Ugh. Feeling glad I don’t desperately need a job immediately. The process of looking for one at the moment is just awful. 😮‍💨

I haven’t been on here for a while. Gosh it’s quiet. I guess Threads is really preferred these days? It used to feel like this place was more for actually keeping up with people rather than just doom scrolling, but doom scrolling seems to be what the people want 😮‍💨

banana frog ! 🍌🐸 #frogart

the rabbits outside my office window have achieved a near perfect roundness

He’s not wrong. Sadly you can get a long way being to stupid to work at a tech company. I’ve worked with people like that. 😮‍💨

Honestly, if you value content you've created always make sure it has a home outside of a single company. Always.

If you've been living under a rock, or simple don't care - here are a few reasons why, from my collection under a borrowed hashtag bsky.app/search?q=fig...

My palate cleanser contract this year was just what I needed. Pure Angular, solving real problems. It finished earlier this month but I'm in no rush to pick up the next thing. I feel like the market at the moment is in such a weird place. I'd like to see how the AI slop bubble settles first.

Oof, this is pretty brutal. I see comments like these about Nx a lot. This particular Reddit post just seems to have corralled them all in one place. Surprised to see so many recommending Moon these days. Historically it wasn't considered a serious rival. User-friendliness counts for a lot though 🤔

They're making the sunsets transgender!

Please don’t be this guy

It’s things in the world like my previous post that has me not really giving much of a crap about the latest technology right now. Tech bros will do what they do believing themselves to be above politics while C-suites fund more right wing lobbying marching gleefully into the arms of fascism. 😞

The FBI is about to declare trans people as “violent extremists”. We fucking told you this was coming. Kimmel is just the latest thing, there have been hundreds of dead canaries leading up to this. Some of you never read that poem and now you’re one line away from being rounded up yourselves. 🤬

guys, please chill out on the mod staff, they are overworked! They've had to spend the past 2 days banning trans people for the crime of saying "rest in piss" on TOP of their normal 40 hours a week spent banning anyone from Gaza!

Ask me in front of >100 people which bit of Angular is my favourite, my mind is always going to go blank. Not because of the situation but because I don’t have favourite parts of tools! I use them to build things. I just want them to allow me to do that with the least friction. 🤷‍♀️ #AngularConnect

Frogge

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Please support Gretchen. Her writing is incredible and she's being targeted for censorship. Manhunt remade me. I am about to start Cuckoo and I know Black Flame is gonna be a real treat

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on a practical note, gretchen is now out about $1400 a month (DC’s opening page rate is still $70 for writers, yeah?) so please go buy her books (MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME) and—very important!—leave short, *glowing* reviews about them online to help with the algorithm

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Jessica Janiuk is a Staff Software Engineer at Google where she works on @angular.dev, which recently hit version 19. In this episode, Jessica joins the show with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about the Angular project. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/11/a...

Someone put the Jet2 jingle over the footage and I am definitely going to hell for how much I laughed out loud. 😅

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

The way this is being hyped up by all sides as some kind of watershed moment in political violence (unlike dead school children of course), I can only hope that it’s not so influential that in 90 years or so we don’t end up with another whiny indie band naming themselves after a historical figure.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

I can’t recommend the close up video, but at least now I know what “decorticate posturing” looks like. It’s not a good sign.

Fuck allll of these actors. I’ll never pay for or promote anything with any of them in it again. It’s not like they’re struggling for money, but they’ve chosen a payday over principals. 🤬 variety.com/2025/digital...

My sealife #pixelart set is nearly at 1000! Only 10 more to go! Anyone got any good suggestions for the last pieces to add to the set? <3

@mikejudge.bsky.social is smart. Be like Mike.

More blogging! I don't want AI agents controlling my laptop. Not because that's not useful, but because it's incredibly hard (impossible?) to do securely: sophiebits.com/2025/09/09/a...

My contract is up at the end of this month. I’m going to take some time off to try and rekindle my joy, but if that doesn’t work… What do we need more of in the world? Assassins? 😅

So, let’s say you’re sick of developing software, what would you go and do instead? Farming? Coffee shop/cafe? Art? Music?

While I’m quite looking forward to #AngularConnect this weekend, part of me is very tired of this industry. I’ve been working in it for nearly 30 yrs now and while there are little pockets of hope, there are aspects of it that are more toxic than ever. Sometimes I just want to try something else.

Does anyone reading this skeet work on (or know of anyone who works on) www.gov.uk/alerts? The list of alerts is only available as an Atom feed which relies on XSLT to display in the browser, and there appears to be no proper HTML alternative (the link rel=alternative goes to the homepage).

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Not really posting much here at the moment. There might be a flurry as I attend #AngularConnect in September though. I’m a little disappointed with this place and the world in general.

If you’re doing the “trans men in women’s toilets” gotcha, 1) you’re making what was always a crap argument 2) you’re revealing that you haven’t read the UK Supreme Court judgment because it says trans men aren’t allowed in women’s spaces (because we look like men) OR men’s spaces

JKR contributed significant money towards a Supreme Court ruling that does nothing for cis women except increase threats for those who are GNC. Meanwhile, a charity for single parents (mostly mothers) and their children that she is PRESIDENT of has just closed their helpline due to a lack of money.

If you played that fucking HP game or still engage with any HP merch, please stop following me. You’re not a safe person and you didn’t listen to the message of that fucking poem. This Supreme Court decision today in the UK has been directly financed by the queen TERF. You’re responsible.

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

yeah there's a direct through line between this ruling and anyone who bought that hogwart's game that trans people got screamed at for suggesting we boycott

Pig ignorant bullshit from TERF island today. I’m considering leaving for a more intelligent country if I can. Every single one of these grinning arseholes deserves nothing but discomfort. It may take 50 years but we’ll look back on this period of history with shame.

Holy fucking shit. 😓

So, The Dead Zone, one of my favourite Cronenberg films and favourite King adaptations is on Amazon Prime at the moment and I’m actually surprised they’re allowing it. In the current political climate it’s hard not to see the latter half of it as in some way instructional. 🔫

Merry trans day of visibility. I’m being visible at a wedding today. I hope all the trans folk out there use their temporary visibility wisely. ✊🏳️‍⚧️ #tdov