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sophie, 8 months ago to random

This chatbot could’ve been a form

sophie, 3 months ago to random

How did we get to a point where it's okay to have a feature that has this disclaimer

sophie, 6 months ago to random

If you think CSS is some kind of "problem" that needs solving with frameworks, perhaps first consider that maybe the problem is that you don't know how to use it

sophie, 1 month ago to random

Really really love this: The Millennial Captcha (make sure you try it out)

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

sophie, 8 months ago to random

“Side projects don’t need to be monetised to be valid. They don’t need to become NPM packages or open source projects.” @ohhelloana #SotB2023

sophie, 8 months ago to random

For a while now I've been wanting to write about the inaccessibility of SaaS products and the issue of shipping prototypes to production. The launch of the Vercel v0 LLM for generating UI was the prompt (wink) that I needed. https://localghost.dev/blog/ai-and-the-trouble-with-inaccessible-saas/

sophie, 7 months ago to random

I made a quiz based off of some research I was doing today. Workforce Management Software or Pokémon? https://forms.gle/ZPYofTmxd67cWaTK8

sophie, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to random

We're hiring at Monzo! We've just opened a role for a senior web engineer for our Financial Crime team.

edit: to be clear that is preventing financial crime not perpetrating

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7194296631687561216-BYW5/

sophie, 11 months ago to random

The :has() selector means our days of injecting scroll-blocking classes onto the body element when modals are open are over! #CSSDay @matuzo

sophie, 11 months ago to random

I’ve got a fantastic product manager friend looking for his next role. Fully remote preferred, UK or +- a few hours GMT, east coast if flexible about working hours. Who’s hiring? I used to work with him at Monzo and he’s excellent. (He’d prefer no fintechs tho)

sophie, 3 months ago to random

I've seen a few folks sharing a post about how Copilot leads to worse quality code. I think it's not that simple: I use it and I've had a lot of success with it, but the important thing is that the code I am writing with it is still my code, as I would write it. I just let it finish my "sentences".

As with any code generation tool - or indeed, with any snippet you find on StackOverflow or other website, or even in a book - it's really important to pay attention to what you're pasting in. (...)

sophie, 9 months ago to random

After discussing game recommendations with friends last night and realising there were so many I wanted to recommend, I wrote a list of my favourite video games: https://localghost.dev/games

sophie, 4 months ago to random

I jotted down some memories of the early 00s teen website scene to go along with the new theme https://localghost.dev/blog/remembering-the-early-00s-teen-website-scene/

sophie, 9 months ago to random

People like to shit on React, and with good reason. But sometimes it feels like people forget that a lot of us get paid to write React, whether we like it or not. When working on a massive React codebase it absolutely doesn’t make sense to migrate to a new framework unless you can justify the time, effort and expense. So all these posts/blogs I’ve seen that suggest that developers are somehow making mistakes or ignorant for still using React - a lot of us don’t have a choice.

sophie, 5 months ago to random

I wrote a post about engineering progression in tech companies, and the different ways you might progress through roles and organisations.

As engineers it can be unclear where we’re heading, especially when we’re heads down writing code all the time. It can be hard to think even a few months ahead. What does an engineering career in a larger organisation look like? What even is a staff engineer? How long should you stay at the same company?

https://localghost.dev/blog/engineering-progression-for-humans/

sophie, 6 months ago to random

We're hiring a QA at Monzo - if you know anyone good please tell them to apply because I need someone to tell me when I break stuff https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/5532556

sophie, 1 month ago to random

My best mate’s running the marathon tomorrow so I’ve made her a sign

sophie, 8 months ago to random

YES I want this on a T-shirt @rachelandrew #FrontZurich

sophie, 8 months ago to random

“Moonshots came straight out of the capitalist playbook. Fuck setting unattainable goals.” @Amy_Hupe #SotB2023

sophie, 4 months ago to random

As requested by @flori: how I deploy my @eleventy site to Neocities! https://localghost.dev/blog/how-i-deploy-my-eleventy-site-to-neocities/

sophie, 4 months ago to random

I'm using raindrop.io, @eleventy and GitHub Actions to automate posting my favourite links of the week on Sundays. https://localghost.dev/blog/automated-weekly-links-posts-with-raindrop-io-and-eleventy/

sophie, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I've written a new post: So you've decided to get into mechanical keyboards (a guide for beginners) https://localghost.dev/blog/so-you-ve-decided-to-get-into-mechanical-keyboards/

sophie, 3 months ago to random

Mastodon, more like OnlyMans

sophie, 1 month ago to random

New level of hell just dropped: API error messages that come pre-formatted in Markdown, containing important JSON inside the Markdown

sophie, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

My friend used an AI song generator to generate a comedy country song about crabs, which was very entertaining, but the fact that this software exists makes me deeply sad because people have truly devalued the arts far beyond anything I could ever have imagined. In the same way as they are with images, people are going to use garbage AI generated music instead of paying actual musicians