oh wow, new macos update is super cursed, huh?

Had to grab this talk by @thisisjofrank.bsky.social to share with a learner but I bet a bunch of y'all are gonna find it just as useful www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpSS...

So excited to be speaking with @rivea0.bsky.social at @ffconf.org on Nov 14th about the skills impact of AI coding tools on us as individuals, on our teams and in our industry. It would be so lovely to see some of you there! 2025.ffconf.org/jessica-eda

Burned out my deadline urgency in 2020 and it's wild to look back on how much productivity and misery it used to fuel. Love getting to work slower, more thoughtfully and less despairingly.

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

Everything is stressful and everything sucks but the world is vast, with much space for hope in it. For example, my beloved nephew is safe in his new home and crowdfunding for gender-confirming care, if you had a bit of spare cash and wanted to chip in ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-li...

Everything is stressful and everything sucks but the world is vast, with much space for hope in it. For example, my beloved nephew is safe in his new home and crowdfunding for gender-confirming care, if you had a bit of spare cash and wanted to chip in ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-li...

Psst, hey, you wanna buy some…

Launch week for semi-secret thing (more info here shortly) please recommend me your most intense and unhinged focus music. My traditional go to focus music album: open.spotify.com/album/0ArycF...

The "check every blanket for cats before sitting down" season has begun in the UK.

It always feels like such a delightful little luxury to be in a good mood in a world that's so loud and hard and weird. Everything is still going to be a lot, but I'm rested and surrounded by kind and clever people and we're all gonna do what we can for each other, while we can.

"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home" The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly

Second night of bad sleep in a row and I'm logging on to make it everyone's problem.

Furious that going for a run has left me in an extremely good mood, this is unacceptable and disgusting.

Accountability post: Been putting off fixing my personal website for months, gonna just do it now and just publish whatever is done after 2h* of focused work *plus time needed to sob at DNS

Goddamnit, I'm gonna have to learn Italian at this rate, aren't I (...yes, before you ask, this is related to 70s horror movies...)

Oh, shoutout to iTalki (a language tutoring platform I had quite liked) for adding AI features that: - add no value - actively impede core functionality like booking lessons or making payments - can't be turned off

Cursed thought that would make a huge, ongoing chore for me: Would it be useful for me to start building (with crowdsourced help, please) a list of co-op agencies and companies in tech for jobseekers/clients who love co-ops?

UK Remote Tech Co-op Role Klaxon: The Developer Society works with nonprofits and cultural orgs and has a great reputation locally (in Brum, the best city) as a solid place to work with chill people. They're looking for a Django dev, ideally w Wagtail exp£45-55k www.dev.ngo/join/django-...

UK Remote Tech Co-op Role Klaxon: The Developer Society works with nonprofits and cultural orgs and has a great reputation locally (in Brum, the best city) as a solid place to work with chill people. They're looking for a Django dev, ideally w Wagtail exp£45-55k www.dev.ngo/join/django-...

Admitting that I'm hyperfocusing on work on a long weekend, hoping that the shame of exposure sets me back to the true and righteous* path *hyperfocusing on English language dubbing in Italian produced 70s B horror movies

Productivity hack: Play with your cats during pomodoro breaks to create firm boundaries between focus blocks, enforced by SCREAMING

Productivity weirdos and devotees of the quantified self: I want to do some time/task tracking to get a better understanding of my weeks. Recommendations for y'all's fav lightweight + privacy preserving ways to track time/tasks?

Shoutout to past me for developing an incredibly effective process for managing my semi-annual bouts of insomnia, but for designing a sleep-hygiene-reboot system that only works in my own home.

Love to wake up and find that formerly useful tools have released new AI features that nobody wants, nobody asked for and can't be turned off. How fun and chill.

Tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) course at the Palestine House www.tickettailor.com/events/pales...

Working with multilingual speech corpora + having a partner who really likes the Pitch Perfect movies = discovering that there's a Japanese a cappella corpus!

Posted a photo of my vacation rental's quirky electrical setup to a specialized hobbyist community and have been treated to some informative but not relaxing screaming in response.

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Headed up to the Seven Lakes and am absolutely dazzled by how beautiful Tajikistan is.

In Tajikistan, land of soft breads and exciting dairy options. I should have studied more Russian for this trip. It is 40c. I am having the best time.

Can't explain why, but the lack of context for this ring on auction makes me sure this ring is 100% haunted

I've been/done this but more importantly, beehiiv is hiring someone to do it right now careers.beehiiv.com/en/postings/... We really need somebody good here.

Been chatting to folks recently who have designated glue-work roles, sitting in teams as expert resources and float around to fix/unblock things as needed with quite a bit of autonomy. Folks who do this as employees, not consultants, can y'all tell me about your job? Asking for me👀

As you take your 3pm coffee and/or tea (why not both AND SOME CAKE!?) break, how about you meeting one of our speakers at #FFConf 2025: ffconf.org/articles/202... 👋

Oooh, got hit with a blob of formless anxiety all of a sudden, wild because we live in such chill and uninteresting times. Love this for me.

Did not realize how much I leaned on Pocket to read things I found on the internet. Did any of y'all find replacements you like?

Working out my schedule from this summer, blocking out dedicated focus time for all my projects: I am doing too many things and this is never going to work. Hyped to see how this is going to hurt future-Jess.

Next is @olu.online talking about building a better web. @frontendnorth.bsky.social #FrontEndNorth The W3C TAG have a principle that there is only one web and it is for everyone. Olu says there are many webs out there and they are all part of the one web.

Vivaldi isn't my default browser, but gotta respect "LLMs in your browser are stupid, our users don't want them and we don't want to add them for ethical and privacy reasons" as solid product direction

High quality online Welsh courses are half off right now and I'm about to line up a whole lot of very avoidable problems for my future self. learnwelsh.cymru + "CYW25" code

Staying at my partner's just now, with an established birdfeeder hosting tiny green parrots and large soft pigeons. Infrequent, muted impact sounds mark my orange cat repeatedly reviewing his understanding of window glass and physics.

I lurk in an old groupchat from a building I used to live in, which has slowly transformed into a landlords chat over time. Wow, these folks just admit to a whole lot of crimes out loud, with lots of detail, huh?

Really lovely night at the House of Commons for the @openuk.bsky.social AI report release. Conversation was so interesting that the only photo I have is a selfie where @edent.tel yelled "now a duckface one" 🫠

Really love that my smallest, previously-chillest cat has adopted sudden, full-volume midday screaming as a new hobby. Very chill and cool. Love this for us.

A lot of criticism of Gen AI's unacceptably low output quality misses the point. They're introduced by decision makers who don't understand the work produced and don't care about quality. Expecting the ICs using these tools to care more about quality than their bosses seems unreasonable.

My most horrible cat is luxuriating in this heat like a monster.

What are all these AI coding tools doing to your brain? 🧠👀 I’m so excited to be speaking at @ffconf.org with @rivea0.bsky.social to look at their impact on our skills, our work and our industry. Nov 14th, Brighton, with early bird tickets available right now!

What are all these AI coding tools doing to your brain? 🧠👀 I’m so excited to be speaking at @ffconf.org with @rivea0.bsky.social to look at their impact on our skills, our work and our industry. Nov 14th, Brighton, with early bird tickets available right now!

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