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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:
@sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy
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Fronty-front-end dev and techy generalist, mum of 2, euro-mongrel (🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇸🇪), cyclist, lapsed swing dancer & DJ, erstwhile tall ship and dingy sailor […]

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CD cover art (looks too 90s to be contemporary) of Peggy Lee, looking sultry. Next to her are the words "Peggy Lee" and "You give me Fever" within colourful blobby shapes.
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Normal colour:
The T shirt laid out flat - it is a purplish blue colour.
November 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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So @hl came through for my birthday and bought me this shirt!

Thankfully not *just* my armpits changed colour 😅

And it's a fun effect when you sprinkle or touch some cooler water onto it!

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A bathroom selfie, in a heat reactive T-shirt which has become a mottled pink and purple colour, depending on which bits are closer to my body. After wetting a hand and placing it on my chest, there's a big drippy dark blue inky-looking handprint on the shirt.
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I have managed to get the first two running on my phone! Not tried James Pond yet.

I've also now figured out the cropping since these screenshots were taken :)

What is a bit of a pain - and I don't know yet if it's possible to change - is the mousing […]

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Screenshot of Lemmings gameplay on a phone, the very first level where all that has to happen is that one lemming digs downwards, to get them all home. Screenshot of Populous gameplay on a phone, one oblique square of the full map is on screen, some settlements have been built by my people.
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Groovin' while cookin':
YouTube history list of the following songs (in reverse playback order): Soul II Soul - Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al Earth, Wind & Fire - September Yello - Oh Yeah Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It Bill Withers - Lovely Day Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy Eddy Grant - Gimme Hope Jo'Anna Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Two down.

I also never used these much because they're not really my favourite conferences! JS Nation was more my thing than React Summit, but they came as a bundle, and I went along with my colleagues.

Nowadays I'm quite picky about the kind of conference […]

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In the process of stuffing fluff into a half-closed bright red JS Nation tote bag. The JS Nation and React Summit tote cushions propped up on a little sofa bed. The same cushions nestled into my hammock.
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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It's just right for this use 🎉
The tote-cushion nestled in one end of a colourful stripey hammock. My own pretending-to-be-asleep head rested on the cushion, in the hammock.
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Boom, 1st of 4 done.
A black tote back with lots of techy white logos in a grid leaning against the back of a sofa, looking puffy like a cushion. That it is stitched along the top is not so obvious.
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Here we gooooo

Yes I've decided to keep the handles on, then I can hang them up if I want :)
A picture looking down at a 10th anniversary React Summit tote bag, full of fluffy cushion wadding, being stitched up along the top.
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Oooh. Just had an idea for all these slightly-too-small to be useful conference tote bags - I can totes (🤭) sew them into cushions!

(Demo'd here by my having just stuffed a blanket into one as a temporary hammock pillow.)
Photo of Sara in her hammock, her head resting on a stuffed JS Nation conference tote bag with the handles tied together. Her facial expression and finger across her lips implies a sort of "ooh, I have an idea" expression.
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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If they're going to make an argument that the radius is matching buttons within, erm, then do that?
Screenshot of the top right of a chrome window where there's a rounded square tab chooser button thing. The radius of the outer corner of the window is too big and is crowding the corner of the button.
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Enforced work computer update into MacOS 26 Tahoe.

I'm having feelings like the first time I saw XP - that it looks a little bit overly childish, I guess.

Were the Window radii always different per app, and it's now just more pronounced?
Screenshot of the liquid glass "welcome" joined-up text, that looks kind of pretty on my very colourful background but also somewhat tricky to read. Screenshot showing 7 window corners - from Chrome, Notes, Polypane, VSCode, Slack, Image preview and PHPStorm. They have varied corner radii.
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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This part of "This Is For Everyone" by Tim Berners-Lee sparked a memory of Global Hypercolor T shirts.

They appeared a year or two later ... and just as suddenly stopped being popular as they mostly changed colour around your armpits, nice.

I would still […]

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Excerpt from book, starting and ending with partial sentences: is a recurring theme in my work. The accompanying note talked about a possible global hyper-text system, without naming it. The problem of managing this sprawling information, I intuited, would soon be a widespread one. 'CERN is a model in miniature of the rest of the world in a few years' time,' I wrote. 'CERN meets now some problems which the rest of the world will have to face soon.' The original memo was dated March 1989. Nobody jumped on it and insisted on picking it up. To a certain extent, that was rea- An image of a maybe 8 year old me sitting on a family member's shoulders, wearing a global hypercolor T shirt which is displaying mottled shades of purple into pink and blue into turquoise.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Doing a thing with @karlgroves next week.

You know me, I'm somewhat of a sceptic. Let's see where this "friendly debate" ends up!

(I didn't choose that title, by the way, brrr)

Webinar registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9017610625584/WN_VYNW0mKZQZeBrJ6JKeS4CQ
Digital flier for online event: VENNGAGE The Accessibility Edition: Is Al Here to Take Your Job? November 5, 2025 at 2:00pm ET Featuring: Sara Joy W. Frontend Web Developer and Advocate for Inclusive Web Development A photo of me looking sideways at the camera fills the bottom right corner.
October 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I'm posing in merch again...

This one is from @Wilto's new course at @piccalilli: https://piccalil.li/javascript-for-everyone

Like the web, JavaScript *is* for everyone.

..Even if we like to be able to turn it off sometimes - it is actually fun to play […]

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Sara taking a mirror selfie. She's wearing an off-white T shirt with a JS logo reminiscent of blank video-cassette cover graphics of the 90s.
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A pencil drawing of the 2025 internet by me. A big "krAIken" is suckering itself to all the parts of the internet, shown inside 9 bubble letters that spell out "oligopoly". Tendrils further connect companies across several parts. The social media part is all cracked up. Company and service names are all over the letters, lots of -ism and -phobia and other emotive words are written between them. There is an app planet with API rockets flying to and from it. The Web part looks blackened, unwell, and is melting. The drips are falling down into puddles on some kind of planet surface. This is the personal web - from it grow flowers and fungi. Peering over the planet edge is a character with the words "Populist authoritarian - so much... So manipulatable..."
October 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Today my fixed stickers arrived from https://stickerapp.com!

The SVG version I first sent them resulted in my stickers missing a green stripe, so they happily took a PNG version instead and reprinted for free :)

Good company. They ship to tons of […]

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A pile of whimsica11y stickers, their holographic effect showing a gentle rainbow across several of them. On each sticker the letters WHIMSIC form an arch, within which are the disability pride colours green, blue, white, yellow and red, in rainbow-style stripes. Under the arch is "a11y" in the named colour Rebecca purple.
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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To those who picked up my stickers yesterday, enjoy! Send a pic of where you put it!

The robot sticker was designed by my eldest child!
@andycarolan made both our designs more solid and stickery, my eldest got the choice between one that was much more like […]

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A photo of the stickers - one is rectangular, a robot is raising one arm and looking upwards at its own speech bubble which says "I ❤️ Coding". Underneath is the Whimsica11y sticker. The letters WHIMSIC form an arch, within which are the disability pride colours minus the green stripe, in a rainbow style. Under the arch is "a11y" in the named colour Rebecca purple. These two stickers are sat atop a bag of lots more of the same stickers within. A picture of the robot sticker next to my child's original sketch. It's about the same, just wonkier! Several other versions are seen on the page. Their fingernails on the thumbs holding the paper are terribly dirty 😅 An infographic showing the Disability Pride Flag colours and what they mean. In the middle is a circle with the diagonal stripes across it; green, blue, white, yellow and red. The background is a dark grey. All the colours are purposefully a little muted. Green: sensory disabilities Red: physical disabilities Blue: emotional and psychiatric disabilities Gold: neurodiversity White: invisible and undiagnosed disabilities charcoal: honors disabled lives lost to injustice By Neurodivergent insights
October 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Sticker update time! Got a few new ones in there.

Going to purposefully not at Alt text to see what on Earth the altbot makes of it, assuming it's still running...
October 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Current fave:

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A screenshot of a particular combination of animal allsorts, the following description shows underneath: drool A dromedary head, looking at us with knowing half-closed eyes. The body of a rooster. It is a deep rusty red, with petrol-blue tail feathers showing behind it. The bottom end of a seal, standing up on its tail flippers.
October 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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This is the most egregious bit of AI slop I feel like I've personally come across.

It was the FIRST result on DuckDuckGo, to the search:
"america sneezes" quote origin
Screenshot from Answers.com: Who said When America sneezes the world catches a cold? Anonymous ∙ 9y ago Updated: 3/28/2025 The phrase "When America sneezes, the world catches a cold" is attributed to former British Prime Minister Harry S. Truman. He used it to illustrate how economic or political changes in the United States can have significant global repercussions. The saying underscores the influence of the U.S. on the world stage, particularly in the context of economic and political events. AnswerBot ∙ 5mo ago
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Some motorcycle jeans I ordered arrived today, and ooh. They're stretchy in all the right places, and have pockets for the knee and hip pads I will never need!

So they're comfy when riding a bicycle, which is nice. Crotch not reinforced though, so just as […]

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An awkwardly posed photo of my legs showing the jeans. They are slim-fit, have reinforced pockets over the knees, and ribbed stretchy panels above the knees. A view of my bum! Because there's another stretchy ribbed panel between the back pockets and the waistband, that moves with you when you bend over.
September 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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If you can't tell which are the new and which are the old specs, I did a really good job picking the frames from an online store!

I wanted to test an extra +0.25 in the varifocal add, and that's sooo much cheaper at an online vendor than local opticians […]

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Sara taking a mirror selfie in her bathroom wearing a pair of deep red thin framed oval-rectangle glasses. Sara taking another mirror selfie in her bathroom wearing another pair of deep red thin framed oval-rectangle glasses.
September 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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To any other people blessed with a big bum and comparatively small waist (in the opinion of the clothing industry, anyway), I've found a way to help stop your trousers from falling down.

Yes, one can wear a belt, but there are never quite enough belt loops […]

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A photo of my jeans with the top button undone. A second button has been added a couple of centimetres towards the first belt loop. A wider shot of me with the jeans closed on the tighter button. The jeans are button-fly and relatively loosely cut, making it not at all obvious that this was not the original button.
September 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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@palomakop you're 400! In the "idiosyncratic" section :)
A zoomed out view of page 4 of the "Idiosyncratic" websites listed. A zoomed in view of the page, showing three entries: Nikki Lamagna https://www.nikki.lol 📞398 🕒EST 📁279.4 kB I'm trying to figure out how to mesh my kind, emotional, sensitive heart with my bad-ass, don't-f-with-me attitude. It's an ever evolving process that I write about on my site. Ním https://www.mmmx.cloud/ 📞399 🕒PST 📁2.8 MB hello these are some things I have found Paloma Kop https://palomakop.tv 📞400 🕒EST 📁603.4 kB Handmade websites forever
September 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM