt it is my job to provide such things.
The conversation that followed proves were related.
@dsri You mentioned you like to hear how people use the Compact Calendar. I use mine as a simple PTO tracker. It helps me avoid burnout and the end-of-year use-it-or-lose-it problem. If I ever see a long span that's too empty, I know I need to schedule some time to decompress. The year at a glance makes a stretch with no rest really stand out and reminds me to use the time when I need it.
ONG I have #grammarly because it does a nice job of catching missing words or typos but the "helpful" suggestions need to [expletive] right off! I said what I said in the tone I meant to use!
Is it bad that I am sitting in my cubicle singing quietly "🎵 I aaaaaam a little ball of stress 🎵 a little ball of stress 🎵 a little ball of stress. 🎵 I aaaaaaam....🎵"
the swagonFunctional programmers get so close to perfection when writing code because they aim to write as little as possible, if they'd just stop writing any at all they'd ascend to a higher plane of existence (the outdoors)
Nate Cull (.social)Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
Mx Aria Stewart@kitkendrick @mekkaokereke And nothing stings more than something carefully avoiding mentioning sexism or transphobia as a factor when it's painfully obvious. It spares us no feeling to just not mention it. In fact, that's usually the opposition's framing: ignoring the harm done. So what we're left with is a media environment full of un-CWed dogwhistles, and CWed antidotes. Plus the careless are still gonna boost the bad news without so much as a call to action.
@kitkendrick @mekkaokereke As someone on the short end of sexism and transphobia, here's where I struggle: "sexism" and "transphobia" as warnings don't actually help me. I don't know if it's _mentioning_ them, _showing_ them, _fighting them_, or _acknowledging them_.
I would love to put aside Yet More News About Transphobic Laws.
But I _adore_ a righteous and angry and artistic engagement with transphobia. Anger and joy mixed together is a powerful antidote: and it has the same topic.