Sophie Koonin

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Wicked Witch of the Web 🕸️ Web Engineering Lead at Monzo 🚀 Web1 enthusiast and personal website cheerleader 🚧 Husband, father, dasharez0ne follower 💀
Websitehttps://localghost.dev
Pronounsshe/her
Favourite cheeseRibblesdale Blue
Sophie KooninDec 14, 2022
Okay the social.lol instance has the catjam emoji, that’s it, I’m moving
Sophie KooninDec 14, 2022
I’m at a Lord of the Rings exhibition inside an old church and it’s honestly sending me, this is so ridiculous
Sophie KooninDec 14, 2022
A 4,500 year old megalithic burial site in Antequera 🤓
Sophie KooninDec 12, 2022
Being a conference speaker is so glamorous! Check out the view from this hotel bar 🌴
Sophie KooninDec 12, 2022
wakest likes your bugs ⁂Dec 12, 2022
https://OMG.LOL by @adam is a collection of little services like a custom about page and a paste bin and they just added a mastodon server and they charge $5 a year to access the whole suite
omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you

Treat yourself to an awesome web address, a devastatingly gorgeous profile page, a stellar email address, and tons more

Sophie KooninDec 11, 2022
The universe does not want me to make it to this conference this week 😬 first train strikes so I booked a hotel at the airport, and now snow threatening to cancel trains tomorrow as well 😱
Sophie KooninDec 11, 2022
Large Heydon ColliderDec 11, 2022
The reason people who hate CSS simultaneously don't think it is a programming language is because they never moved past the piecemeal "add color to thing, add height to other thing" approach. When you start dealing in rules/constraints, forging *algorithms* that respond to contexts... then you are really writing CSS. And really programming.
Sophie KooninDec 11, 2022
Max BöckDec 9, 2022

One reason tailwind feels awkward for many senior developers is that it's an imperative way to write a declarative language.

If you're used to working "with the grain of the web", that clashes with the mental model you have for CSS.

@adactio , as usual, says it best: https://adactio.com/journal/18982

Declarative design

Defining the inputs instead of trying to control the outputs.

Sophie KooninDec 10, 2022
My love language is people telling me they like my cooking
Sophie KooninDec 9, 2022
Dave 🧱 Dec 9, 2022
Finally got round to watching this talk from @type_error
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGYm9VdfJ8s
Really recommend watching this to see where we’ve come from, where we've ended up, and where we are heading on the web with our content
4. Sophie Koonin / This Talk is Under Construction / ffconf 2022

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