I get to crack into this book today at long last ☺️

Happy belated Hobonichi Day! Just stickered my Weeks for 2026. My husband advised on important decisions such as which otter to adhere. Sticker sources: - Seal and back sticker from work (Webflow) - Cardcaptor Sakura from Lil Sprout Garden - Everything else from STICKII #hobonichi #planners

Today’s a great day to read a book you already have on your shelves or devices. 📖🐛 See you in a few weeks for the December 2025 #readathon! #booksky

I’m working on my first capital-Q quilt! It’s the Granny Core Quilt in the baby size, which will hang on the wall in my wee baby’s room. #quilting #quiltsky #grannycorequilt #dcpgrannycore daisychainpatterns.com/products/gra...

'Tis the season to receive 10 emails from every brand you've ever spent money with

*whispers* corner-shape 🤫👂 🟢 round 🪏 scoop 📐 bevel ⛏️ notch ⬛️ square 🐿️ squircle 🦹🏻‍♀️ superellipse *Pass it on* codepen.io/una/pen/PwNo...

The law of babies is that they have a finely tuned sense for when their parents are about to do a self care. This is the moment to scream. 😌

Local elections suffer from low turnout, but the results have a huge impact on your community. Go vote! 🗳️

The missing raspberry in the GBBO title sequence is my Roman Empire

✍️ New Learning Log is up! These will likely be a bit brief for awhile… melanie-richards.com/blog/lea...

King County WA community food resources, for those who need them or want to contribute to them: publichealthinsider.com/2025/...

Gonna be porch candy people this year. Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃

Anyone notice how many novels are set in 2019? Almost as if the authors didn't want to navigate something that happened in 2020 onward… 🙃

As you progress in your career, you need to adjust your communication to your audience. *speaks in a sweet, squeaky voice to the baby* 🐣

Internet Auntie is online, buying domains for all the niblings 🛒

Finished knitting my second pair of socks last week! #knitting #knitsky #sockKnitting #colorworkKnitting making.melanie-richards.com/flower-power...

At this point in culinary evolution, "salad" is a meaningless word

👋🏻❤️ I just wrapped a project with a lovely client, and I’m thinking about what’s next. So! I’ve got availability for new work starting in October 2025. Spiffed up the ol’ portfolio a bit to showcase some past projects, and to talk about the work I do: ethanmarcotte.com/work/

Interop 2026 has started asking for proposals. web.dev/blog/interop... What would you like to see being made more interoperable across all the major browsers?

90% of my family lives in Florida and I am not doing ok right now!!! I know we can't give into hopelessness and despair, but these villains make that SO HARD to resist 😞

*Bernie voice* I am once again asking why Google Slides doesn't support webp

A 20 point swing toward Democrats. Ready to run for office? @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net

Hi all 👋 We're gearing up for 2026 planning soon (UI capabilities and Interop) Do you work on a UI library or framework? I want to hear from you and your experiences/needs. Message me!

Kicked off @backlogreadathon.com today, so there’s plenty of time to join us in reading your TBR stacks! I’m hoping to finish these two books in pursuit of SPL’s Summer Book Bingo. Still getting over an illness from last week so we’ll see how far I get #BacklogReadathon #readathon

#BacklogReadathon kicks off today!! 🚀We're reading a little more than usual through Sep 1. That said, anyone have a fun reading goal for this week of seasonal wrap-up? #readathon

The State of HTML survey is CLOSING SOON 💥 Share what features you use, want, or find confusing. Whether you're new or a seasoned frontender, your input is vital! Help shape the future of the web! 🗳️ stateofhtml.com/en-US

I love my craphole city 💚🌲

Just one week until the second installment of #BacklogReadathon! Get your TBR piles and snack caches at the ready!! 📚#readathon

✍️ Took the day off to decompress after a socially jampacked weekend and ended up finishing a post that had been sitting in drafts 🚀

We are VERY close to 29,000 responses now. :) If the gender binary doesn't know what to do with you, please click here: survey.gendercensus.com The survey closes on 30th August.

✍️ New blog post: July 2025 in a seashell 🐚

Rude how Oliver Burkeman continues to shrewdly perceive me, a stranger

If you're thinking of starting a newsletter, I'd strongly recommend you consider using an alternative to Substack! Someone wrote up the reasons why and some alternate platforms:

This summer is flying by: less than a month until the second Backlog Readathon begins! What might you be reading as the season winds down? #booksky #readathon #backlogReadathon www.backlogreadathon.com

Made some mug rugs yesterday with my leftover 🍙🐹 fabric #sewsky #sewing #quilting

One of my coworkers accidentally called FOUC “Fear of Unstyled Content” today, and that will live rent-free in my head forever, thanks

TFW you put away the groceries for your partner and find a lil treat for you in one of the bags 🥰

My team is hiring for a design engineer/front end dev. Anybody looking? Would LOVE Seattle-based candidates, but this is a remote job, we just like to hang out sometimes.

All the girlies in the chat beefing with AI for making em dashes look like a robot wrote our work 😤 #freeTheEmDash

And my second knit garment, a tshirt dress! This went much better than my first foray into stretch knits #sewsky #sewing #meMadeWardrobe #ClosetCoreTshirt making.melanie-richards.com/closet-core-...

Got a couple blog posts up for my June sewing projects! First up, a project pouch featuring onigiri hamster fabric 🍙🐹 #sewsky #sewing #sewingForHobbies making.melanie-richards.com/onigiri-hams...

It's here! It's here! So proud of the team for this foundational launch of Webflow Interactions, powered by GSAP. 🚀 And we are just getting started! 😏

Committed to doing something each federal holiday that would annoy the Crook in Chief. Today's mood is a donation to the Northwest Immigration Rights Project

✍️ New blog post: a cross-functional brainstorming exercise I love to run as a PM! melanie-richards.com/blog/opportu... OSAs are a great way to uncover compelling ideas and build a team’s shared sense of ownership in the work. #product #productManagement

3. your career is a pie-eating contest where the prize for winning is more pie the things people see you do are the things they'll ask you to do. if you want to get asked to do certain types of work, make sure people see you doing that type of work

"Eff it, we ball" she proclaims, adding the overpriced burrata to cart 🧀

✍️ New blog post: a cross-functional brainstorming exercise I love to run as a PM! melanie-richards.com/blog/opportu... OSAs are a great way to uncover compelling ideas and build a team’s shared sense of ownership in the work. #product #productManagement

Started a new profile for my crafts and sketchbook stuff! Mostly so I can hang out in those communities without inundating them with web stuff 😜

#Seattle friends: if you're looking for a way to support and celebrate our neighbors today, there's a Juneteenth Freedom Fest on! Consider donating to KCEN, a Black-led org doing great work in the community.

Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did” adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-do... Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas. #accessibility #a11y #UX