It was a lot of fun chatting with @quincy.bsky.social on the FreeCodeCamp podcast! youtu.be/rgt5GPFgryI?...

🤔 Essentially, I am deeply annoyed that the tradecrafts of fiber arts are treated as "granny's hobby" when they are skills with a deep history akin to woodworking and gardening. All of those skills produce things that can help you survive or improve your quality of life.

Anyway, if you want to hear me yap about this or learn to crochet or knit, I'll be hosting a maker's space session on programming and fiber arts at @codemash.bsky.social 2026

The politics of fiber arts go far beyond gender norms, and I would argue they're not harmless since they've been used in spycraft during wars. Fiber arts are a great example of devaluing "women's work" (aka pink collar work) and rampant cultural appropriation.

Woohoooooo! Abbey is so rad. And I love her voice! So I’ll def be listening to this @freecodecamp.bsky.social pod on the way to work today! @abbeyperini.dev @quincy.bsky.social

Seems like a good time to remind my mutuals that if you are stuck or panicking in the ATL airport, my DMs are open. Please don't panic alone.

The New York Times opinion page isn't holding anything back now smh.

I should really learn that every time I try to blame the framework for a bug, I'm the problem. It's me.

Check out my interview with @chrisdemars.net on #VerboseMode by @tuxcare.bsky.social at @magnolia.boo ! (Yes, I am dressed as Mira from K-pop Demon Hunters ☺️) youtube.com/live/oKpK8W4...

This and Discord should make it easier to add and edit alt text, especially on mobile.

Me? Never.

This election is today. One of the incumbents publicly said "I am praying for torrential rain on Election Day. Hail would be even better." Poll workers at my polling location said they expected maybe 50 people total, and instead they've gotten around 30 an hour.

how your email finds me

My husband: oooh this Last Week Tonight episode is about police chases Me: I bet the GA State Patrol comes up Me, minutes later:

Putting away all the extension cords I used for Halloween decorations, and thinking " @dangitalex.wtf would be disappointed by the way I'm treating these cords"

October 31 should not be a spookiness cliff, where spookiness drops precipitously the second it's over. There should be a slow, month-long decline in spookiness where spookiness levels gradually drop off during November at the same rate per day as they increased in October.

I've been giving out mochi squishes for like 4 years, and they always go before the candy. (I keep them in a separate bowl for kids with allergies)

The kids did think I was hip 👻

Therapist: May I suggest you take a break? Me: Sure! OK! So. I want to be optimally relaxed. I'd like to maximize how refreshed I feel in the shortest amount of time possible. What's the best tactic? How do I reach peak rest? How do I win resting? Can I min/max my leisure? Therapist: Oh no.

I'm still mad that all I had to do to fix my phone was delete every local copy of photos and videos. Then all the AI BS the last update shoehorned into the Photos app could load. "Help me edit?" I've been editing photos for decades just fine, thank you.

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

Happy Halloween - do you have a costume? 🎃

There’s a new sheriff in town, motherfuckers.

“We should treat accessibility as something that is structural or baked in or part of the DNA, if we want to be successful” — says @marcysutton.com at #perfnow “Don’t treat it like trying to put chocolate chips into a cookie after it is baked” I love this framing!

Every Southern person has the Actual Winter Clothes Bin that comes out once every 3 years or so.

The number of times during my cancer journey that I considered starting an admin service just for cancer patients. I spent hours every weekday for months navigating the system and fielding calls I couldn't miss. There were several things I gave up on just because I didn't have more effort to give.

I had an absolutely lovely time at @magnolia.boo last week. Great food, great people, and great spooky vibes. Thanks for having me @kayla.ooo & @richard.sween.dev & co., and congrats on a wonderful event! 👻

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

But wait, there's more 👻 #CoderClaws

Halloween set number 2 #CoderClaws

Happy to announce that my streak as @magnolia.boo Costume Contest Winner is alive and well 🎉

Mothman meets Hexflector by James Seawright

I won the @magnolia.boo costume contest!! Thank you to everyone who voted for my Tinky Winky costume!!! Look at this 3d-printed jack-o-lantern trophy 😭🏆 adorable!

There have been so many great talks that will be available on the @magnolia.boo youtube page for free!

Extremely bummed that my phone won't take photo and video or share them so I haven't been able to do my normal talk photos at @magnolia.boo

@abbeyperini.dev talking about GIT-ting some confidence @magnolia.boo and how to restore any recent lost work and what to do when you're feeling that #gitPanic 🔥

A reminder for Halloween: Every person trick or treating should get candy, no matter their perceived age. Things are even more scary and oppressive than ever. Let people have one night of fun and whimsy.

You could just organize people instead of complaining.

Kanoya Kanpachirou (PR chief of Kanoya City) is a skilled dancer with the head of an amberjack.

On average, a cancer diagnosis costs $40k out of pocket. Paula has already been through that twice. Now, she waits to find out if this is a third time because doctors won't even diagnose her until she pays huge bills that her insurance should be covering.

I wish the U.S. healthcare system were better and didn’t force people into using crowdfunding to meet what should be a human right. In the meantime, please consider donating to help Paula.

👻 IT'S ALMOST TIME!!! 🎃 We're only 4 days away from MagnoliaConf 2025! Have you grabbed your tickets yet? Don't miss out on the spookiest tech event of the year! https://www.tixtree.com/e/magnolia-conf-453fc7ea2496

whenever I see a `bet on ${currentHype}` because "the web is in decline" I just smirk because it's a great way of demonstrating you have no idea what you're actually talking about. the web outlives every "the web is dead, use this thing i like" and will continue to do so. always bet on the web.

It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything. Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

Currently in the "realize you can't do everything" stage of the ADHD planning cycle (say yes to everything -> realize you can't do everything -> say yes to a reasonable amount of things -> get bored -> say yes to everything)

I tried to find Empresses in the Palace with English subtitles on a streaming service and failed, but the streaming services suggested similar Chinese dramas and now I'm hooked. 😍

When parakeets cosplay

Welp, that sure sucks.