Now that my photos app works again, and I'm excited for the kids to think I'm hip tonight, I can share our Huntr/x and Bobby costumes from @magnolia.boo Featuring @kayla.ooo @kgrayson.com and @richard.sween.dev

Dishonest: "I promise I am not ignoring your email!" Honest: "I have seen your email and I am ignoring it, but only a little bit and not forever."

how your email finds me

replying to the contractor's house project estimate with "LGTM; merge it"

Me, 6 months ago: "Wow, I've got this idea for an event and the budget just got approved and I'm so excited to plan it!" Me, currently: "I forgot how awful this is. If I never plan another event it will be too soon." Me, one month from now (probably): "Wow, I've got this idea for an event and–"

Hello kids. Great costumes. You can have boring regular candy or, in exchange for a small fee, you can invest in something I'm calling Candy Premium, an AI-enabled solution that

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

I recently got back from a great conference & instead of a typical recap, I wrote some thoughts on conferences in general & in particular my love of small community conferences (even though they can be very fragile & fleeting)

I am looking for a full-time job. Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me. If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

the teams update that allows multiple emoji reacts from one user has (unfortunately) meaningfully improved my life

me, looking around at the utter state of everything in this industry: yea i. i actually can’t help but feel like tailwind is to blame for this

Time for the annual changing of the guard (putting away the converse high tops, taking out the doc martins)

If the azure outage lasts longer than 15 minutes everyone gets to go home

"I suppose you're all wondering why I've gathered you here today...me too. There was something. Damn, I knew it two seconds ago. Hold on. Do any of you remember?"

When someone asks how I stay sane while being extremely online

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Next Murderbot Diaries book gets announced for May 5, 2026. Next Dungeon Crawler Carl book gets announced for May 12, 2026. Guess I better go ahead and put in for some PTO.

Fuck you *git commits your .DS_Store file*

got some picures back from KCDC which means it's time for another installment of Weird Faces I Made While Speaking

every hotel should be required to disclose how close they are to the train tracks.

Other conferences make sponsors blend into the background. We let you rise from the digital graveyard and terrorize attendees with your APIs. Be the sponsor that haunts their GitHub commits forever. 👻 https://tinyurl.com/52uc3xkk

posting this here because I feel like we’re all buddies if you want to come to @magnolia.boo and you’ve been laid off or are otherwise unemployed or just need some help, holler at me or @richard.sween.dev. as long as you can make it to Jackson, we don’t want the cost of tickets to be a barrier 💙

Got my performance review.

everyone is a designer [derogatory]

Our annual State of Designer / Dev Collaboration Survey is live! As an (admittedly biased) designer-turned-developer, this is one of my favorite projects we do at Progress. If you can spare 10 minutes, fill it out and add your opinion to the mix! ✏️ progress.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Looking for a weekend project? The KendoReact Free Components Challenge is your chance to build a cool React app and win a share of $3,000! 🚀 Submissions are due September 28th. Need some inspiration? Here are 3 unique ideas you can build in a couple of days: #ReactJS #WebDev #KendoReactChallenge

SquiggleConf 2025 was an absolute, incredible blast. We had a wonderful time learning with you all. A HUGE "thank you!" to all our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers for making this a wonderful experience. We can't wait to see you in Spring 2027. 💙

Didn't even manage to hold off long enough to take a photo. Maybe I need to work on my patience in this coming year. Shana tovah, y'all 🍎🍯

I feel like em dashes get all the hate when we're picking on AI-generated content, but "it's not just X, it's Y" is always the one that sticks out like a sore thumb to me

Shout out to the guy who put these stickers on all the gas pumps at the local grocery store

Well damn, if I knew all I had to do was "sudo rm -rf congestion" this could have been a lot easier.

SquiggleConf deserves an order of magnitude more attendees

Every time I mention knitting while at a tech conference, I find at least one other knitter! We're gonna have to start a DevsWhoKnit discord or something

Pretty sure the entire speaker list at @squiggleconf.com 2025 has a secret agreement to use the Senior Engineer Phrase "it depends" somewhere in their talk or Q&A answers :)

Good morning from @squiggleconf.com! First talk was already so, so good. It feels like such a treat to just get to attend a conference and not have to speak or work a booth, haha 😅

if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys

GOT A SHIRT OF THIS ONE AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

Two more days until SquiggleConf 2025! Wow! We're so pumped to welcome you all to the Simons Theater at the New England Aquarium. See you soon! 🥰

With the caveat that I'm not fully in agreement with the "Frameworks Being Suffocated" section, I thought this was an interesting and insightful read on the stagnation of React: www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w...

if i were still on twitter, i'd retweet this; instead you get this poor quality screenshot. happy Call the Midwife season 14 drop day, to all who observe

we finally caved and got an appleTV subscription, and i'm very excited to finally be able to watch severance (just in time for everyone to be done talking about it forever)

my account switcher is acting weird on this app but we’re doing a ticket giveaway on the magnolia discord in like 2 hours or something so hurry on over there and enter! discord.gg/cHaG6ywf

I know it means "are you still considering buying it" but I checked it out from the library, devoured it one sitting - and holy shit yes, am I ever absolutely still thinking about it. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a long time, Kindle automatic notification system.

👀 If you’re not on the Magnolia Conf Discord, you’re missing out right now… discord.gg/Z9jWE8pQjd

If I may add: - decaf coffee & teas (in the afternoon especially) - a vegetable of literally any kind at meals (lettuce on the sandwich does not count) - a place to refill reusable water bottles - easily accessible outlets - N/A drink options at the afterparty / speaker dinner / social event

the really important question here is: how would you spend the $1000 when you win? 👀

DND will surely fix me

i constantly think about this post