Nostr notes by Sara Joy ☠️

Lovely little video of a chap (in Germany or somewhere German ...

2026-10-17T20:15:43Z

Lovely little video of a chap (in Germany or somewhere German speaking) dealing with people standing on the ridged lines used by cane using blind people:

[youtube.com/shorts/Ih1xF...](https://youtube.com/shorts/Ih1xFcB5Gak )

[Keep the guide rails unobstruc...](https://youtube.com/shorts/Ih1xFcB5Gak )

May I moan about the guy who is speaking loudly at length on the ...

2026-10-03T11:51:43Z

May I moan about the guy who is speaking loudly at length on the phone in the space between carriages, whose voice and the voice of the person on the other end is carrying loudly into the quiet carriage.

I can hear him through earplugs.

I can't stop my brain from trying to follow his conversation.

Had an excellent time at ...

2026-10-03T08:16:45Z

Had an excellent time at [@fronteers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:tdz43eumr7uxq52lbhmxyumk ) Dark Mode yesterday.

For an industry that feels uncertainly balanced on top of the AI bubble, and is collectively very tired of the topic - it helps so so so much to connect and bond with other humans.

We get by with a little help from our friends 💛

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2026-09-27T20:36:30Z

Our [@barryseconomics.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:ho3ldrop5hi2z4helsog2ent ) is bringing the message of hope again.

Just one person triggers the tipping point on a large social issue. We can affect people three degrees of separation away, people we'll never meet.

We can trust the maths - our small actions go a long way - just do something:

[Your Actions Ripple Further Th...](https://youtu.be/n_lgy337KiA )

My eldest is enjoying it, but it does require some description of ...

2026-09-14T16:49:10Z

My eldest is enjoying it, but it does require some description of context of various words and phrases - and it's sort of remarkable that a lot of the tech in the first H2G2 book exists today...

The guide is an ebook reader with lots of buttons.

Zaphod Beeblebrox was filmed by a circling drone.

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I used to have a close connection to the work of the RNLI - these ...

2026-09-08T10:24:18Z

I used to have a close connection to the work of the RNLI - these are wonderful people who are saving lives at sea. They also train UK lifeguards, of which I saw many this summer.

They're not very visible to those who don't live by the UK coastline, but they are a charity and welcome every penny.

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British fascists are attacking and doxxing the incredible volunteers of the RNLI. Donate now.

[Donate to the RNLI and help sa...](https://rnli.org/pages/ig/new/dual-one-off?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21684737164&gbraid=0AAAAADRoJzhCLA2y7XSDiERN9aB0fWsHI&gclid=CjwKCAjwwfnUBhAtEiwAfQpAYh6a_M3amnK79F0l8fSq9MIIXuwT6UCtYo33kiSyqGl7_ZhmqyPvnxoC1mMQAvD_BwE )

Just seen someone use 'nonce' casually to describe ...

2026-08-25T06:29:58Z

Just seen someone use 'nonce' casually to describe someone being not very clever.

This is British slang for a pedophile. Please know what you're saying about people when you say it.

Wtf where did "Cotton Eye Joe" just come from? Worst ...

2026-08-15T09:37:40Z

Wtf where did "Cotton Eye Joe" just come from? Worst earworm

Reposting to add ALT text and to salute the use of Weeley for Bin ...

2026-08-05T12:41:36Z

Reposting to add ALT text and to salute the use of Weeley for Bin HQ, and the pie chart!

"We have the votes to consume Reform" is followed by the chart where all other votes (31.6%) plus did-not-votes (41.3%) are the shape of Pacman at 72.9% of the pie. It's ready to chomp the 27.1% Reform wedge!

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My eldest (8) recently got a Monopoly game set and has been ...

2026-08-02T18:14:47Z

My eldest (8) recently got a Monopoly game set and has been enjoying learning how to play, and then ruthlessly beat me the first two times we played!

Finally today I managed to turn the tables and beat him, after a game that looked like it was going his way for the first half. Muahaaha.

I wrote a somewhat annoyed comment on a ...

2026-07-07T16:58:24Z

I wrote a somewhat annoyed comment on a [@fireship.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:q3bh47eesit3lfecni74vgtv ) video:

[youtube.com/watch?v=7B0y...](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7B0ydm64cV8&lc=UgwE3RT8_wqBlLVHn4p4AaABAg&si=HCRjwsAXKwNojEFa )

Getting tired of everything being done by "some guy" tbh.

I'll give TimBL a pass, though.

[The weird history of the inter...](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7B0ydm64cV8&lc=UgwE3RT8_wqBlLVHn4p4AaABAg&si=HCRjwsAXKwNojEFa )

People in the US can't understand why Europeans don't all ...

2026-07-03T11:16:04Z

People in the US can't understand why Europeans don't all have AC in the heat.

"Climate change is driving up temperatures around the world - but particularly in Europe. It is the fastest warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service."

Are live subtitling and image description powered by LLMs also ...

2026-07-01T17:14:29Z

Are live subtitling and image description powered by LLMs also considered generative AI?

Or can we separate them out as "descriptive" AI?

And another branch is "agentic" AI, right?

Or do they all overlap?

Descriptive AI is an accessibility win. Maybe agentic, too. Generative can get in the sea.

This is my ADHD story in a nutshell. Age 7, parents split up, ...

2026-06-20T18:26:39Z

This is my ADHD story in a nutshell.

Age 7, parents split up, moved countries.

Age 11+, made it through school, homework done last-minute the night before due.

Age 18+, university, unable to knuckle down to work.

Age ~40, parenting, COVID isolation, day job, kaboom!

youtube.com/shorts/bbWxb...

[The 3 ADHD life stages](https://youtube.com/shorts/bbWxbHshK_g )

Recently renewed my subscription to Fastmail and realised I can ...

2026-06-18T20:35:08Z

Recently renewed my subscription to Fastmail and realised I can offer 10% off to other people (ofc if you sign up I get a little kickback too, full disclosure etc.)

join.fastmail.com/5a7bc1e2

If you're trying to escape GMail, and you heard some problematic news about Proton - try @fastmail.com@bsky.brid.gy :)

[Create your Fastmail account](https://join.fastmail.com/5a7bc1e2 )

I'm so aware of being in a lefty web dev bubble that I named ...

2026-06-17T11:22:26Z

I'm so aware of being in a lefty web dev bubble that I named us the Inclusive Front. I LOVE us.

I find I dislike the vibe of the larger, more corporate web development events. They're too much for me.

I also feel like the divide is growing, and that it's not good.

It's not that people don't care.

I got all brave and gave my CSS Day talk to my colleagues (the ...

2026-06-16T11:01:12Z

I got all brave and gave my CSS Day talk to my colleagues (the interested ones, anyway) - somehow it's scarier?

Like, they all know me, and if I show myself up as a fool then I guess it has consequences?

Somehow the sea of faces at a conference is more anonymous and isolated from "real" life 😅

Sometimes I think I am a deeply unserious person. Please enjoy a ...

2026-06-11T20:25:44Z

Sometimes I think I am a deeply unserious person.

Please enjoy a video of me silently washing my hands using the shake, fold technique.

Yes, shaking them vigorously 12 times spritzed my face and glasses 😅

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note1td5…dq3y

One of my favourite TED talks, the shake-fold talk:

[youtu.be/2FMBSblpcrc](https://youtu.be/2FMBSblpcrc )

[How to use one paper towel | J...](https://youtu.be/2FMBSblpcrc )

One of my favourite TED talks, the shake-fold talk: ...

2026-06-10T09:06:25Z

One of my favourite TED talks, the shake-fold talk:

[youtu.be/2FMBSblpcrc](https://youtu.be/2FMBSblpcrc )

[How to use one paper towel | J...](https://youtu.be/2FMBSblpcrc )

A Renault Scenic passed me today, and it was almost singing. This ...

2026-06-08T07:01:53Z

A Renault Scenic passed me today, and it was almost singing.

This is the internet - is there a website yet of the sounds these EVs make at slow speeds, in lieu of engine noises?

When you buy an EV can you choose how it sounds, or are they hard-coded?

Really good discussion on the booed AI commencement speech by ...

2026-06-02T10:14:18Z

Really good discussion on the booed AI commencement speech by Eric Schmidt.

[youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY](https://youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY )

["But it happened."](https://youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY )

How long until AI tokens are expensive enough that people start ...

2026-05-12T21:23:36Z

How long until AI tokens are expensive enough that people start hiring human LLM replacements?

Petition to call these newly re-embraced employees "squishy Claude".

Eventually we'll be back to hiring juniors again. I hope.

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2026-05-05T17:22:19Z

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I hadn't reposted @npub1gv7…yqz6's writing yet, because ...

2026-04-27T17:43:04Z

I hadn't reposted Ky (npub1gv7…yqz6)'s writing yet, because it was doing laps around my feed already 💜

So many clever people I admire, who do such good work, are really resonating with this.

Things feel so heavy right now for those of us who care and want the web to be safe, inclusive and accessible.

1/4

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Printing stickeeerrrsss RE: ...

2026-04-25T18:51:18Z

Printing stickeeerrrsss

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note1k3a…zls5

Starting to think this might actually be a good name for the people I like to hang out with in the web industry.

The web standards, accessibility, performance, CSS people. You know who you are.

We form the Inclusive Front of the web.

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Starting to think this might actually be a good name for the ...

2026-04-22T20:50:02Z

Starting to think this might actually be a good name for the people I like to hang out with in the web industry.

The web standards, accessibility, performance, CSS people. You know who you are.

We form the Inclusive Front of the web.

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To amuse emus on warm summer nights Kiwis do wiwis from ...

2026-04-20T14:17:08Z

To amuse
emus
on warm summer nights

Kiwis
do wiwis
from spectacular heights.

- Roger McGough

Got my #MolaCult shirt today! I had to have it, couldn't ...

2026-04-16T17:56:00Z

Got my #MolaCult shirt today!

I had to have it, couldn't resist the slogan 😆

Thanks [@hankgreen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:kqbyr4gqt6p2l57htlsa4nha ) 💙
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Quick front end question: How often have you seen elaborate ...

2026-04-13T09:36:15Z

Quick front end question:

How often have you seen elaborate mid-sentence CSS flex and gap or padding styling within React apps, when all that's missing is what I'm calling a "React space": {' '} ?

Enjoyed a few days of moon joy. Now I'm back to earth doom. ...

2026-04-07T19:10:31Z

Enjoyed a few days of moon joy.

Now I'm back to earth doom.

Actually not sure if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight.

The Web Platform Baseline ...

2026-04-07T12:53:29Z

The Web Platform Baseline ([web.dev/baseline](https://web.dev/baseline )) gives a rough indicator on how long web platform features have been available across the "main" browsers.

"Newly available" means that the latest versions of these browsers now support a given feature.

"Widely available" means the above plus 30 months.

The #NoKings protests are not useless. Growing solidarity is ...

2026-03-28T14:22:43Z

The #NoKings protests are not useless.

Growing solidarity is important. Feeling empowered by how many of you there are is important. Bringing together like minded people to spark organising is important.

Find someone with a clipboard and sign up to do something concrete towards a better future 💚

Looking for book recommendations for a precocious 8 year old ...

2026-03-21T20:15:13Z

Looking for book recommendations for a precocious 8 year old reader who we got started on [@philipreeve.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:gqgojm5le7pw6cj243qsutyj ) - first Adventuremice but since has also devoured Railhead and is onto the Mortal Engines books!

I think Sci-Fi is becoming his thing...

Ideally books without swearing or sex please!

Ohhhh. Just looked up the time cards that appear on various ...

2026-03-15T12:44:31Z

Ohhhh. Just looked up the time cards that appear on various Youtube videos because I finally realised the same things popped in lots of places.

So, I never watched much SpongeBob...

[spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/List_of...](https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_time_cards )

[List of time cards](https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_time_cards )

This feels like a good way for the AI bubble to burst - people ...

2026-03-13T17:09:56Z

This feels like a good way for the AI bubble to burst - people get to keep their useful pet oracles and stop paying and giving their data to the oligarchs:

[youtu.be/YTLnnoZPALI](https://youtu.be/YTLnnoZPALI )

[How AI Will Fail Like The Musi...](https://youtu.be/YTLnnoZPALI )

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2026-02-17T12:16:20Z

Continvouc Intorgration and Continvouc Derlivory/Deplorgement

LOL love how a little 'ist' snuck in there. I used to ...

2026-01-30T18:41:06Z

LOL love how a little 'ist' snuck in there.

I used to have English, Swedish and German all live as spell check and autocomplete on my smartphone keyboard at once, but it got confused as heck.

I now have both English and German on at once, and switch into Swedish only when needed.

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A contact of mine's wife has benefitted from my complaint ...

2026-01-18T11:45:54Z

A contact of mine's wife has benefitted from my complaint about how (peri)menopause can make histamines in the body go nuts, likely being the problem I currently have, being allergic to who-knows-what all year round.

She has come off HRT and started taking antihistamines and is feeling much better.

Hello European coffee aficionados - we use a Hario V60 dripper ...

2025-12-26T09:31:58Z

Hello European coffee aficionados - we use a Hario V60 dripper which takes those pointy filters.

Is there something special about the Hario brand filters, or do you use others that are just as good, and don't have to travel all the way from Japan to Europe?

Love bookmarks. Save post links. Watch later. I can pretend ...

2025-12-19T19:20:39Z

Love bookmarks. Save post links. Watch later. I can pretend I'll look another time and forget about it without guilt, byeeee

The people who were up in arms about "cancel culture" ...

2025-12-13T13:33:41Z

The people who were up in arms about "cancel culture" when the people being de-platformed were bigots, are the same as those celebrating the cancellation of folks who believe in equality and rights for all.

So much hypocrisy.

The tolerance paradox got us. We were too tolerant of the intolerant.

OK really? I've been trying to figure out what the eff I ...

2025-12-11T08:42:18Z

OK really? I've been trying to figure out what the eff I could be allergic to for over a year, and apparently perimenopause can mess with histamines in the body? Am I just allergic to the oncoming change?!

Feels daft to be in DECEMBER, weaning myself off antihistamines and having sneeze-attacks!

OK so - I went down the rabbit hole and decided to spend some ...

2025-12-08T10:16:57Z

OK so - I went down the rabbit hole and decided to spend some more (...more than double. Oops.) to be sure the brightness wouldn't be disappointing and remained usable when the room isn't completely darkened, or when I want the projector further away from a surface in order to get a bigger image.

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note1feg…nx36

Are any of those little LED projectors that cost around €100 actually any good?

Ideally ones available in Europe, on not-Amazon (for me that probably means at MediaMarkt or Saturn).

Or are they all rubbish? I am no audioviz enthusiast so I mean, passable quality is OK with me!

Are any of those little LED projectors that cost around €100 ...

2025-11-23T21:59:38Z

Are any of those little LED projectors that cost around €100 actually any good?

Ideally ones available in Europe, on not-Amazon (for me that probably means at MediaMarkt or Saturn).

Or are they all rubbish? I am no audioviz enthusiast so I mean, passable quality is OK with me!

Keith asked a nice question, and then I accidentally threaded. ...

2025-11-17T13:32:11Z

Keith asked a nice question, and then I accidentally threaded. Oops.

I do feel sometimes that being a developer should be a perfect part-time job for a mum working from home - other times I feel like I just don't have the time to really sink in and think deeply and thoroughly about my work.

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Does anyone have knowledge or ideas about what would happen to ...

2025-10-19T09:59:05Z

Does anyone have knowledge or ideas about what would happen to all these compute/data centers if and when the AI bubble goes pop?

Will the money to run them disappear? Or will they keep on, still somehow finding reasons to use up all that energy and water the world can scarce afford?

Meta meta shower thought: It feels big and clever to use the word ...

2025-09-30T19:56:02Z

Meta meta shower thought:

It feels big and clever to use the word "meta" but "shower shower thought thought" would have been funnier

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note15hz…67fy

Meta shower thought:

Do we have shower thoughts because that's the only time we're not able to keep ourselves distracted with other stuff?

Meta shower thought: Do we have shower thoughts because ...

2025-09-30T19:45:42Z

Meta shower thought:

Do we have shower thoughts because that's the only time we're not able to keep ourselves distracted with other stuff?

I would like it very much if the Google Authenticator panels were ...

2025-09-25T05:55:28Z

I would like it very much if the Google Authenticator panels were not nearly so sensitive to vertical movement on press-and-hold.

I very rarely rearrange them but I very very often want to copy the number. Takes me several goes to get the copy, instead of it trying to jiggle up and down.

The latest Meta AI steak sauce debacle should be a nice case of ...

2025-09-18T20:59:45Z

The latest Meta AI steak sauce debacle should be a nice case of schadenfreude, but my schadenfreude circuits are fried.

So very much painfully embarrassing and shameful and even comical stuff is being said and done by arseholes who remain rich and powerful.

There's no glee for me in their shame.

Hey fellow frontendlers - I spend a lot of time on my phone. Too ...

2025-08-15T16:32:21Z

Hey fellow frontendlers -

I spend a lot of time on my phone. Too much tbh - but I can't always grab my laptop.

I want to be able to mess with HTML and CSS comfortably while on my phone, and see quick results.

Codepen app doesn't do that. The web version is hard to control on a phone.

Any ideas?

PSA: Just do two trips. Or don't stack stuff as high. ...

2025-08-10T16:14:06Z

PSA:

Just do two trips. Or don't stack stuff as high.

"This looks/feels precarious, something will break if it falls."

Then don't. You'll feel dumb when it does fall and does break.

End PSA.

Just got a mental image of the people at OpenAI typing prompt ...

2025-08-09T17:53:12Z

Just got a mental image of the people at OpenAI typing prompt after prompt after prompt into ChatGPT with gritted teeth:

"I have been prompting it to improve, pull itself up by its bootstraps, learn more, hallucinate less, I guess we're a-go for version 5 - I mean, it is telling me it's smarter?"

So @npub10xe…2ysy's posting about elder millennials has me ...

2025-07-12T09:36:43Z

So Luke Ontario (npub10xe…2ysy)'s posting about elder millennials has me playing with the "Cool S" again - and off I went into the alphabet (yes, the S within is not actually the 'cool' one).

When you're trying to work with a 2*3 grid, you have to make compromises, hahah.

...I used to do this a lot.
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It's the same on Mastodon - then follow more people, you ...

2025-06-12T14:54:26Z

It's the same on Mastodon - then follow more people, you deposits

(Lol tried to write 'dipshits' but I've decided deposit is an excellent insult)

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It took becoming a mother to two little boys who can now both pee ...

2025-06-01T18:47:40Z

It took becoming a mother to two little boys who can now both pee standing up, and often feel urgency at the same time, to understand there may have been another layer to the "Don't cross the streams!" business in Ghostbusters.

Oh joy. Local football team just won a match that puts them back ...

2025-05-10T20:45:16Z

Oh joy. Local football team just won a match that puts them back into the top league.

The drunken singing in usually peaceful suburbia may go long tonight.

So @npub1jpy…yfwv is also me, the Mastodon version of me. ...

2024-11-20T12:34:51Z

So Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (npub1jpy…yfwv) is also me, the Mastodon version of me.

It's using [@ap.brid.gy](https://ap.brid.gy/ap.brid.gy ) - I don't know if anyone would really want to follow both mes from here (they're very similar, I should know) - but now you can if you want.