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Rachel Andrew
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Content lead for Chrome Web Developer Relations. Opinions (and cats) my own.
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I have some questions about this hotel room.
A hotel room that is entirely filled with two double beds right next to each other.
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Quick trip to Mountain View for a meeting this week. Went for a pre-flight home run on the Bay Trail and saw the Pathfinder 1 airship! Sadly not in flight, but still quite exciting.
A large white airship in front of a hangar.
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Quick trip to Mountain View for a meeting this week. Went for a pre-flight home run on the Bay Trail and saw the Pathfinder 1 airship! Sadly not in flight, but still quite exciting.
A large white airship in front of a hangar.
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I spend half my life in meetings on camera, so to make things more interesting I decorate my background. My current Halloween display includes a guide to Internet Explorer 4 that came with .net magazine in 1997.
A collection of stuff on shelves. Halloween pumpkins, a soft cat and pumpkin, an a little book about IE4. A mini book "Getting Started with Internet Explorer 4".
October 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Had a wander round some of the local history. Birdoswald Roman fort and Lanercost Priory.
A part of Hadrian's Wall heading off into the distance over a field. The undercroft of an old building with stone arches. A ruined Priory with no roof but fully intact large windows without glass.
October 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I have varifocals for the first time. I'm now like "what even are eyes?" and "why is my desk all wavy?"
A selfie of me, a white woman with short hair, wearing large glasses.
September 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Max here to help with post run stretching. Though really he's hoping to eat my yoga mat or foam roller.
A fluffy orange cat absolutely refusing to look at the camera, curled up on a yoga mat.
September 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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My first race back up North. Chopwell Woods trail 10 mile. Over 1100 feet of elevation so I'm quite broken now.
A woodland path with tall trees either side. Blue sky peeks through. A wooden medal with Chopwell Woods trails printed on it. The ribbon says 10 miles.
August 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I'm sure everyone is excited to see how I got on with my garage. So here's my progress. I got to sort quite a few screws into little pots.
My garage with shelving on the left and a work area on the right. A workspace with a cupboard and drawers. There is a glorious pegboard with little pots for screws on it.
August 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I'm covered in brick dust and bruises but I edge ever closer to the bit where I organise my screws.
A tall cabinet and workbench with a pegboard and shelves for n the wall. Tools are spread everywhere.
August 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Lovely running weather this weekend. A short trail run straight up a hill yesterday, and early morning loops of town today.
Early morning sheep on a hill looking up to a small church. There's a touch of low mist. Looking down a gravel path and over a wild landscape from the top of a hill.
August 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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A significant amount of IKEA.
Many large boxes. Instructions telling me I need two people to assemble this. I do not have two people. This has never stopped me before.
August 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I've taken an extra day off for this long weekend as it's time to tackle the garage where everything got dumped in the move. By the end of this I hope to have a workbench and storage out here.
A garage stacked with random crap. What even is this stuff? Why do I own it?
August 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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I've got a TV for the first time in over five years. Cat TV has caused absolute chaos.
Three cats watching birds on a TV. A grey cat sits in front of the screen staring up, a little calico is standing trying to touch the birds. Behind them is a large orange cat, also transfixed.
August 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I'm enjoying living in a place where I can run out my front door and within a couple of miles I'm running along Hadrian's Wall. We did get chased by a cow, enjoyed that a bit less, gets the heart rate up though.
Remains of a fort on Hadrian's wall under a blue sky with white clouds. Open countryside, in the far distance is the remains of a fort. The sky looks a bit threatening.
August 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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My job for this weekend has been hauling the contents of these two bad boys into the garden. So far the only casualty has been the shit wheelbarrow that fell apart after load 2. I now have shit wheelbarrow the second because you can't buy a good wheelbarrow in an emergency.
Two XL builders bags of topsoil on palettes.
August 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Exploring around my new home with a local running group. Finding bits of Hadrian's Wall up some completely terrifying steps.
A section of Hadrian's Wall with the view of the countryside beyond. Remains of a Roman fort surrounded by hills and fields.
July 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I'm intending to build a garden office again, for now I'm in a box room upstairs. The cats think this is the most exciting place in the house.
A calico cat sits on white shelves. Three cats on a window ledge looking outside.
July 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Day three in my new home. Carpet out, first coat of paint up (F&B Setting Plaster, it's looking awesome in the light), hope to start on the floor later. On a deadline before I collect the cats.
A room that's in the middle of being decorated with a bare concrete floor, the walls are a plaster pink colour.
July 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I had no idea these prayer plants flowered, but this one just popped out these tiny white flowers.
A prayer plant with striped leaves, there's two teeny white flowers on a stalk.
July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Sunrise run to beat the heat. Still pretty warm.
A harbour with tall ships, the photo taken into the sunrise so the ships are silhouettes against an orange sky.
June 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Bristol looking beautiful this morning.
A red hot air balloon passing a tall ship. Both are reflected in the still water, along with a blue sky broken with light clouds.
June 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Using Baseline and Chrome stickers to explain multicol at #cssday
Several stickers lined up in columns on a wooden table.
June 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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If you are at I/O come have a chat at the Web Q&A!
A table with a sign saying Baseline in a sunny event space.
May 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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It was beautiful this morning. Ran an extra loop of the harbour watching the sun rise and organising my thoughts.
A still harbour with a small sailing boat. The sun is just above the horizon in a clear sky. It's incredibly peaceful.
May 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM