It is 1996. I am hand coding HTML for a class. It is 2006. I am hand coding HTML for a job handling legacy material. It is 2016. I am hand coding HTML as a workaround for limitations of newer markup languages. It is 2026. I am hand coding HTML because it is the best tool for the job.

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

Ramadan Kareem, y’all

Why bother reading docs no one bothered to write?

Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower.com · 8mo ago

ai;dr AI; didn't read.

This absolute banger of a comment: "You can tell it's an anti-trans study because it's a study about trans people that's actually still funded"

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 8mo ago

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Hi, I'm pertussis, and these are my good friends, pneumonia and medical incompetence.

Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️@spahn711.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hi, I'm the center of a borderline EF-4 tornado. 🤷

I finished knitting the sweater that’s been my project for the past two months. I was between sizes so chose to go up, with the end result being a comfy, slouchy sweater.

I think about LJ from time to time, how much I miss it, how sadly it ended.

Bex is WEAK on crime@bextraordinary.bsky.social · 10mo ago

♥️

Next up in my reading queue: Find Me, by André Aciman. I read it twice when it came out but haven't touched it since. I'm curious to see how it reads from a much different place in life.

I've been out of work for two months. I've interviewed and been passed over. I've applied to jobs thoughtfully and by volume, tapped my networks, and pumped my contacts. I've renewed certifications, gained new ones, and thrown myself head first into AI. Nothing. It's hard not to feel like a relic.

Fellow holders of Canada PR and US citizenship, where are we risk-wise on crossing the border into the US these days? Is it still OK if you enter via a method with pre-clearance? Is it just a flat no-go? I'm weighing whether to visit my family for US Thanksgiving and would appreciate good knowledge.

Sup I’m a fox

I've got enough of a novel put together that I think it's worth talking to agents. I'm pretty sure I don't know any agents socially. Fellow writers with agents, do you have anyone you recommend for first time authors? @writerebony.bsky.social @leemandelo.bsky.social @ellenkushner.bsky.social

I did my first AI-driven interview last week. It was also my last. The market is brutal, but I will not sell any more pieces of my soul. www.thecut.com/article/job-...

The Job Search Has Become a Humiliation Ritual

“It feels like I’m trying to make my robots talk to their robots.”

thecut.com

I do developers docs in cloud native spaces, and I'm looking for work. If you need better docs for your project, let's chat.

Nerdy drag king name: Colonel Primitive

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

I'm finally able to access my LinkedIn account, so please feel free to connect with me. www.linkedin.com/in/scorleissen

I’m honored, I guess.

Bursting at the seams, feeling fine.

It is once again time to cherish this BlueSky feature: Settings > Moderation > Muted words & tags > <that name> + duration to not see <that name>

Went on a morning walk with my back-fence neighbour, picked up mail and gossip from the post office gal, flirted with the butcher, ate lunch at my local, waved hello and chatted with my downstairs neighbours while out and about. I love living in a village.

Summer Sons is one of the most unsettling books I've read in the past decade. I don't think I can say enough about how powerfully or how deeply it affected me. It's not perfect. The pacing bogs down in the middle, and you don't have to squint to see the bad guys coming a mile away. Read it anyway.

Lee Mandelo@leemandelo.bsky.social · last yr.

September’s here, and fall is the perfect season for reading spooky queer books… So why not pick up Summer Sons (southern gothic ft. gay codependency! grief! young men figuring out how to love each other! ghosts and cars and end-of-summer hot nights!)

This remains as true as it was when I wrote it.

Sarahtonin@corleissen.com · 2y ago

I review a lot of technical documentation from engineers who are non-native English speakers. Please hear me: the English you're struggling to write and feeling discouraged about is so much better than whatever ChatGPT produces. There is no replacement for your particular voice and skill.

No thank you; I'm misunderstood in enough of them, already.

Fey Earth@feyearth.bsky.social · last yr.

When I was younger if asked what super power I'd like I always said the powers of Colossus from x men. But as I get older I think the power I'd love to have is to be able to speak every language in the world. Imagine living in a world with no barriers to communication 🩷

Maybe don’t live in such a way that when you die, people act like Ewoks when the second Death Star explodes.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · last yr.

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89

Cleaning up to move on, found this in my "wins" folder. You were welcome. Thanks for saying so.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

/facepalm, but clever

Luke Hinds@lukehinds.bsky.social · last yr.

Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?" Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable" Manager: "What's the status of that?" Lead: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Lead: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

The last five minutes of Shine episode 2 have me in paroxysms. I could watch this scene again and again, it's so delicious.