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Had a great time at yesterday's Stripe event 🥳 it always feels good to be invited to a tech event hehe
July 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
this was a great re-introduction to what is React and where the team is at right now - it's been a while since I've kept up to date on React happenings!

blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2025/06/reac...
The State of React and the Community in 2025
Detailed thoughts on how React has been developed over time, and explanations for common community confusion and concerns
blog.isquaredsoftware.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Just finished my first technical screen interview in months - the last one I went through was in February. 🥹

it really is brutal out here...
June 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Always a pleasure to learn from @stephaniewalter.bsky.social - today on Cognitive Biases 101 (wow really brings me back to my Psych days!) hosted by @smashingmagazine.com 😄
April 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reposted by Qian 🌺
It's about to start in a couple of minutes!
- Sarah L. Fossheim, about accessibility and dataviz issues
- I'll talk about how to design for accessibility
- Kardo Ayoub will share his personal story of becoming a visually impaired designer
- Geoff Graham will host our panel

Free tickets!
Smashing Meets — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Meets Accessibility — February 20, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're hosting 3 amazing speakers who will talk about vario...
smashingconf.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Grateful that being in the EST time zone means that I can attend more @smashingmagazine.com talks - like today's one on Accessibility!
February 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
put on my big girl CS pants and started the not-for-credit CU Boulder: Foundations of Data Structures and Algorithms Specialization Course on Coursera (phew, that's a mouthful...)

2 to prep and 3 to gain admission - 2025 let's goooo 📖
January 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
wtf wdym in python I dont have to convert a string into an array and loop over the array in order to print each character in string (thanks javascript)
December 4, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Going to take December as a time to recoup my thoughts, reflect, and pause on job applications for the moment - I've been going at it since August with nothing progressing past 1st stages, so even as an experienced 5+ YOE FE dev, my self-esteem is taking a huge hit 😔
December 1, 2024 at 5:00 AM
best part about bluesky is that also all the art accounts are here!!! 🥹😻💗
November 22, 2024 at 3:34 AM
I once ran social media for the 2019 edition of JSConf.asia and met so many lovely folks from there, and once there was a mass exodus from the bird app I felt like I lost touch with a lot of them - so glad to discover familiar faces again on here!
November 14, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Reposted by Qian 🌺
We've now got an official logo for CSS: https://github.com/CSS-Next/logo.css
GitHub - CSS-Next/logo.css
Contribute to CSS-Next/logo.css development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:36 PM
So happy to have found more frontend folks with this starter pack! :D bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 13, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Hello World to another platform?? 🥸
January 18, 2024 at 3:55 PM