Jess Darnes Writes

🥰 thank you, lovely!

“Your daughter has eaten a concerning amount of cheese”

– Picking my one year old up from nursery

A large graphic of an ampersand on an orange background and text in italics that says “So, you want to tell a story?”

I’ve got some availability! In need of a wordsmith to help you craft your web copy, write some blog posts or put together a social media campaign?

I can also help you build your content strategy and tell your brand’s story to your audiences.

Get in touch to see how I can help 👉🏻

Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this". Government responded: "No."

Every UK petition is like this

A soft-top Mercedes Benz driving down the motorway with two twisty and pointed bushes in the back that look a bit like Marge Simpson’s hairstyle

An interesting hairstyle choice…and matching, too!

Love how this clip from Jon Richardson so succinctly sums up having an #AuDHD brain…

www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxXI4...

I know! Me either, until I saw it at Costco

😂

Classic Macaroni Pudding Recipe This Macaroni Pudding recipe is an easy take on a classic British recipe. My Grandma used to make this for us all the time, and it's so delicious!

TIL macaroni pudding is a thing 🤢 scottishscran.com/macaroni-pud...

If I was proofing something like that, I’d say around £150 for the whole thing. That’s based on 3 hours work - if I then continued working with that person doing proof work, it might be a bit lower, if it’s not as time consuming.

Netflix's Adolescence highlights the danger of social media content on young people's minds. There needs to be an equivalent show highlighting the dangers of newspaper content on the minds of the elderly

Robb Owen - Independent Creative Developer Robb is an independant creative developer from South Wales. He loves helping organisations to build ambitious yet accessible web projects. Sometimes, he also writes in the third person.

Looks like I'm going to have availability for new contracts from later this month

I've got 15+ years of frontend experience, with an emphasis on interaction & animation. I'm a dab hand with all the usual frameworks like Nuxt, Next and Astro too

If any of that's what you're after, drop me a line 👇

A photo of a billboard showing various logos including Tesla

A close-up of the Tesla logo altered (non-digitally) to say “Hitla”

lol

Back on our BS at Costco 😅
(cc @daviddarnes)

657: David Darnes on Web Components and Design Systems David Darnes joins us to talk about his work on the Nord design system, writing web components, working with embeds and web components, thoughts on building a progress bar or notification component, keeping design systems and design tools in sync, and tricks for components and variables.

657: David Darnes on Web Components and Design Systems

David Darnes joins us to talk about his work on the Nord design system, writing web components, working with embeds and web components, thoughts on building a progress bar or notification component, keeping design systems and design tools in…

a cartoon of a man with a surprised look on his face Alt: a cartoon of a person with a surprised look on their face and a cat next to them

Our one year old said our older daughter’s name at dinner earlier. We were all like 🫨

😩😭😱

😂

My Mum and I were uber-CSI fans 😅

I love that you were kind enough to say “the girls,” like that didn’t include me, too 😝

Love it when Siri plays ‘Louise Essentials’ for me when the littles want to listen to Bluey 👍🏻 you’d think it’d learn with the frequency of things you search for. Same with Maps - it should look at your locality and your previous search history, surely 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thermos of coffee for me & @jess.darn.es while the girls sleep in the car 💅🏻☕️

👏🏻 nice one!

Currently at 124 unread emails, so need to follow in your footsteps

Sunshine and coffee making me feel very happy and quite hyper this afternoon! Here for sunnier days after all this awful British gloom.

“Outro” by M83

The Matrix

Hehehe nice 😊 I count myself among the geeks in the house, too 😅 just different geekery, I guess!

If you’re in Bristol (UK) and need any coffee/bakery/food recommendations, HMU! We’re spoilt for choice for many options here, but there are some that are top notch and I’m willing to share 😉

The level of geekiness in this household is overwhelming at times 😅