My partner is having a shit time at work so I am packing him a small origami penguin for moral support alongside his lunch

Signed up for Neocities - I figure it could be fun to have a place to tinker and post the bits and pieces that don't fit into the nice little software-developer-professional-Theo-shaped-box I feel like I have to maintain elsewhere 🤷 No idea wtf I'll do with this yet though!

“I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. […] That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.” Mic drop by @adactio.com 👏 adactio.com/journal/22178

This is the coolest October challenge I have seen in a hot minute: weirdweboctober.website

The Coyier CSS Starter A fairly opinionated CSS starter by Chris, following a set of personal principals to guide what is in there and what isn't.

Good news for those who want to revisit our recent meetup presentations or couldn't make it: the video recording of Robert's talk is now available on our Youtube channel! You can rewatch it & catch any details you might have missed here youtu.be/20s4Ve4LqcU?...

👀 commandfor - enabled by default in Firefox 144 Soon, in all browsers, you won't need any JS to open a popover / dialog 🎉 More info in @keithamus.social post here: developer.chrome.com/blog/command...

Congrats to @sevensea.cat & @zachdaniel.dev - their book Ash Framework is finished & heading to print with @pragprog.com ! 📚 Packed with insights & best practices for Elixir devs. Order it here & use promo code AshRelease for 35% off till end of 2025. 👉 pragprog.com/titles/ldash...

⚡ From $50k+ monthly cloud bills to under $10k with #ElixirLang & #AshFramework. The efficiency advantage is real! Read how it can help your infrastructure crisis: alembic.com.au/blog/how-eli...

We’re thrilled not one… not two… but THREE Alembians will be speaking to #Goatmire & #NervesConf in Sweden this September! James Harton, @joshcprice.bsky.social & @zachdaniel.dev will be sharing their expertise in #Reactor, #AshFramework & #ElixirLang alembic.com.au/blog/goatmir...

I maintain that other men would have signed up for harmony classes at our singing school in a heartbeat if they'd pitched them as Sea Shanty classes

Ready to build your first Ash Framework app? Learn how #AshFramework's declarative approach handles authorization, validation & persistence so you can focus on domain modeling in this excellent beginner guide by @sevensea.cat 👇 alembic.com.au/blog/getting...

The MISCAST 2025 Gavin Creel memorial has me in tears ngl

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Certified Shawn hater reporting in for #90DayFiance this week 😤🫡

We have had a month's worth of rain overnight and it doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon :( Thoughts and prayers for my partner and his friends who want to go on a two-day hike this weekend

i really fucked up git rebase guys im s orry

No, I will not give you another business case for accessibility. Accessibility matters, that's it. If the product doesn't prioritize it, the product is bad.

A really thorough and validating thread for my fellow transmascs

Just finished "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro and hoooooly shit

So a fun consequence of dyscalculia that my partner has picked up on since my diagnosis is that I sometimes read use-by dates on food incorrectly. Nearly tossed out a completely fine half-carton of eggs yesterday 🥲

I'm currently working through the latest beta version and even as someone who has worked with Ash professionally for 3+ years at this point, it's helping me understand the reasoning behind concepts and introducing me to newer bits of the ecosystem that have emerged since I last used it! Highly rate!

Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that. webkit.org/blog/16929/c...

Started back at the gym this morning...where the heck did my upper body strength go 😭

If anyone has ever told you that a fancy text trick you used on socisl media is inaccessible to screenreader users and you didn't understand why, this is a great video that demonstrates the problem super clearly!

Genuinely? The poetry of Banjo Patterson. Funnily enough reading about ghosts in the bush as a young kid who lived in the middle of the bush is a great way to give said kid nightmares. Also unsure who decided to give 6-year-old Theo this book but 🤷

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

I am so so hyped that this season of 90 Day Fiance is streaming here at the same time as America so I'm not 5 months behind on the trashy reality TV goss 💅

Pushing myself to do something uncomfortable and joined a harmony class that my singing school has started running. The goal is to get comfortable singing in front of people who aren't my vocal coach and maybe get on stage at a showcase night 😅

I got new glasses on Friday night and the new script is so much stronger I feel a little woozy after a few hours with them on 🥲 Apparently it's normal but reminds me that my eyes are only getting worse

Loving the collective sigh of relief from my fellow Aussies on here tonight

Don't forget your democracy sausage!!

#ElixirLang folks, go check it out!

📚 NEW POST: Learn how to create reliable dev environments in #Elixir/#AshFramework projects by keeping your seeds.exs tidy & generating test data from the command line with @mikebuhot.bsky.social ➡️ alembic.com.au/blog/seeds-w... #ElixirLang

The fact that Obsidian doesn't let you include colons in page titles is making it a real pain in the arse to name pages after research papers I want to take notes on

If anyone is willing to share examples of how they use #Obsidian for taking notes on books they've read (capturing quotes of interest, adding links to citations they also want to read, categorising works by author etc) I would absolutely love to hear from you! Trying to find a good digital solution

It would be an understatement to say German shaped the way I write tests when working in Elixir and Phoenix - he's an absolute fount of knowledge!

This is important. Food banks can bulk buy, and stretch that money further than you can. They also know what they actually need. Money is better!

We would love to have you present to our #ElixirLang Sydney crowd!

This is going to sound like a shit post but my annoying accordion-playing neighbour has formed a full band and they are playing in the apartment next door

Hoooooly shit.

My kingdom for a Crit III Jewel in #MHWilds

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Alright who let the intern push their vibe-coded PR to prod over at Shopify

You can now rewatch @sevensea.cat's talk Writing the book on Ash from our recent Elixir Sydney meetup is now available on our Youtube channel! youtu.be/ChnPx3c3lUU #AshFramework

In retrospect, both "AI" and "U2" are two characters. It was inevitable that Apple would force it onto the userbase.

Teach the children why radio buttons are called radio buttons

My partner knows my love language is sending me pics of birds he sees on hikes - enjoy this pair of Australian Wood Ducks from his hike today :)

I just wrote “Infinite Bicycles for the Mind” on the levels of surprise in vibe coding. icing.space/2025/infinit...