Looking for a cofounder to build a non-US static website host. Think Netlify but bootstrapped and hosted in Europe. No VC bullshit. Hmu if you're queer, interested, and can do devops.

Crocheted my own dress and wore it to pride 🏳️‍🌈 💞 🧶

💔 Front-End Developer Seeking Meaningful Contracts Looking for a new partner to elevate your next project? I specialise in front-end architecture and design systems, crafting beautiful user experiences & enhancing legacy code. Let’s make something amazing together! [email protected] 🙏🖤

37% of users change their text scale sizes on iOS/Android - @joshtumath.uk

In case you missed it: my books are open for consulting and contracting gigs! 🚀 If you need extra hands on a project or strategic technical guidance, let's chat. 👉 carmenh.dev/consulting/

TIL I have no idea how to spell spontenaety from memory

Playing the demo for the new Star Fox with an N64 controller brings me back and is warm and fuzzy 🥰

*hears ice cream truck in the distance* Yooo, that's the ice cream leitmotif

Lookie here apple watch I may be walking on a treadmill but that doesn't mean my workout is over YEESH 😤

Thanks for the flattering thumbnail YouTube 💜 What can I say, teaching CSS colours is thirsty work!

Wanna gather a bunch of austrian bureaucrats around a campfire and tell a scary story: Me: And then.. the U... was followed... by an I. And then a second last name, Peltier. And, dear listener, THERE WAS NO HYPHEN. Them: Screaming

Okay so I know it's been less than 24 hours but I went to my first (queer) burlesque show and I am finding glitter in the most random places of my flat

Anybody in web dev/design looking for opportunities to get on stage and speak? We're looking for @webdevconf.com lightning speakers for October 9 in Bristol. 15 minutes on stage to strut your stuff! Reply or DM if you're interested!

Makes me very happy to see RE code Veronica getting a remake. Even as a kid I struggled with that game

Oh gasp! I'll be there! And I'll be so happy to see you there! 💜

Ok so I just learned about the chilean book "Para Leer al Pato Donald" (How to read donald duck) which is a critique of Disney comics and american imperialism written in 1971 not too long before the US installed the Pinochet dictatorship and banned and burned the book. Uhhhh I need this book now

Whoever made that meme about putting lots of parentheses in your writing and how they're little ADHD nuggets of context I need you to know that you have made me extremely self conscious and I'm upset about it

Sign up as a recurring donor to sponsor one of @distributeaid.org's HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits. That's a whole year of everything-but-the-meds every single month! (if you're cis and in a white collar job do one / week)

Wanna follow the ZurichJS crew and our awesome lineup? We made a starter pack for that: go.bsky.app/R5bfzC8

Not me panickingly compiling libvips by hand on a Friday evening

Me, upgrading Ubuntu, just nodding along, agreeing to upgrade PAM. I'm happy for her

Mina the Hollower popped up and I'm so happy it did 💜 hitting the perfect game loop I wanted

Partner expresses they wanna do some sudoku. Me opening my trench coat and holding a Nintendo switch: hey kid, wanna try some picross? 3 hours later they’ve solved like 30 puzzles. I am a bad influence 😅 💜

Added a little consulting page to my site: carmenh.dev/consulting/ Hire me, pals! 💜

New blog post: Gadget Review: Chuwi Minibook X N150 + Linux ★★★★☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gadget-review-chuwi-minibook-x-n150-linux/ I needed a small and light laptop to take travelling. Something with a larger screen than my phone so I can use the Big Internet™. Nothing too expensive …

I'm available for consulting from June. Dev work, DevRel, Dev Education, Content Creation, and helping teams make sensible decisions about automation without betraying their users. 17 years exp, Vienna-based, remote across Europe and beyond. Boosts massively appreciated 💜

Being able to add folks as co-authors on GitHub commits feels like such an aggressively loving way for me to give credit where credit is dang due!! 😤 💜

At the very Viennese doctor’s: Them: Huu-weee-doh-proh… puh that’s a complicated name isn’t it. Me, screaming inside: heh you betcha, doctor Khevenhüller-Metsch

In a bus in Innsbruck, on the other side of the country, turn to my partner and exclaim: Me: Christopher Walken Partner: what Me: that’s the actor I was thinking of four days ago Partner laughs knowing me

I’ve been given the feedback that my “hairy arms” are “giving bisexual” Like I’m flattered I thought they were giving Latina 🤷‍♀️

That curly hair looks familiar doesn’t it 🤔

No products = amazing curls, please make it make sense 😌

I don’t know what’s going on but everybody I’m talking to including me is going to the psychiatrist today

I just learned that it’s commonly held that the Pokémon Psyduck is a platypus and like… what?

ADHD demands I crochet and hang out with my husband Leon at the same time

We've had over 75,000 folks learn with us over the years, many of them moving into new jobs through their skills. So it's probably generated the most economic value of all the projects I've worked on! I'm so proud of our little team Carmen Huidobro and Eda and our learners

Hanging out with younger folks who think gifs are cringe is finally the point where I proudly bring this bad boy out. Only shame is it’s not a gif

Hanging out with younger folks who think gifs are cringe is finally the point where I proudly bring this bad boy out. Only shame is it’s not a gif

Finished crocheting my first sardine 🐟 🧶

Swimsuit cover up dress and yours truly and are now ready for summer! 😌 💜 🏖️ 🧶

Hooray! The Bad Website Club Launch Party is live! We're on with @quincy.bsky.social, @brucel.bsky.social and @jesslynnrose.bsky.social telling us about learning software development: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Ao...

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I wanna visit a Japanese hot spring, just onsen my life

One week till the kickoff party for our free web development bootcamp. If you want to learn HTML, CSS and core web skills, @rivea0.bsky.social @hola-soy-milk.online and I would love to learn with you 👋 📍Free 10 week online program 📍No signup, tracking or upsells 📍Chill, creative, friendly vibes

Thinkin’ about el mosco again

Next project done 💞 she loves it!

Partner surprised me with flowers again 🥰

Watching that clip of Orbán getting smacked in the face by Juncker on loop to celebrate

It’s been an incredible experience to do this with Jess these past few years and I can’t wait to start again 💞

I like the web and I like people learning new things. So we're running a free 10 week web development bootcamp online, starting April 24th. 📍Free and not selling/pushing anything 📍Livestreamed lessons with Q&A 📍Expert guest speakers 📍Chill vibes 📍Kind learner community