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rachelandrew

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Content lead for Chrome DevRel at Google. Opinions (and cats) my own.

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sally, to random
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I've reached the part of my (anti-)social networking life where I simply can't be bothered with signing up to new things, and I'd rather just hang out in a cosy little corner elsewhere and watch all the snark happen 🍿

rachelandrew,
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@sally I feel like that too, but I do think I was lucky to be a beneficiary (in terms of my visibility in my career) of old Twitter. It was a powerful place for people to raise their own profiles and for others to boost people who were doing good work. I don't know where that is now for new folk coming into our industry.

rachelandrew, to random
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Seems there's a lot of folk trying to make the new social media thing be like the old social media thing at the point they liked it best. And these things are going to keep appearing for as long as everyone is searching because it might be "the one" (and for most people launching these things that means the one that makes all the money/has all the data).

I think that the next big thing probably won't look like the old thing, and will take us all by surprise. Until then I quite like Mastodon.

rachelandrew,
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I also know that the collapse of Twitter is devastating to many folk who used the platform to fundraise, to highlight indie businesses, and to find community. If I were in the business of making social media apps, I'd be more interested in finding a way to support those folks (and as a user of those apps I'd be more likely to join something that was doing that).

rachelandrew, to random
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Windows: I updated your computer last night.

Mac: Sorry no update.
Me: Yes there is, and work will not let me access the network if I don’t do it.
Mac: No update.
Me: …
Mac: Oh ok I hid it behind a Safari TP update.
Mac: Can I download it?
Me: Yes
Mac: Can I install it?
Me: YES
Mac: Sorry. First you need to close all these things one by one. That one will need force quitting, I don’t know why.

Windows: Having fun over there?

rachelandrew, to random
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It’s been sunny for weeks in Bristol. My taking PTO seems to have ended that run. On the upside I might get more DIY done without a sunny garden to distract me.

rowan_m, (edited ) to random
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Love checking in on the Google Keyboard combinations to see what and unhinged creations they've enabled. I've tried giving them names... what would you call yours?
(There's a web version too https://emojikitchen.dev/ 👀)

rachelandrew,
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@rowan_m I cleaned my fridge yesterday after being away most of the last couple of weeks, and I'm pretty sure I found one of those chilli/spider beasts.

whalecoiner, to random

Every time I travel on trains I remember why I hate travelling on trains. The reason is always Deutsche Bahn.

rachelandrew,
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@whalecoiner DB seems a special kind of awfulness. They once showed my train as canceled, when in reality they seemed to have changed the schedule between me buying the ticket and traveling. The exact same train just left ten minutes later.

rachelandrew, to random
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I’ve been pretty quiet of late, partly because of work stuff but also because my daughter got married! I love this photo taken from the sidelines of the official photos, this is all the mothers! Beth’s husband gets two mothers in law, as her dads’s second wife has been a huge part of her life. Sometimes “broken” families just mean that doors open to new people arriving in the children’s lives, and it can be a joyous thing if you let it be.

sophie, (edited ) to random
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Is there anyone in my extended (or otherwise) network of web devs who's got experience with internationalisation & localization?

edit: thanks folks, got lots of replies! I think that's plenty.

rachelandrew,
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@sophie It depends what you are looking for but Richard Ishida https://typo.social/@ri is the Internationalization Lead at the W3C, there's a lot of good stuff here https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html

sophie, to random
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Came away from feeling so inspired by everyone I met and everything I saw. (I wish I could say I spent the train journey building cool stuff but I mostly stared zombielike out the window listening to podcasts.)

I learned so much, met new friends and ate too many cheese sticks. Thank you to @ppk & everyone involved, and everyone who attended, for an unforgettable experience 💖

rachelandrew,
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@sophie @ppk aww I wish I had been there, but I'm on a self-imposed travel ban to avoid getting COVID before my daughter's wedding next week (I've not had it yet and felt that this would be a very bad time to do so). Next year!

rachelandrew, to random
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I’ve always liked taking photos of flowers and gardens, and it amazes me that despite my lack of competence or knowledge all this stuff has grown in my own garden.

Purple flowering thyme plants alongside a path.
Peachy colour rather extravagant looking roses.
Big sunset coloured daisies.

rachelandrew,
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I think the lack of knowledge makes it more fun. There's stuff I planted last year that I'm completely amazed by, as I had no idea what it would do. All the roses were planted last summer, so did a bit of flowering, but this year they are beautiful.

Also, I had NO IDEA what terrifying looking beasties live in the ground.

rachelandrew, to webdev
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I talked about Baseline on the Smashing podcast https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/05/smashing-podcast-episode-61/

ppk, to random
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So this does not work, does it?

grid-row: 1/-1

to make a grid item span all rows, regardless of how many there are.

Then how do you do that?

rachelandrew,
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@ppk You can do it with subgrid and an extra container https://codepen.io/rachelandrew/pen/arOabY (except, we don't have subgrid in Chrome right now), but yeah, line -1 is the end of the explicit grid.

rachelandrew, to random
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A beautiful morning.

The sun riding behind some huge cranes.

rachelandrew, to random
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This week has left me somewhat broken. I’m hoping this here salad has some magical powers because I’m supposed to be doing a half marathon tomorrow.

rachelandrew,
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At least while I’m doing a half marathon I’m not checking my fresh hell alerting device. So it might be that the slower I do it the better.

rachelandrew,
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An update. It was not fast or pretty, but I dragged myself round.

A half marathon medal with an image of the Bristol suspension bridge.

rachelandrew, to random
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Getting out the Calamityware for the 4th coffee of the day. It’s going to be a long day.

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