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sarajw

@sarajw@front-end.social

Fresh front-end dev and techy generalist, mum of 2, euro-mongrel (🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇸🇪), lapsed swing dancer & DJ, erstwhile tall ship and dingy sailor, crocheter, lefty.

Work with :react:, but ❤️ vanilla :html5: :css3: :javascript: (particularly ✨CSS✨ 🥰)

Cis het - she/her, supporting :BLM: :a11y: 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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My home from is of course going to end up delayed. Might be stuck in Osnabrück for a while! Anyone else?

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Just watching some youtubes on my trip home and as always I get a weird twitchy swipy feeling when I watch Last Week Tonight.

I wish those few lights by John Oliver's elbow would go away! They remind me how much I am conditioned by common web patterns 😬

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Huh. I looked out of the window of my train and saw what looked like an African savannah. Then I watched more landscape pass by, and it started to look like a little the sandy pine forests you get near sandy beaches in Scandinavia. I went to Google maps to see if we were by the coast, and nope.

Apparently it was Het Kootwijkerzand. In inland desert reserve in the Netherlands. TIL.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/wDzYeEdgZgin2W2U9

sarajw,
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@Anneke yes! Will do, if I don't fall asleep. We've just left Deventer.

sarajw,
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@Anneke waving!!

sarajw,
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@Anneke thank you!

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“Under a capitalist society, we’re told to be continuously striving to better ourself, to be in state of productive and improvement.

When an outward performance of beauty is so tied up with a sense of value, self-worth, and admiration, it’s easier to sell the tools of beauty.”

https://culturevulture.substack.com/p/yes-pretty-is-a-privilege

sarajw,
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@fox capitalism and beauty norms are often explicitly connected - for decades it was within dress codes in city jobs that women should wear skirt suits, high heels, makeup.

That's a tax on time, comfort and walking ability compared with the male equivalent (yes some men felt restricted by neck ties, but 🤷).

I've always been sort of cute but also a bit fat - in some ways it may have worked against me, but I now choose to view it as a built in filter against toxic people and environments.

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From years of being bored, unsatisfied, or struggling in various jobs and industries, I finally feel like I have come home.

I'm so happy to join an industry with such brilliant, interesting, and gloriously nerdy people - I mean this in the best possible way!

I have attended both Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf and CSS Day 2024 and, wow. Huge thank yous to the organisers, speakers, and to the many warm and funny fellow attendees I had the joy to socialise with.

This is my church.

#BTConf #CSSDay

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@Anneke same to you 🥰

sarajw,
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@robinwhittleton next year!

Oh wait someone (was it @SaraSoueidan or another speaker?) showcased the skip links on the IKEA site and praised them. I thought of you :)

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Yaaaay @Suuskehh welcome!!

sarajw,
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@Suuskehh in case you also find it useful, I like this site for Mastodon orientation:
https://fedi.tips/

Also this one specifically about our instance:
https://about.front-end.social/

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T shirt twinsies! @paul @heydon

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If anyone at #CSSDay wants to know the story about the little slightly creepy bell pepper stickers :happy_pepper: -

They're based on this thread: https://front-end.social/@sarajw/109994451332222396

The design is by @andycarolan 💖

sarajw,
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@rem hahaha! Every time I look carefully at a pepper and consider where I should cut it, I never get a good face. Left up to chance, I get a good one (or sometimes a pair, on both sides), every 2 or 3 months :)

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In her closing talk @stubbornella is asking for input of what we want out of our Masonry CSS properties.

I feel like we could forever get input into how it should work, and the CSSWG might be able to put something out that covers 99% of wants...

BUT as soon as it's released with whatever constraints it may have - the people that have ideas and can bend CSS to their will (paging @stephenhay and @kizu!) will start subverting it to do something new and different!

Bring it on :)

#CSSDay

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@stubbornella ooooh gosh I reckon we should name the hypothetical 2D masonry variant "drystone"

#CSSDay

sarajw,
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Incidentally @stubbornella seeing as you asked for things to be submitted - here's my attempt at a Fakesonary using Grid and Flexbox: https://sarajoy.dev/#stuff

#CSSDay

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@DodoTheDev @stubbornella Inca! Yes those are amazing too

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Re @stubbornella and special language within companies (her example was 🐑 for "ship/sheep it"):

People in my company in Germany react with a 🇬🇧 on any announcement of someone being off sick.

The code for this in slack is :flag-gb:
German for "get well soon" is "Gute Besserung". GB. Great Britain.

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And when someone caught COVID we also started getting 🇲🇻. Because we wished them a mild course of COVID - or a 'milder Verlauf'. :flag-mv: Maldives.

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Thanks @joshtumath for all the tooting, you are embodying the BBC - Busily Broadcasting CSS

#CSSDay

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Front-end.social peeps want to do a team photo?!

sarajw,
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@hdv nope! Nothing missed I'm just failing to keep an eye on messages and the balloons are now back in the foyer

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@jonpearse @mia I'm too late though - maybe after the last two talks? @hdv and who else is here...

Edit: oh lol several of the speakers and other people are all on f-e.s but obviously quite busy

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To the people with FOMO - you're not missing out.

It's terrible, the people suck, the conversations are boring, the talks are rubbish.

CSS is lame, the web platform needs fixing with layers upon layers of JS, I miss Flash, bring back Dreamweaver, websites should be images with clickable regions.

You're fine. Enjoy whatever it is you're doing instead, we're having an awful time.

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@hmig me, deceptive? How rude!

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