Honey B. Stinger
@honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Fullstack Team Lead; working on a system of config driven modular Cypress tests to automate QA for hundreds of sites
Sometimes sewing and art
Sometimes sewing and art
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Being an old-school web dev is always like "Oh wait, I *can* use container queries now"
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Being an old-school web dev is always like "Oh wait, I *can* use container queries now"
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sometimes you see a font and suddenly need to rice emacs again
Monaspace
An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
monaspace.githubnext.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
sometimes you see a font and suddenly need to rice emacs again
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Just watched someone perform ancient medical surgery on a tomato to teach invisible mending and I’ve never been more invested in fabric repair 🍅🪡
My clothes are about to live to be fucking 110!
#SustainableFashion #MendingTok
My clothes are about to live to be fucking 110!
#SustainableFashion #MendingTok
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Just watched someone perform ancient medical surgery on a tomato to teach invisible mending and I’ve never been more invested in fabric repair 🍅🪡
My clothes are about to live to be fucking 110!
#SustainableFashion #MendingTok
My clothes are about to live to be fucking 110!
#SustainableFashion #MendingTok
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Excellent level-headed take on where we're at in the AI hype cycle
www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up...
www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up...
AI's Dial-Up Era
It is 1995.
www.wreflection.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Excellent level-headed take on where we're at in the AI hype cycle
www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up...
www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up...
Had some time and inspiration to sew interfacing pieces together. Slow but steady
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Had some time and inspiration to sew interfacing pieces together. Slow but steady
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
simonwillison.net
October 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
Encountered two `z-index: 2147483647 !important;` declarations today
October 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Encountered two `z-index: 2147483647 !important;` declarations today
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We had an outage because Qwen 2.5 refused to do anything for a prompt that was modified to add a table of markets with Taiwan and China as separate countries. Wouldn’t do the SA task without a disclaimer that Taiwan is an integral part of China added. Not a sex thing but censorship is insidious
October 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
We had an outage because Qwen 2.5 refused to do anything for a prompt that was modified to add a table of markets with Taiwan and China as separate countries. Wouldn’t do the SA task without a disclaimer that Taiwan is an integral part of China added. Not a sex thing but censorship is insidious
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Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?
There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!
docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...
There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!
docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...
October 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?
There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!
docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...
There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!
docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...
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If you've been trying to figure out DSPy - the automatic prompt optimization system - this talk by @dbreunig.bsky.social is the clearest explanation I've seen yet, with a very useful real-world case study www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Zt...
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...
Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound AI Pipelines
YouTube video by Databricks
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
If you've been trying to figure out DSPy - the automatic prompt optimization system - this talk by @dbreunig.bsky.social is the clearest explanation I've seen yet, with a very useful real-world case study www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Zt...
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...
Feeling chuffed, ended the week with a work win. Parts of a system came together and it started working as designed
October 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Feeling chuffed, ended the week with a work win. Parts of a system came together and it started working as designed
Neat ideas on a different type of social media
September 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Neat ideas on a different type of social media
The visual essays on samwho.dev are a treasure
September 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The visual essays on samwho.dev are a treasure
💯
“Client-side web development is perhaps best conceived of as influence-oriented programming. Once code has left the datacenter, all a web developer can do is send thoughts and prayers”
“Client-side web development is perhaps best conceived of as influence-oriented programming. Once code has left the datacenter, all a web developer can do is send thoughts and prayers”
Frameworkists are eager to tell you about the name-brand tech they're using on the project, then put a Miele oven in the bathroom. Do not be a frameworkist. Do not _hire_ frameworkists.
Be someone who is agnostic to tools but laser focused on goals.
infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n...
Be someone who is agnostic to tools but laser focused on goals.
infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n...
If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives…
infrequently.org
September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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“Client-side web development is perhaps best conceived of as influence-oriented programming. Once code has left the datacenter, all a web developer can do is send thoughts and prayers”
“Client-side web development is perhaps best conceived of as influence-oriented programming. Once code has left the datacenter, all a web developer can do is send thoughts and prayers”
Put tape on the corner of the pattern before I cut it out. I think this will make more durable corners. Not certain if it'll mess up transferring the pattern to fabric.
September 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Put tape on the corner of the pattern before I cut it out. I think this will make more durable corners. Not certain if it'll mess up transferring the pattern to fabric.
I like the plain tracing paper over the gridded version. Way more legible
September 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I like the plain tracing paper over the gridded version. Way more legible
Praxis
me, @rishkebab.blacksky.team and @marisa.blacksky.team built this already by the way. It's called Papertree and it's now under the Blacksky umbrella.
September 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Praxis
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> Each of the women contributes $20 dollars per week to the shared account, to be used for any and all travel expenses later, including airfare, lodging and dining.
White women invent West African susu (savings club / Rotating Savings and Credit Association).
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/w...
White women invent West African susu (savings club / Rotating Savings and Credit Association).
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/w...
Woman explains how she and friends use shared bank account for group trips to alleviate stress of splitting bills
Kim Brindell explained how they came up with the idea.
abcnews.go.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
> Each of the women contributes $20 dollars per week to the shared account, to be used for any and all travel expenses later, including airfare, lodging and dining.
White women invent West African susu (savings club / Rotating Savings and Credit Association).
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/w...
White women invent West African susu (savings club / Rotating Savings and Credit Association).
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/w...
September 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Scrounging some fabric for the coat project
September 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Scrounging some fabric for the coat project
Reviving my sewing hobby
Going to try to build the Merchant & Mills Foreman jacket
Will be making two sizes
Wish me luck
Going to try to build the Merchant & Mills Foreman jacket
Will be making two sizes
Wish me luck
September 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Reviving my sewing hobby
Going to try to build the Merchant & Mills Foreman jacket
Will be making two sizes
Wish me luck
Going to try to build the Merchant & Mills Foreman jacket
Will be making two sizes
Wish me luck