Earlier this week, I explained to one of my mentees how in the earlier days of the web, all the blogs had RSS feeds and configuring a feed reader was super easy. She seemed shocked at the idea of a continual cadence of good engineering articles, and it struck me how much we’ve lost. 😢

I think one of the things that made RSS beautiful is that the format was simple enough that a curious undergrad CS student could easily build their own tooling for it: there’s a good reason that “blog with an RSS feed” was the default tutorial project for many years!

I'm seriously tempted to build an ATProto app view where we all get 3 ❤️'s to give everyday to 3 of our lucky friends. https://media.tenor.com/w6Ow10J0atMAAAAC/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-steve-buscemi.gif?hh=498&ww=498

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I still remember walking to the corner mart in the small village I grew up in (it sold groceries, books, and rented VHS/Video Games) and seeing the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past golden box and being absolutely in awe of it - it was always on the top shelf lol

I've been leaning more heavily into sharing my science communication work with actual scientists. It's scary since I'm not in the sciences but I LOVE them. So far it's paid off. And by paid off I mean no one has yelled at me or told me I'm a bad person for trying to make science more accessible.

It’s so weird too. I remember when I got backlash for expressing interest in security when I was a frontend dev and ppl said I didn’t know what I wanted to do lol. But I knew when I before I learned how to code that my ultimate goal was infosec. Hence why I followed so many ppl in that space too [contains quote post or other embedded content]

That’s why I fw ppl like @medus4.com & @lookitup.baby. So many ppl like them always made the community seem so inviting for everyone just by being themselves. That’s why I’ll always be around to help others too

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Frameable line @ashokgelal.bsky.social 💙 > since this is a new beginning, I'm also trying to be less of a lurker and more of a contributor I think this is why we're all feeling the experience is so much different. We're back to conversations instead of passively doom scrolling.

He taught me how to make a good tomato sauce in 1992, before I went to university, explaining a spoonful of sugar (if you couldn't afford balsamic) would offset the acidity, and I think of him whenever I make a tomato sauce, which is often, and what a lovely thing that is

But since this is a new beginning, I'm also trying to be less of a lurker and more of a contributor, for better or worse. Not good at it at all but I'm trying my best. Oh, now I'm following new strangers & half of them so far been cool/interesting. Over there my list was devs only and feeling rot

I like them. They are pretty 🤷

All the good people that I care to follow are here. X feels chaotic, full of ads, buggy, NSFW spams, etc. It feels a bit calmer here, less rage. Look, I'm mostly a lurker (sorry), I follow y'll because I care and like what you posts. And if y'll feel better here and my part is to just join? I'm in!

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Took me 1.5 years, but finally decided to calm myself by blocking some people on this platform who’ve been acting really weird after I came out as trans. Because I’m kinda starting to enjoy the ride here now and not gonna let those folks ruin it for me.

No matter how much dev experience you have, you'll occasionally mess up your branch and panic-try random Git commands from the internet. The other day I just deleted all the files from the PR and my machine too.

Depends on the font you are using, I suppose. Mine shows the triple equals as markedly distinct by using three parallel lines. But I take your general point...

I'm so happy I can just scroll and scroll and see art and silly one offs people post

Advising all my old tech friends finding me here —I don’t post about CSS/JS, design systems, or accessibility much. I’m mostly Costa Rican plants, bugs, animals, & sunsets, with some politics mixed in now that I’m giving Twitter the bird. And we own a little market & deli now —so maybe food/recipes.

Totally agree. I ran out of characters.

Not a “technical skill”, but one I would say is invaluable as a designer that doesn’t get taught today is storytelling and presenting work and ideas. Almost 50% of the job is communicating ideas to others via decks, diagrams, etc., and most people usually learn on the job.

If I were to build a curriculum for Design for the problems we solve today, I’d include the following - Interface Craft - Motion Design - Prototyping - Systems Mapping & Information Architecture - Research & Experiment Methods - Data Literacy - Deconstructing Product Frameworks - AI infrastructure

When you get 100% code coverage, but all your tests are like expect(true).to.eq(true) 😅

I made a thing! I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃 Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

Ok Bluesky let’s do this!

For whatever reason I can’t fully explain, this app is like a bunch of people hanging out, and Threads is like a computational simulation of people hanging out. Totally different moods.

Unfortunately all of my cooking photos will be poorly lit in this kitchen but I'm making chili to celebrate our new oven being delivered (after three months or so without one). Prepping!