Ava
ava-gunn.bsky.social
Ava
@ava-gunn.bsky.social
Frontend Engineer
I blame this UI pattern on two historical development trends.

Poor form persistence, causing users to distrust the back button.

And SPAs abandoning browser history altogether and reimplementing it in UI.
February 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM
git commit -m "When in doubt, setTimeout"
September 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The top hn comment on a post about rationalist cults being positive, is so on brand it's like 360° irony.
August 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
If I was an accessibility audit vendor, I would submit a list of specific, concrete tasks to fix, and not whatever the hell I was just given.
August 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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look, sometimes people shouldn’t blog — this is a wild pivot from me I know
June 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
DIVS
May 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Temporal is gonna arrive before the React Compiler.
May 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Meticulously debugging headers only to find out I'm hitting the wrong API.
May 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
DIVS!
May 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The emotional whiplash that is Double Zeta Gundam.
May 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Zaku II has the shield on the wrong shoulder.

Shield on the left means you can fire right-handed while covering yourself. And if your gonna ram someone with a spiked pauldron, you probably want to do it with your dominant side.
May 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Has anyone done an accessibility audit of the Figma app itself?
May 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Torn on deepening my react skills because that's what's being hired for given I think react is bad tech and shouldn't be used.
May 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I love how we re-invented the long compile time break with "modern" JavaScript.
May 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My Internet provider decided to give me the day off 🙌

Happy May Day
May 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Learning obscure programming languages so I can't be replaced with AI.
April 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
So tired of build tools. CommonJS was a mistake.
April 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I think AI business model is to get people to vibe code themselves into a hole so they have to start from scratch and prompt again.
March 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Some people deserve derision, but ableism ain't it.
March 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Existentially tired
March 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
At least vim movements work in my vibe coding prompt text inputs, so also this arcane knowledge wasn't a total waste.
March 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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🏳️‍⚧️My friend played a gig tonight supporting Trans Continental Pipeline - helping queer people move to CO for safety. They've gone from ~40 requests per month in October, to ~400/mo since november, and need support.

Can you chip in? Or do you need help?

https://tcpipeline.org/
March 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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it was a cold, still night on the front lines — me & the other boys in the 121st digital regiment shared nervous eye contact as our breath turned to steam. the deployment to prod was scheduled for 2 hrs before dawn on friday and something didn’t feel right to us…our platoon never deployed on friday.
programming should feel like war
March 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I decided on the tech stack for rewriting my personal site.

Going with HTML and CSS.

Headless and Bodyless CMS.

Seeing as I'm more likely to rewrite it before making a second blog post, why overengineer?

Unbundled, unminified markup over the wire.
March 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It's ok that Trump doesn't drive, Teslas are self driving.
March 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM