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seaotta

@seaotta@toot.cafe

🛠 Designer & product manager
✍️ Author of Design for Developers
🕸 Running https://webwewant.fyi
🎤 Speaks about #webdev #design
💍 Jhey's Wife
📍 England, Seattle and Phoenix

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ScarJo saying no you can't use my voice and Altman doing it anyway is so telling.

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I started vlogging a few weeks ago as a way to learn how to edit videos and just generally share about life in a new way because typical blogging wasn't doing it for me any longer.

A few videos in, I can already tell an improvement in editing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJjnpvO8dI&t=11s

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I am not a designer (I think I'm actively bad at design even) so I don't mean to bash anyone, but as a user I find interfaces like this absolutely terrible:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/the-1-sitcom-of-all-time-isn-t-seinfeld-friends-or-the-office-according-to-data-see-the-top-100/ss-BB1lXB5Z?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=0616b5997d6a41b88a4a09b1380343cb&ei=41#image=1

It's so damned busy and distracting, where does the article stop/start? The article itself literally seems to stop at "Counting down from , here are the best sitcoms of all time." which is the clickbaity shit that gets you there in the first place. Where? Where is it? Can you find it? I can't.

seaotta,
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@bkardell the MSN article design is such a hot mess and based on what I experienced while at Msft, you can't convince me it's not intentional to get people to accidentally click on any of those sponsored click bait links.

seaotta,
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@bkardell I always struggle with these because they are a carousel. I don't have time to click through 100. Also on some articles, they put content behind a read more button that basically just reveals the rest of the article and I constantly miss that. It's not paywalled. Why is it necessary.

seaotta,
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@bkardell yes it is, there should be arrows on the pictures 🥴

seaotta, to random
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My book, Design for Developers, is now available in German 😁

So freaking cool!

https://dpunkt.de/produkt/design-trifft-code/

seaotta, to random
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New on the blog: Exploring the Immersive Web with Wolvic https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2024/05/browsing-the-web-vr/

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When you work on the web platform and web standards.

seaotta, to random
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Font Awesome raised $721,620 to build an open source library of web components. Their goal was $30,000.

I need to collect my thoughts and put it in a blog post but I'm curious what the community's thoughts are on this because that is not a trivial amount of money.

As a web platform PM working in open source and trying to find ways to get funding for projects...was this good marketing? Is it selling a different solution to what's already out there?

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I’m just wondering how people would react if I posted I was handing out books on Wicca and Witchcraft that I’d signed at a tech conference.

seaotta,
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@Meyerweb 💯💯💯

seaotta, to random
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It has been 0 days since a man took my content and didn't credit me.

seaotta,
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@DavidDarnes They've been called out on Twitter but I've muted the thread because it will steal too much of my peace. So infuriating.

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🔍 New on the blog: The Curious Case of the CSS Monochrome Media Query

https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2024/03/css-monochrome-media-query/

seaotta, to random
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So someone tagged me on LinkedIn saying my book inspired their most recent video...and then they proceed to link to two books by men instead of mine.

seaotta,
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@Meyerweb is burning down the internet an overreaction? Asking for me.

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New on the blog: My first two weeks at Igalia

https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2024/03/first-week-igalia/

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I got to try @jhey's Brick Yourself (https://brick-yourself.vercel.app/). I love that it nailed a Steel City shirt that I wasn't even wearing :) 🤘 Love it. Thanks @seaotta for reminding me of it.

seaotta,
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@bkardell tagging @jhey....that other account is an automatic imported one???

seaotta, to random
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Work computer: ordered ✅

seaotta, to random
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I got the job and I can't wait to share it with y'all 😭

seaotta, to random
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To my UK tech friends: would anyone be interested in the occasional evening out/group dinner with other tech friends somewhere relatively central or with a changing location that's still accessible by public transport?

Particularly an evening that is not necessarily centered around a conference.

seaotta, to random
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@w3c I just tried to view an editor's draft and this was the experience. Not sure where to report an issue.

seaotta,
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@w3c update: it appears base.css failed to load with a 520. It's working fine now but you can duplicate if you delete base.css. Would you like me to still file an issue?

seaotta, to random
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The last few months of uncertainty about what country I'll be living in and visa processes and moving my dog abroad have all been good and fun* but I'm finally settled and in need of a new job.

I bring 14 years of web design/UX and product management expertise to the table with a focus on developer experience & DevTools.

I'm open to FTE positions or freelance design projects.

1/2

seaotta,
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I do things like website audits to show you where you can improve your experience & keep customers returning to your site.

Don't have a design? I can do that too. I've built sites from the ground up, from 0 to 1 and my product management experience means I see how the experience fits into the broader company vision.

Interested or have a role? My DMs are open.

*It was really not good and fun and I'm glad to finally be settled.

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