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I'm Amy Hupe and I care about making services accessible and inclusive, starting with the basics – the words we use to talk about them.

And for today's #NaBloPoMo blog post: A life update https://amyhupe.co.uk/articles/life-update/

A lot of ppl write about how they wish blogs had better reply functionality and that's why blogging will always lose out to social media. They may list solutions to blog replies and even include …

therapist recommended trying CBT, now I still have anxiety /and/ my balls hurt

At the kind of mainstream developer conference where you overhear folks casually uttering phrases like “he didn’t really do anything too horrible” about Sam Bankman-Fried and I’m so glad to not in any way be part of this swamp. #SiliconValley

> "why do they call it a building when it's already been built?"

Attached: 1 image this is word for word what my last performance review said

Gentoo’s process for removing packages from the main gentoo package repository is designed to make me aware of it and give me time to react, and I really appreciate that.

Any #IndieWeb folk heading to #ffconf next week? I’m wondering if anyone fancies a little informal Homebrew Website Club, or maybe just a coffee or a pint.

After years of constantly lowering my prices, trying to get a vanishingly-small amount of sales on things I care about, I’ve decided to raise everything and make it uniform, across all of my music …

why on earth are the neighbors setting off fireworks, it’s not even novemb— oh. Oh.

Getting ready for KubeCon. It's going to be a mixed experience, not gonna lie. Our home is still filled with what would've been our lives, so I'm grateful for the travel distraction 💔 I'll have a few copies of her book for anyone who happens to find me at the conference : Where's Waldo : https://hackingcapitalism.io For the unfamiliar: the book is about modeling capitalism as a navigable system. The goal is to reach traditionally underrepresented folks who weren't Just Told How It Works.

I hit an important milestone as the open source fan in our relationship, my husband called windows bloated without being prompted to. #goals

I have just discovered that the phrase "to eat something" immediately sounds suspicious if you conjugate it: "I need to eat something": normal, fine, implies you need to decide what to eat. "I need to finish eating something": YOU ARE HIDING A VERY IMPORTANT DETAIL FROM ME

Today marks one year since I walked away from 360,000 followers on that other site joined this incredible community here! That was easily one of the most positive moves I've ever made, and I frankly haven't looked back. Thank you to @jerry and everyone else who keeps this place humming. Come to think of it, it's time to renew our annual support! https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

So sick of the narrative around having productive days and maximising your productivity so I’m just gonna go and celebrate having an unproductive af day or two.

Most senior roles, technology or otherwise, should be able to strike a good balance between solving existing problems and creating new problems. In aggregate, they should solve more problems than they create, and this is how we make progress; fulfilling general goals but also agitating for improvements. One of my line managers once called this "looking for the right kind of trouble".

pex makes piping easier. Contribute to josharian/pex development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Matrix: Wow this Anderson guy is a slave to the system The Matrix 2023: Wow this guy had his own cube at work

Attached: 1 image my friends: why do we have to go to the movies AGAIN me:

Owning something is not a job ❤️

Cleaning up some old notes and finding the one about setting up a local Gitea server with duct tape CI processes because my employer's Gitlab instance was so slow it would break my flow and yeah I'm kinda DIY (not to be confused with "professional")

yeah sure enabling developers is great but have you ever bought hundreds of stickers with money that is not yours #devrel