Estelle Weyl

Open-source front-end technical writing, teaching, speaking & conference organizing. I read the specs so you don't have to. Now: Lyon, Was: San Francisco #BlackLivesMatter she/her

Personal page: https://estelle.github.io
Github: https://github.com/estelle
Codepen: https://codepen.io/estelle

Last Notes

2026-10-19 17:19:14 UTC

A few US-based people have reached out, concerned about the "violence" in France.
It's important to realize that French citizens have rights because they are never satisfied, and they protest.
Americans are losing rights because the status quo is "it's the freest country in the world," and they'll go to a no-kings march if it lands on the weekend, the weather is good, and they have no other plans.
Convincing people everything is "exceptional" leads to complacency.
Complaints lead to action.

2026-10-16 14:19:38 UTC

Please let the Tesla fan bois know, before they put their deposit on the Roadster, that Tesla never paid back the $ 1,000 deposits it took from over 60,000 homeowners for Tesla solar roofs that never materialized
Putting a deposit for any Musk product is basically giving the world's wealthiest scam artist an open-ended, interest-free loan.

2026-09-03 19:44:03 UTC

"Pregnant people" or "pregnant persons" instead of "pregnant women" is repugnant to fascists, not because it is inclusive of trans people, but because the words are humanizing. They don't want to be reminded that women are actually people.

2025-08-25 07:12:17 UTC

“In every relationship, there’s one person who loads the dishwasher like a Scandinavian architect, and one who loads it like a raccoon on meth.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/how-to-load-dishwasher/682425/
Loading the dishwasher, packing groceries, etc., is just live action tetris.

2025-05-02 04:58:52 UTC

I don't understand this obsession with gendered bathrooms. We are all just going to private stalls to relieve ourselves.
Not sure why it matters what my or your genitalia look like if no one (including the person defecating in the other 75% of relief experiences) is going to see it while I am/ they are in there, and certainly no one is going to see our birth certificate gender marker while in there, so, really, WTF is up with this obsession?

2025-03-11 23:40:18 UTC

Someone once suggested saying "Potato" instead of "Hello" when answering the phone for numbers not in their contact list.
It works!
I have been doing that for about four months, and not a single machine / robo-dialer has known how to handle it.
I'll change to Tomato once they figure out this One Nifty Tric

2025-01-30 03:57:30 UTC

My mother, like the prez, has narcissistic personality disorder. People with NPD are never, ever satisfied.
The lesson I learned and want to share is to never give an inch. It is impossible to appease the unappeasable. There is no use trying, especially if you have to give up your mores and values to do so.
Industry leaders will hopefully learn this quickly. They have all bent the knee and kissed the ring. What they don't realize is the appeasement is always very, very temporary.

2025-01-15 21:45:07 UTC

Undocumented workers may have lost their life savings in the LA fire. Laws require proof of citizenship to bank in the USA. Without access to savings accounts, if their homes burned, their "under the mattress" burned along with it. They generally aren't able to access aid; and with Trump taking office on Monday, they likely won't even try if they could. Devestating.

2025-01-10 01:19:16 UTC

today was a day.
https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/guy-weyl

2024-12-11 20:34:49 UTC

Insurance is not health care.
The media needs to stop referring to Brian Thompson as a healthcare executive. He was an insurance executive; a corporate exec in a capitalist society.
Denying health promotion and disease prevention care is the antithesis of healthcare.

2024-11-06 17:52:27 UTC

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.

2024-10-11 21:35:07 UTC

Happy National Coming Out day.
Be proud of who you are and don't let anyone squash your joy;
Your joy will bring joy to others. Share it loud and proud. Always remember: your joy makes the world a happier place! Keep making yourself and the rest of the world happier.

2024-09-13 19:01:31 UTC

From a Bumper sticker:
Voting is like driving.
D is to go forward.
R is to go back.