kir5ty / is on Nostr

I'm a new Cyber Security Engineer at the Financial Times and textile enthusiast. #ActuallyAustic and late diagnosed.

Last Notes

2024-10-16 09:49:29

I got lucky and snagged a last minute FFConf ticket through work. Who else is going? Let's get seaside chips.

2024-09-15 11:14:58

Only went and got married
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/141/276/829/656/158/original/64e87060d2545a25.mp4

2024-09-11 08:33:52

Mabel, who I still love with all my heart despite this fresh challenge, has developed a penchant for climbing into the toilet and dipping her paws in the water. I know the obvious solution is to keep the lid down and we're trying to but whyyyyy is she doing this, what a scrote.

2024-08-01 20:08:01

We bought a bed for the cat. She is utterly terrified of it. This is a step up from the indifference I was worrying about. She hasn't looked relaxed since we unpacked it :(

2024-08-01 09:27:11

I am speaking to more than four people at a time in 30mins. Helpfully my brain has put me into "pinwheel of doom" mode and I look forward to the moment it ends when I can think of other things. Any other thing!

2024-06-15 11:17:02

I'm supposed to be going out but I haven't had a nothing day in ages so today will be a nothing day. Was hoping for a walk in the sun but doesn't seem an option in London today. This is a real three-wheeler summer we've got going on atm.

2024-05-31 09:54:16

- reply

@npub1lkp…u7d2 The rest of my outfit is extremely not white! Just wanted a little something. It'll be the last white thing I ever knit, I can tell you...

2024-05-31 09:30:24

- reply

@npub1lkp…u7d2 I'm doing a fingering weight cardigan for my wedding. Misery. It's so dull to look at white all the time too! Solidarity.

2024-03-19 10:13:47

Seriously has anyone found a way to be a consistent friend when you're ND? I know so many nice people. Sometimes I get lonely. I do not contact these people and on the rare occasions I do I struggle to keep up with messages. I've been like this forever and I would like to not be. How do you do it?!

2024-03-04 12:54:21

Is anyone out there experienced in wool dyeing? I'm knitting myself a white cardigan for my wedding in case it gets nippy but I am a mucky pup and will absolutely get sauce of some kind on it if I keep it white after the big day. I've been looking at Jacquard acid dyes - are they good? #knitting

2024-03-04 09:55:08

Will any of you be at Patterns day this week? I am ^_^

2024-01-31 11:05:54

Since I am realising probably too late that I'm a through-and-through front-end person I'm going to treat myself to a trip to Indie Web Camp this year.

2024-01-24 14:50:43

Spoke to a guy outside just now reading and he said he wants more sci-fi books. I've got a few Le Guin and Delany kicking around that I can give to him. Nothing new though. Any tips for good sci-fi novels from the last ten years? No Three Body Problem please, got on my nerves that did.

2024-01-19 15:42:08

Please, if you write documentation of any kind, forget you ever knew the words foo, bar or baz.

2024-01-18 08:19:05

- reply

@npub1qjr…kgt0 it is Jamieson and Son Shetland Spindrift. 100% Shetland sheep wool I believe

2024-01-17 18:54:05

I’ve spent some time adding to the list of links on my personal site. I think it’ll be especially interesting to #knitting mastodon. https://kirsty.website/links/

2024-01-16 12:59:02

I’m using a fair isle pattern but replacing loads of the colours. I don’t know why I thought this would be relatively trivial. I’m just trying to include as much green as possible. I’m duplicate stitching new colours in to test them without knitting a new swatch because I’m lazy #knitting
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/111/765/737/567/296/768/original/914e70f33270d9ef.png