Katie Fenn

Is AI Killing Software Engineering Jobs? One claim I see repeated widely on social media is that LLM-based coding tools are taking software engineering jobs. These are often accompanied by extrapolations that soon – any time now &#8…

Did you know the global software developer population's much *larger* than it was in 2022?

Did you know tech layoffs were in full swing when ChatGPT launched?

Did you know AI companies are hiring engineers in large numbers?

A quick fact-check:

codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/i...

Thank you for sharing, it’s a reassuring read.

Can screen readers interpret Unicode styles fonts such as bold and italics? I have seen serval social media channels using Unicode to make part of their text bold or italicised on websites such as Twitter, where this sort of thing is usually not possible. It crossed my m...

Those characters aren’t bold characters, and they can’t be read by screen readers. Stop using them.

ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11...

I went door-knocking for the Greens in Levenshulme a few weeks ago. Not one person told me they were worried about immigration. They wanted their roads and their NHS fixing. They care for their neighbours, even when they don't speak the same language.

Did you catch what Hoyle said? "Another northerner"?

"The hot new gravel biking destination"

Yeah, not really feeling Saudi Arabia as a trans person, GCN.

Following @kitation.co.uk’s talk at #SotB26 today, we’ve decided that browsers need a “prefers-reduced-spiders“ setting.

Use Bulbasaur

(cc: @kitation.co.uk)

Laura Kishimoto (@chicgeek@front-end.social) 455 Posts, 81 Following, 390 Followers · @chicgeek elsewhere | engineering leader丨people advocate | CHD parent | immigrant丨she / her丨岸本真知子

Hey #SotB26, find me on #Mastodon! 🐘

front-end.social/@chicgeek

Hi #SotB26 folks! I’d love to give this talk in more places so if you run an event get in touch!

Chad delivering their talk at State of the Browser in London. Behind them is a huge picture of our cat, Maki, looking very tense

It turns out that Maki can hear @kitation.co.uk say “din dins” even when we’re 150 miles away in London.

#SotB26

I’m off to #SotB26 today! You might need to be a bit gentle with me today, I’m feeling a bit sore and tired while recovering from a bike crash 😴

Yeah, I’ll be back! Would love to see you here next year - or we could get food after work sometime 🙂

No advertising is better than some advertising. Train stations are a public service, why not let them be that.

@rowan.fyi Sad to miss you tomorrow, hope you get well soon!

Worth reading their letter in full, but would particularly like to draw attention to this paragraph, following the High Court decision. Routinely outing trans people at work is not compatible with their human rights.

Based

Ah, yep, that makes sense 👍

Record year for wind and solar electricity in Great Britain in 2025 Wind, solar and other renewables hit a new high last year but the government is still some way off its clean power target.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We absolutely need to cut out gas from our national grid, but I’m not sure this is right.

BBC reports that we generated 77TWh from Gas in 2025, and 85TWh from wind.

We could be doing a lot better, but the UK’s massive expansion of wind and solar is a success story to be proud of.

Jony. Damn autocorrect.

She absolutely was designed by Jonny Ive (figuratively, not actually).

But wasn’t it Wall-E who boots up with the chime?

labour: only we can beat reform

[the greens hammer reform *and labour* all by themselves]

labour: that was us we did that

I heard that you were out and about!

Fantastic work, David 💚👊 So glad to be a part of this together.

Starmer said: "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open and you can leave".

So in #GortonAndDenton, half of the #LabourParty's voters did leave. One of Labour's safest chose the #GreenParty # GPEW's #HannahSpencer.

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[Original post on mastodon.ie]

Yeah, I saw four Labour activists in Levenshulme on the first weekend. Four.

Uh oh

A warning.

All the worst people in the country are now shitting themselves.

The mother of all campaigns is now going to be directed against the Green Party.

It will be an unrelenting smear campaign.

The Greens need to be ready for that - and so does everyone on the left.