Melanie Richards

The law of babies is that they have a finely tuned sense for when their parents are about to do a self care. This is the moment to scream. 😌

Local elections suffer from low turnout, but the results have a huge impact on your community. Go vote! 🗳️

The missing raspberry in the GBBO title sequence is my Roman Empire

Learning Log, Oct 2025 Living in the infant time vortex

✍️ New Learning Log is up! These will likely be a bit brief for awhile… melanie-richards.com/blog/lea...

King County WA community food resources, for those who need them or want to contribute to them: publichealthinsider.com/2025/...

A piece of printer paper with the words written in black and orange: “Spending time with our new little boo, help yourself to candy! Happy Halloween!” Next to it I’ve drawn a cute little ghost

Gonna be porch candy people this year. Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃

Anyone notice how many novels are set in 2019? Almost as if the authors didn't want to navigate something that happened in 2020 onward… 🙃

BRB sending this to my parents who teased me about taking an accounting of my candy as a kid

As you progress in your career, you need to adjust your communication to your audience. *speaks in a sweet, squeaky voice to the baby* 🐣

Internet Auntie is online, buying domains for all the niblings 🛒

Melanies united in beefing with Slides over image file type support 🤝

Flower Power Socks A floral foray into colorwork socks

Finished knitting my second pair of socks last week! #knitting #knitsky #sockKnitting #colorworkKnitting making.melanie-richards.com/flower-power...

At this point in culinary evolution, "salad" is a meaningless word

Let’s work together. — ethanmarcotte.com Hi, I’m Ethan. I’m a web designer who helps companies make beautiful sites and services that work everywhere.

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I just wrapped a project with a lovely client, and I’m thinking about what’s next. So! I’ve got availability for new work starting in October 2025.

Spiffed up the ol’ portfolio a bit to showcase some past projects, and to talk about the work I do:

ethanmarcotte.com/work/

Make your proposals for Interop 2026  |  Blog  |  web.dev Find out about the progress of Interop 2025, and how to submit your ideas for 2026.

Interop 2026 has started asking for proposals.

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What would you like to see being made more interoperable across all the major browsers?

90% of my family lives in Florida and I am not doing ok right now!!!

I know we can't give into hopelessness and despair, but these villains make that SO HARD to resist 😞

📈 #BacklogReadathon Day 6 Stats

As suspected, Saturday was a big day for reading:

- 51 pages in “Devotions”
- 139 pages in “Bury Our Bones”

As of today I’ve got 116 pages left in “Devotions” and 291 pages in “Bury Our Bones”. To finish both in time for the SPL Book Bingo means 135 pages a day over the U.S. holiday weekend…let’s do this!! ☕️📖🐛 #BacklogReadathon

📈 #BacklogReadathon Day 5 Stats

- 45 pages in “Devotions”
- 46 pages in “Bury Our Bones…”

Got a bigger chunk of reading done for a work day! Also watched a new movie adaptation of a book and was woefully disappointed 😔

📈 #BacklogReadathon Day 4 Stats

Back to poetry, with 35 pages in “Devotions”. Appreciated this terminal line: “I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

📈 #BacklogReadathon Day 3 Stats

On Wed I focused on fiction, with 47 pages in “Bury Our Bones…” 🧛🏻‍♀️

YES to SVG as well!

*Bernie voice* I am once again asking why Google Slides doesn't support webp

Yay, thanks for joining in! 🙌

📈 #BacklogReadathon Day 2 Stats

Just read some poems in “Devotions”, 36 pages for Tues!

A 20 point swing toward Democrats. Ready to run for office? @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net

Hi all 👋 We're gearing up for 2026 planning soon (UI capabilities and Interop)

Do you work on a UI library or framework? I want to hear from you and your experiences/needs. Message me!

📈 #BacklogReadathon Day 1 Stats

- 24 pages in “Bury Our Bones”, things are getting more interesting!
- 17 pages in “Devotions”; read the selected poems from “What Do We Know?”
- 41 pages total, a humble beginning!

Ooh I’ll keep an eye out for it!

“Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” by V. E. Schwab

“Devotions” by Mary Oliver

Kicked off @backlogreadathon.com today, so there’s plenty of time to join us in reading your TBR stacks!

I’m hoping to finish these two books in pursuit of SPL’s Summer Book Bingo. Still getting over an illness from last week so we’ll see how far I get #BacklogReadathon #readathon