Estelle Weyl

Open-source. Front-end. Technical writing, teaching, speaking & conference organizing. I read the specs so you don't have to. #BlackLivesMatter she/her

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2024-11-06 17:52:27

Signal has no ads, no trackers, no surveillance.
It is time to install it.
It is a nonprofit
It is time to donate.
https://signal.org/donate/
Donating to Signal helps pay for the servers, bandwidth, and ongoing development to ensure that Signal remains available to the millions of people around the world who count on it to protect their privacy.

2024-10-12 19:05:39

the JD Vance Dossier is at https://www.kenklippenstein.com/api/v1/file/fc39e78d-f510-4918-935b-95701be97310.pdf
His address is blocked out, so there is no reason that X needed to block it, other than Musk doing everything in his power to ensure Trump wins.
Free speech absolutionist? My ass!

2024-09-19 22:23:16

Love to see it.
Wall St. reached record highs today.
DJT drops 7.5% during the day and after closing, and is near its record low for the year.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/166/544/009/109/713/original/22016834406324e3.png

2024-07-12 16:50:00

A must watch for all USA peeps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s

2024-07-04 04:04:19

Me: For my half birthday, at 55.5, I got my period.
Amie: That's how you know god is a man.

2024-07-01 16:48:34

Would Nixon have been insulated from prosecution for Watergate today?

2024-06-14 05:00:01

If you use MDN web docs as a resource, consider contributing to the @npub1zyr…x7th open source project that maintains it.
https://openwebdocs.org

2024-04-22 23:01:24

Cecil Williams walked the walk.
We lost a legend today.
May he rest in power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Williams_(pastor)

2024-04-03 19:57:23

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2024-03-28 19:34:26

The MAGA bible is just a money laundering scheme. It enables churches to fund DJT's campaign without "contributing" or "participating" in politics.
It's time to tax churches.

2024-03-26 05:43:50

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2024-03-13 01:26:06

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@npub1c35…9pmh @npub19kd…4jdw @npub1p9k…a6fg @npub1804…ut22
Double them up, and they're the same size as a step.
I use O'Reilly books as a ladder extender (or stair extender?) when I have to replace the lightbulb in the sconce above my stairs!
Either 2 copies of CSSTDG or 6 copies of Mobile HTML5. :D

2024-02-23 05:00:09

Today, we sat in the sun, then went to her 2nd favorite park to sniff things one last time. Tomorrow I'll carry her down the cliffs at Fort Funston so she can roll in whatever gross things she still has the energy for.
When we get home, I'll turn the heat, give her a last bath so she can pass with dignity, and then struggle with her until we say goodbye on Saturday.
Keep us in your thoughts. This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
I'm bawling. She's consoling me. She doesn't know why.

2024-02-13 23:23:27

OH: "I had one interviewee say he never made mistakes. When they hired him despite my recommendation against it, he was a blame cannon, firing off at anyone who ever questioned him about how everyone else made the mistakes rather than him. Within a year, the entire team had quit."
Pro tip: If your team member with the most social acuity says no to a suggested hire, listen to her. yes, her.

2024-02-05 06:21:35

My mom, a transphobe, thinks "Trans people should just stop talking about being trans." She thinks it was a non-issue and now Trans people are in everyone's mentions.
I asked her to tell me who she hears talking about trans issues. Is it trans people, or is ... and listed the groups doing the talking: all people and orgs trying to take away trans rights.
It was easy to point out that trans people just want to live their lives. Trans people are not the problem!
Now to convince 333M others.

2024-02-05 02:47:52

Trader Joe's is suing to destroy worker rights for EVERYONE, not just the TJ workforce.
They're arguing that the NLRB is unconstitutional, and plan on taking their anti-worker stance to the anti-worker US supreme court.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/02/trader-joes-argues-national-labor-relations-board-is-unconstitutional-and-other-labor-news/
Fuck!
I hate capitalism.
I loved TJs.
Past tense, now.
Ugh.

2024-01-26 18:01:16

If you have been sleeping better at night since Jan 2021, but don't know how to express why you can other than "because Trump is out of office", this is worth a read. Puts into words what you have been sensing but may not actually know:
https://steady.substack.com/p/quietly-fixing-the-mess

2024-01-23 18:08:31

That feeling when you start a concern with "I am walking on eggshells," and the response is the equivalent of "Let me squash all of those for you."

2024-01-15 22:52:45

Elon doesn’t get to own the letter X. That name is Malcolm’s. It can’t be appropriated by Elon’s racist and sexist cesspool.

2024-01-11 15:25:47

They need to put all that energy they've been wasting on the non-existent shoplifting from national chain stores onto the very real wage theft perpetrated by those chain stores.
Yes, some very real crimes are happening in corporate America, but it's the corporations themselves committing the largest financial crimes. Want to reduce the $ lost to crime? Go after corporations. They're responsible for the majority of criminal financial losses in the USA. Let's focus on that.

2024-01-10 18:29:34

Why are GOP men against abortion? They want a supply of poor and undereducated laborers they can underpay and otherwise exploit.
An Indiana Republican has filed a bill that would allow kids as young as 14 to drop out and work on corporate farms during school hours. Kids would only need to complete 8th grade in order to work 40 hours a week as a farm laborer.
https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1062/HB1062.01.INTR.pdf
They don't care about kids, just corporate profits.

2024-01-09 07:58:29

Looking at the COVID sewer stats. COVID levels in the USA, or at least in the SFBay area, are higher than they've ever been. Higher than their 2020 and 2021 and 2022 peaks.
https://soe-wbe-pilot.wl.r.appspot.com/charts#page=overview
(move both sliders all the way to the right)
Wear a mask. It's literally the least and most you can do.
If you don't feel well, test. And test again. If you don't test, stay the fuck home. It's not just "be kind", it's "Don't be an asshole" level basics.

2023-12-18 02:09:16

Just saw a post on Mastodon from a holier-than-thou faux-feminist douche bro reaming developer for still being on Twitter. This is the same douche-canoe who reamed me a new asshole in a private channel, just 3 months ago, simply for saying I was disappointed in people who were still on Twitter. Three months ago he chose the Twitter hill to die on, and now he is being a holier-than-thou twat. Admittedly, he has always been a holier-than-thou twat.
I bet all of front-end.social knows who it is.

2023-12-04 17:40:46

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2023-11-05 02:06:17

It was so dark at 6and tomorrow it will be even darker at 5. This in NOT the most wonderful time of the year

2023-10-21 00:33:28

i can go to IKEA 10 miles away, 36 minutes away, with a $6 toll, or I can go to IKEA 30 miles away, 39 minutes away, with no toll, or, I can sit on my couch and not go anywhere.

2023-10-19 18:03:14

Pro tip: clean your glasses.

2023-09-14 19:13:30

New Brunswick has a new law that disallows teachers from calling students by their chosen name without parental consent.
Does that mean Frederick will have to get permission to be called Fred?
Does that mean teachers will actually learn how to pronounce names like Qiang Wang, in the right order, instead of an unwanted anglicized nickname?
No and no. The law is transphobic. It's about imposing abusive morality. It has absolutely nothing to do with parental rights.

2023-09-11 15:29:06

Since the industrial revolution, industry has not been responsible for the side effects of their products. They are able to be profitable because it's future generations that will have to foot the bill for handling the waste and the side effects of that waste.
Current generations are footing the bill for some past industry behaviors, but the worst is yet to come. And we see it coming. But in the name of profits, we're doing virtually nothing about it.
All in the name of capitalism.

2023-09-07 14:24:04

Normalize talking about about income, menstruation, mental health, and everything.
Shameful , aka “taboo”, topics are a form of control; a way to keep people in their place.
Shame benefits the patriarchy and the predator class. That’s why calling it what it is — the white supremacacist capitalist patriarchy— is proscribed as well.
Normalize it all

2023-08-23 23:27:21

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court determined transgender youth and adults are NOT entitled to medication because puberty blockers and other treatments are not "deeply rooted in this nation’s history and traditions"
I don't think Latisse, Viagra, Rogaine, or even Flomax, are either. If we're using this logic to disallow trans treatments, we must also disallow treatments for acne, erectile dysfunction, excessive sweating, eyelash growth, wrinkles, hair loss, hyperkeratosis, rosacea & skin discoloration

2023-08-13 18:49:26

I bought fresh goat cheese two weeks ago.
I was planning on having some for lunch today. It's not in the fridge.
I am unsure when or where I will find it, but as much as I was looking forward to my watermelon, goat cheese, and rocket salad with a balsamic reduction, I am NOT looking forward to unexpectedly encountering a pile of mold in a few days, weeks, months, or ????

2023-08-10 19:06:24

I bought tickets at Costco for Cirque. To access the tickets, I have to go to Ticketmaster. While I have successfully avoided using ticketmaster.com for over 10 years, I logged in. Nope, I can't access my tickets. I need Ticketmaster on a phone to attend an event I paid for. There is no way I am installing anything Ticketmaster related on any device, much less a personal device. Contacted support. That's a whole other ordeal. Monopolies are bad for everyone except shareholders.
#capitalism

2023-08-08 01:05:34

Google cut the contracts of staffers working on AI who were trying to unionize. More than 70% of the proposed union bargaining unit — made up of 118 writers, graphic designers and launch coordinators — were told in July that they will lose their jobs, according to a filing with the National Labor Relations Board.
Remember "Do no evil"?

2023-08-01 17:43:15

I wrote a thing:
Build a menstrual cycle tracker PWA
https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/cycletracker/
Learn how to build a progressive web application while building a secure, private, and practical application. When you control your code, you can control your personal data.
It's about another thing I wrote (with help from @npub1ndh…5p6c):
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Tutorials/CycleTracker
An introductory-level tutorial on building a PWA to help you track your menstrual cycle.
Thanks to @npub1zyr…x7th for making this possible!

2023-07-20 14:59:46

If you are registered to vote in #Ohio, please #Vote. Vote no on issue 1. Don't let the NRA and misogynists take your voice away.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/27/what-is-ohio-issue-1-on-the-ballot-in-august-2023/70359953007/

2023-07-14 22:31:03

It's likely been in your timeline already, but since I have been away from Mastodon for a few days..... https://www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/vc-qanon/

2023-07-05 18:38:11

"I joined Microsoft to get rid of Internet Explorer and I am happy to say I managed to achieve this goal." And I thought he joined because Mozilla got rid of him for sexually harassing his co-workers and Microsoft didn't know his history as a serial sexual harasser.
I see the ego has gotten even bigger. Who knew that was even possible?
Good luck #WeAreDevelopers
with your new hire. Just keep him away from any women entering the speaking field. They haven't been warned yet.

2023-07-02 18:02:20

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@npub13q3…hr6l I think it's Browser Stack that counts time - they used to give you 30 minutes of service free, then you had to upgrade. Not 100% sure if that is still the case.
Another good trial method is free tier being time-limited every visit I.e., each time you use Bloop you get 15 minutes free, that's it. That works well the first several times you use it for the limited functionality you initially needed, but as you use it more you learn it and need it, so you want to upgrade to stay on

2023-06-22 23:43:25

A fishing boat carrying 750 people sank 50 miles off Pylos in southern Greece. 78 died. 500 are still missing (and likely dead). Before sinking, many ships passed the disabled boat. No one helped.
A sub carrying 5 people disappeared miles underwater, hundreds of miles from land. Several ships and countries searched 900 square miles for days.
750 people v. 5 people.
zero effort v. every paper's top headline.
Why the difference in effort and reporting?
"Some people are more equal than others."

2023-06-12 16:52:00

Remember how "To Catch a Predator "was canceled because they kept catching off- (and on-) duty police officers?
The entire West Virginia State Police Department is under investigation for sexual misconduct: https://www.wtrf.com/west-virginia-state-police-investigation/west-virginia-state-police-investigation-10-more-minors-42-more-women-in-total-to-sue-west-virginia-state-police-over-hidden-cameras/
Predators intentionally put themselves in positions of power. The "manly" ones as coaches, the "gentile" as teachers or priests, the grand wizard ones as politicians, and the most violent and racist ones as cops. #ACAB

2023-06-11 16:40:16

Banning drag queen story hour is basically telling people what they can and can't wear when reading a book; after they've banned the books that are worth reading.

2023-06-08 16:03:24

Pat Robertson is dead.
Happy Pride Month!

2023-05-29 14:33:44

In the USA, first you can buy a gun, then you can drive, then you can die for your country, then you can vote, then you can drink, then you are old enough to CSS.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/110/452/452/488/915/355/original/9c302a37d0200aeb.png

2023-05-22 13:37:01

Today the <blink> element was officially removed from MDN.
https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/26904
It was an awful element, but, oh, so many memories.
#HTML

2023-05-17 22:41:03

Do not organize conferences in Florida. After July 1, 2023, your #transgender attendees will not be legally allowed to use public restrooms.
Organizing a conference in #Florida puts all your attendees, not just your trans guests, at physical, emotional, and legal risk.

2023-05-07 17:48:11

Is anyone else going to be in person at Google i/o this year?
#googleio

2023-04-27 16:52:01

I don't know if anyone knows anyone at the Washington post, but their responsive site isn't working in WIDE mode.
#washingtonpost #wapo
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