It's trans day of visibility! Trans men and trans women and trans non-binary people - I see you. I feel safe around you. I count several of you as my friends. There have always been trans people.

My eldest has been using this on his Android tablet to make short stop motion films: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cateater.stopmotionstudio He wants to pay 6€ to get some of the upgrades, notably some kind of erase function. Is this any good or are there other apps we […]

"I warn my students: - Yes, AI can generate the code for this assignment. Don’t let it. You have to write the code. I explain that, if they don’t write the code, they will not be able to effectively read the code. The ability to read code is certainly going to be valuable, maybe more valuable […]

The #NoKings protests are not useless. Growing solidarity is important. Feeling empowered by how many of you there are is important. Bringing together like minded people to spark organising is important. Find someone with a clipboard and sign up to do something concrete towards a better future 💚

Love and support and courage to all participating in #nokings in the coming hours. No, the marches and protests themselves won't directly change things. But they *will* upset that guy. And they will help you and the people throughout the country to know they're not alone, and that you're strong […]

My eldest and I just came up with a limerick based on the names we gave our two Mastodon plushies (you can see them in my profile picture): Fruity and Tooty: The Mastodons Tooty and Fruity Treat their tooting like it's a duty But they eat too much fruit And instead of their snoot The toots […]

Hey friends who will be protesting tomorrow and want a punchy sign, here's some inspiration: https://www.allthingsletters.com/how-to-paint-protest-signs/

Youngest kid has started dropping the F bomb! I did hear other (German) kids at Kindergarten saying "What the Fuck!" - I generally choose not to react. But I have had to tell him that in English it's actually rather rude, and really not something a 6 year old should say, and never to say it in […]

So https://cs.sjoy.lol now has 150 members and still a few more to come whose emails I haven't got around to replying to 🫣🫠 Sometimes, traversing the ring can be challenging, finding the right page with the webring links to move onto the next site. I think that's part of the fun... If anyone […]

Whyyyyy is it snowing?!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cferdinandi/116290359328617397 This makes me sound profound - but let me be clear, like Alice: "I give myself very good advice, But I very seldom follow it. That explains the trouble that I'm always in..."

LOLOL just asked my team mates whether we should call this a toggle or a switch and we're currently on 33 replies

German/English amusement: The bus displays here say "Fahrtende" when they're terminating at the current bus stop, means literally "journey's end". But of course Fahrt sounds like fart 🫢 In German right now, the whole gendering thing is a thing, and some companies find the "*:innen" ending to […]

RE: https://mastodon.world/@webstandards/116289510061373658 Highly recommend:

Just ordered a year of printed @theonion! https://membership.theonion.com/

Allow me to introduce #mll coding, the counterpart to #llm vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.

Finally put it on today!

Looking for book recommendations for a precocious 8 year old reader who we got started on @philipreeve.bsky.social - first Adventuremice but since has also devoured Railhead and is onto the Mortal Engines books! I think Sci-Fi is becoming his thing... Ideally books without swearing or sex please!

RE: https://toot.cafe/@tomayac/116266348670617662 Oh this is good. I realise that the locking down, the verifications, the increased occurrence of magic links and 2FA drives people nuts - but I also see how fast and deep fraudsters can get into systems, and that something has to be done. The […]

My eldest is reading a book of terribly punny one line jokes by Tim Vine and alternatingly laughing his head off, and asking me to explain them. I am regret.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116245628277400452 Ooh, just got me a bunch of new phone wallpapers..

Ooooops, my finger slipped and I ordered a T shirt, two pins and a set of stickers... https://shop.joinmastodon.org

Youngest asks me if people can be deaf and blind, I was like "Yes they can. Can you imagine not being able to see or hear? They have a special sign language that's by touch." I went looking for a video and found that in America at least, it was finger spelling until a 'pro-tactile' way of […]

RE: https://front-end.social/@sarajw/116229892485190241 Between/after the band sets, I heard more than one version of Shake, Rattle and Roll and while musically I love that thing, good god it's hideously sexist. Are there any versions that aren't so painful? Bill Haley's version is a little […]

Ohhhh. Just looked up the time cards that appear on various Youtube videos because I finally realised the same things popped in lots of places. So, I never watched much SpongeBob... spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/List_of...

I'm going out dancing 🤩🤪🎉

My mother is a strong Christian, of the loving and inclusive kind, but recently she said something that was so anti trans that I thought it could only have come from the UK TV media she consumes. Anyway, I sent her a message after watching a video of a sermon that I think would be a good thing […]

This feels like a good way for the AI bubble to burst - people get to keep their useful pet oracles and stop paying and giving their data to the oligarchs: youtu.be/YTLnnoZPALI

Non spoiler (hopefully?) Andor question - what are the function of the pen things in the near-armpit pockets of the ISB officials?

[Andor Series 2] I am watching episode 9. My heart is beating. I know I'm behind. What a show. Please no onward spoilers!

The Internet Phonebook issue 2 is opening for submissions!: https://tally.so/r/3EEZzL It's legit, a lovely printed object, I'm in the first one :)

@sarajw I'm on Android Chrome and my site is a PWA. I've tried many things to do what you want to achieve (even changing urls to android intent://), but without luck. I wished manifest "scope" parameter would suffice. For now I have to use the link contextual menu for that. Let us know if you […]

Is there a way to stop a PWA from opening links "in-app"? It's very annoying!

Some women's day reading for techies: https://web.archive.org/web/20191130180008/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html

There is far too much death and suffering, but could some outcomes of these bad times turn out good? Extremely high oil prices which last long enough to force people onto bikes/public transport and maybe help them realise they're not so bad, actually? AI bubble burst / market correction […]

Boo, yet more jeans worn out between the legs before I've even had them a year. I even bought two pairs the same size to wear interchangeably, and tried the Scotchgard trick around the crotch area (but I only did it once because it's stinky, and I worried about putting forever chemicals near my […]

Well this is a helpful counter to my mood yesterday: https://youtu.be/66wen6C4UNw Hoping onto hope. There is hope.

[Geopolitics I guess] I can see how people let the Nazis rise up under their noses. Poisonous political parties are allowed to grow until they're too big to ban or stop. Huge disastrous wars happen overseas, or on the same continent, or just a couple of countries over. The people or […]

Issue 85 of the 11ty Bundle #11ty @11ty#11ty https://11tybundle.dev/blog/11ty-bundle-85/

Hello friends who deal with Storybook! Can I add a toolbar button to which I can just give some JS to? I want to make one that toggles color-scheme, of course. Struggling a bit with the add ons search, and old stackoverflow posts that concern a rather old version of Storybook. Thank you!

I've long been confused by the changing Lighthouse ("Core Web Vital") metrics - and they depreciated Time To Interactive (TTI) just as more and more sites and web apps started loading static sites that got "hydrated" with JS later. At State of the Browser, @zachleat talked about the […]

RE: https://social.lol/@hl/116154709716402097 TFW your husband is making better CSS jokes than you:

Sara Joy @sarajw #sotb26

Had a brilliant day today at #sotb2026 ! Took all my notes on paper, which is why I've been quiet about it, it's better for my concentration ✏️ Looking forward to chinwagging down the pub shortly 🍻

Elder millennials: Don't see the point of always carrying a water bottle around until they're thirsty and wish they had one with them.

So who am I seeing on Saturday at SotB?

Have you already seen this @sarajw ? https://youtu.be/tkUgOT22F5s There's a lot of joy there.

My fastest yet! I solved the January 19, 2026 #TiledWords puzzle! ♣️ “Poker” 🕒 2 minutes, 2 seconds 💡 0/3 reveals used ↗️ 65 moves used https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2026-01-19 @paulhebert

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/116120405745019000 To anyone who experienced downtime, and you know your instance is on @mastohost - bookmark their account in your browser for future downtimes. They do good work, always keeping us in the loop 🦣💙

I got tired of feeling like I should https://sarajoy.dev/blog/just-try-harder/