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Sophie Koonin

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πŸ• Dog botherer πŸš€ Staff Eng at Monzo 🚧 Web1 enthusiast and fan of pointless websites πŸ‘» localghost.dev DMs closed (not giving my ID to bsky) - use email (on website) #TransRightsAreHumanRights Banner pic: florian.photo

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The Online Safety Act mate

05.08.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly I just forgot and tried to send a DM and was like "why is nobody showing up on here"

05.08.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would love this πŸ‘€

05.08.2025 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I promise you that "having your styles and components collocated" is not worth the upgrade and maintenance costs. Also, you can do that with inline styles anyway if you really want

05.08.2025 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

JS-based CSS frameworks are not the way - take it from someone with a lot of experience of Styled Components. You shouldn't have to do a giant JS upgrade across your entire app to take advantage of new native features of HTML and CSS. So it's nice to see TW offer a light touch approach.

05.08.2025 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Friends at Last: Tailwind & CSS…whodathunkit?! Freely compose UI using native CSS variables & syntax, Tailwind design tokens in CSS, and Tailwind utility classes.

Tailwind appears to have had a rewrite and now integrates much better with actual CSS. I'm honestly quite impressed. thathtml.blog/2025/08/tail...

05.08.2025 06:24 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

I can't stop listening to it

05.08.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This reads like satire 😩

31.07.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

29.07.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4729    πŸ” 1513    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 40

Really sad about the end of ReactJS Girls. It was the meet-up that launched my speaking career and was reliably full of lovely people.

29.07.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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devslove.it | Instagram | Linktree View devsloveit’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

After-event interview with devslove.it and @marcthiele.com, drawing a resumΓ© as well as having a look into the possible future of #btconf and community events in general. beyondtellerrand.com/blog/link---...

24.07.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i love him even more

28.07.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Panel 1: Bus driver saying "Don't make me tap the sign"
Panel 2: The bus driver tapping a sign that says "Engineers must review all AI generated code"

Panel 1: Bus driver saying "Don't make me tap the sign" Panel 2: The bus driver tapping a sign that says "Engineers must review all AI generated code"

Been seeing an uptick in what are clearly vibe-coded PRs. On the surface this seems great -- more contributors!

But in the reality it's often AI slop that the person hasn't reviewed and instead the burden of review is on us, the maintainers -- which is a horrible trade.

23.07.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

I love everything about this website! I keep meaning to go to WDC but every year it doesn't work out 😭

21.07.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love iA Writer

21.07.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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State of HTML 2025 Take the State of HTML survey

If you haven't already, do fill in the State of HTML survey, especially if you are a member of an underrepresented group so they get a diverse range of responses. Apparently browser vendors use this to inform what they do next πŸ‘€

survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

21.07.2025 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
An Etsy screenshot: "TERFs will be fed to Blobby 38mm Button Badge". A hand holds up a circular badge with a trans flag background and the text TERFS WILL BE FED TO BLOBBY around an illustration of terrifying 90s uk tv mascot Mr Blobby

An Etsy screenshot: "TERFs will be fed to Blobby 38mm Button Badge". A hand holds up a circular badge with a trans flag background and the text TERFS WILL BE FED TO BLOBBY around an illustration of terrifying 90s uk tv mascot Mr Blobby

Fastest purchase I've ever made

20.07.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For those that are trying to learn more advanced JavaScript, currying is when you take a function and then serve it with a creamy sauce and some spices typically with meat, fish or vegetables. Hope this helps!

17.07.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

😞

16.07.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes yes yes

I say this as someone who has been active in many women's and underrepresented genders spaces within tech: they absolutely have a place but they are not the solution to the entrenched problems in the industry.

16.07.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh YES

16.07.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks mate, and seconding Maggie and Ana!

16.07.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man I would love to be hanging out with this crew!

16.07.2025 06:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Completely appreciate that you don't want to post it but I'm dying to know what it was about

16.07.2025 06:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Floorp is firefox-based by the looks of things. I'd expect that to support everything that FF does, unless they forked before nesting support was built and didn't keep up with the specs?

14.07.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why are you still using Sass variables out of interest?

13.07.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I need mixins anyway to avoid copying and pasting huge amounts of repeated code across themes, so I guess this is moot because I'll be using Sass for a while longer

13.07.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've got postcss in the mix already, I'll probably keep it in

13.07.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I got to question 13 and rage quit

13.07.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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