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sarajw

@sarajw@front-end.social

Fresh front-end dev and techy generalist, mum of 2, euro-mongrel (🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇸🇪), lapsed swing dancer & DJ, erstwhile tall ship and dingy sailor, crocheter, lefty.

Work with :react:, but ❤️ vanilla :html5: :css3: :javascript: (particularly ✨CSS✨ 🥰)

Cis het - she/her, supporting :BLM: :a11y: 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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sarajw, to random
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Little did I know having my youngest learn about Isambard Kingdom Brunel would lead to existential angst.

"Is Isambard alive?"
"No, he lived a long time ago."
"Why do people stop being alive? I don't want to be not alive!"
"When bodies get old and tired they don't work so well any more."
"You say you are old and tired a lot!!!"
"...
..I'm tired and grumpy but still very much alive, I promise. I have lots of years left. I'm ten times as old as you and will probably live for the same time again."

mxbck, to random
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✏️ New post: "Old Dogs, new CSS Tricks"

Lots of new features have shipped in the last few years, but real-world usage is still low. What are the things holding us back, and how can we break out of our old habits to learn new ways of writing CSS?

https://mxb.dev/blog/old-dogs-new-css-tricks/

sarajw,
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@mxbck @matuzo 😆🔥

sarajw, to random
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[insert obligatory joke about missing hotel room here]

sarajw, to bristol
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"Mama, why is he lying down?"
"Well he never really deserved to be standing, he was a rich, bad man who made his money moving people around the world where they were forced to be slaves."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Edward_Colston#Toppling_and_removal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-59727161

sarajw,
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@peterjriley2024 oh yes. It certainly wasn't just one or two slave traders, the whole country was enriched by slavery.

They obviously thought it was a fine thing to do or that statue would never have existed in the first place..

sarajw, to random
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Part of a display about disability activism in Bristol, and the rise of the social model of disability.

https://dabristol.org.uk

sarajw,
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(on the mobile web I get an annoyingly oversized and intrusive "back to top" icon upon scrolling down on pages of https://dabristol.org.uk, so sorry if you do too)

jon, to random
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For the first time since 1992 (when I was 12) I’m completely disinterested by the UK General Election.

Sunak and the Tories will lose, Labour in uninspiring, the Lib Dems weedy, Greens weak and SNP weakened, and Reform simply grim. And Brexit is the elephant none of them will touch.

As I’m still a UK citizen I will vote, but it’s with less determination than ever before.

sarajw,
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@jon my ex-constituency - where my vote is still counted - has a good chance of voting in a Green MP - so I'm pretty excited!

sarajw,
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@jon hah yes then I can see how it's more 'meh'

wllnr, to random German
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aaaaaaaaaahrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

sarajw,
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@wllnr :happy_pepper: :happy_pepper: !

sarajw, to random
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I enjoyed giving a talk, dare I even say it'd be fun to do another one? I don't know what else to talk about though. Do ideas for talks just come, like blog posts? Or should I ask followers for what they'd like to hear about?

sarajw,
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@ross yep that was exactly the reason for doing the one I did, but some people seem to do lots of them!

I'll hold on until I find something else that I want to share... :)

keithjgrant, to random
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My copyeditor just changed "front-end" to "frontend" so does that mean the debate is settled?

sarajw,
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@keithjgrant eh, if you speak German we're either a Frontendler or Frontendlerin so, eh

sarajw, to random
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GRAAAARGGLEFLARBLEGRAAGGHAAARGGG

sarajw,
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@mihobu @andycarolan @hryggrbyr StickerApp was good, based in Sweden but ships everywhere :) only minor complaint is that with the narrow border, the cutout was ever so slightly off-centre.

sarajw,
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HEEEEEHEHEHEHHEEEEEFLGREGLEEE

sarajw, to random
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Some things you only remember about an old home country when you return. In this case, the UK:

  • Toilet paper is too soft & falls apart easily.
  • Softened water makes washing soap off take ages.
  • Everything indoors is a little more moist.
  • Hiya/seeya!
  • Separate hot & cold taps.
  • Levers on toilet cisterns.
sarajw,
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@christian Germany has its own version of lots of British things 😅

sarajw,
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@christian lolol. I think modded cars are right up Germany's alley! Not my scene anyway... Thank you! Just got to Centerparcs with my olds 😅

sarajw,
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@a11yMel @rachsmith woohoo, no work for me, I very rarely wear makeup! Saying that, in the US office world I may be considered unprofessional...

Also yes the 'alright?' could totally be confusing, I can see that! In Hamburg a common greeting is also 'na?' which I found totally confusing myself when I moved here. The correct response is a returned 'na?' 😆

sarajw,
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@DodoTheDev @christian amazing, where was that? Barry?

ross, to random
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I used to get excited by big tech announcements. But now it's all just so uninteresting. Is this because I'm old? Is it because there's just SO MANY keynotes and product launches now that it's too hard to keep up? Or... has it actually become boring and mundane for others too?

sarajw,
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@ross it's like yay more strokeyphones and fondleslabs

sarajw, to random
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New jam: https://youtu.be/8p6_VL00Vqk

sarajw, to random
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Oooh there's another chance coming:

https://bbc.com/news/articles/c163j8551ygo

Also I feel shamed as a once-physics-teacher - I didn't know or remember that the sun changed polarity every 11 years. That's cool and weird and mind blowing.

sarajw,
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@timdnewman I haven't seen them, I turned in early that night myself!

I'm heartened by people who had amazing photos on their phone who said "couldn't see any of that with my eyes though"...

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