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With the recent sexual assault allegations of former people’s champ GrandPooBear, I’ve been thinking a lot about his sudden heel turn, and I think this article hits him on the nose with a newspaper.

Congratulations to the people at Medium! I love seeing unions spread around San Francisco tech companies. Hopefully soon with my employer :3

Virtual avatars for streaming and videos have become popular over the last few years. Now you can do it from your browser on your phone?! So cool.

I don’t know Polish but this is pretty fascinating about how the language handles pronouns.

I don’t know what’s more wild: a React hook that makes your custom UI elements accessible or that this came from Adobe.

This article is a beautiful takedown of the fake feminism people sell. Though, this article fails to mention anything at all about trans issues, who are also deeply effected by mobilized angry white women trying to destroy feminism.

Watching Maddy find themself has been a joy, and reading about how Celeste developed with them is great.

Cassidy had an excellent talk today about building an adventure game with NextJS, which is definitely in my interests because I’ve been building my own visual novel in NextJS over the last few months.

Yuki Miku daiyo does a dance on a roof!

A delightful and emotional visual novel. I haven’t finished it yet, but the opening sure was A LOT.

Because Git and GitHub are too cowardly to already be setting the default branch from a white supremacy reference to something simple like “main,” here are instructions to fix your code repository.

The lore behind Fall Guys is as adorable as the little beans. That said, I can’t wait for those eggs to hatch 👀

I’ve seen people at every place I’ve worked just… share things like this with any webpage with a text input box and it’s never set right with me. It’s such an easy way to social engineer your way in to free personal identifiable information.

I stumbled upon this neat community of women makers the other day. Best of all they are trans/nonbinary inclusive.

I am oddly excited about the possibilities of using React Hooks in CLI tools.

I picked this game up in early access a few weeks ago and I’ve put a lot of time in to it. It’s a non-violent Pokémon meets Animal Crossing game with some of my favorite dialog in a game since Night in the Woods. While the game is unfinished and there are a few bugs, it’s still incredibly fun and I can’t wait to see where this game goes.

This is pretty cool, I will definitely be writing some custom scripts for it. During my time as an engineer I’ve always thought the best way to steal company secrets is to make a JSON formatter website or something. I love their headline, “Stop pasting company secrets into random websites.”

I can’t believe it took a study for this to be apparent. I can’t control much of the flow of how job interviews work as an engineer, but I can try my best to make the other person comfortable and relaxed. That is always my goal during interviews. Anything that might make them nervous or anxious I specifically avoid.

I have now published publicly for the first time the code that powers this website.

Translations with DeepL feels more accurate and more natural. I am looking forward to a browser extension.

Hey I just wanted to share that I open sourced a weekend experiment I made a few weekends ago to track pitch frequencies. It’s not the best, but I learned so much in building it within a few constraints: using React Hooks and must work on mobile Safari as well as desktop browsers.

Don’t trust anyone who wants to depict pigs as anything other than violent and bigoted. Not Spider-man. Not Andy Griffith. No one gets to ignore this.

As a girl who learned web development on Neopets, this is very much true and close to my heart.

The audio clip on the article is HORRIFYING. Seems TikTok is not alone in their actions.

While we’re criticizing TikTok for hiding “ugly” and “poor” people from their platform, they have also admitted to discrimination of other protected groups.