Notices by Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (sarajw@front-end.social)

@andycarolan @binarydigit @maique it is good for people who can't or won't get their heads around CSS

@binarydigit @andycarolan @maique honestly it mostly looks like Tailwind to me, which has been all the rage for a while.

It's a library for CSS which is very flexible but somehow still the sites came out looking tailwindy. Like, using purple gradients on text was very popular...

I guess it's marginally better than the extreme standardisation when bootstrap was popular? Maybe?

@binarydigit @cory nooo :( AI is an awesome-sink

@binarydigit @hollie @cygnoir it won't be today probably 😅

But I can ping you when I get around to adding them?

@binarydigit @hollie @cygnoir Oooh. Does my site count? Definitely feeling the not posting enough guilt

I have been unusually tired for the last week, along with some gastro upsets, and it has suuuuucked.

Not really sick, but not really well, either.

Exhaustion, irritability, foggy brain, occasional dizzy spells.

I think I'm just out the other side. I hope. Must have been some virus?

It has been like drizzle - not proper rain, but just enough to ruin your days and make it so you can still work, but you can't go out and enjoy yourself.

Lol. I sometimes wonder how closely the German football fans sit next to their firework touch papers.

Heard a roar go up and then barely 10 seconds later the first bangs and crackles. Guess we equalised 😅 🎆

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

https://join.fastmail.com/5a7bc1e2

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

Day 1 of #CSSDay is over, I'm going to bed as all my spoons have been given away, but it's all good: I'm feeling full of heart and social battery.

Before going on stage I was boggling at the genius of @rebane2001's emulation of an x86 CPU in CSS (yup!), struggling to keep still, wishing my rational head would calm my heart.

I'm very thankful that I didn't embarrass myself, that I had a good time on stage, and that the nervous energy translated well into enthusiasm :)

My people. Thank you 💜

For anyone who was (and wasn't!) at The Web You Want:

A previously recorded video is available at https://2025.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/sara-joy including all the links from the slides, which you can find at https://slides.sarajoy.dev/whimsica11y/sotb2025

On my way through a wet Hamburg to get on a train to a likely wet Amsterdam 😅

Despite the rain I am very happy and full of healthy nervous excitement for https://the-web-you-want.org and @cssday!

LOL, the firstest of first world problems: since the conference is paying for this trip, I booked first class on the train (it wasn't even much more expensive than 2nd), and now the legroom between the seats is so big that I'm stretched out a bit too far to type comfortably on my laptop!

Ah, that was an ICE 4. Now on an ICE 3neo and it's a little comfier. Fancy.

I knew nothing about the model numbers but a colleague saw I had a train headrest behind me in the weekly meeting and started guessing what I was on... :D

Hello Amsterdam! ✖️✖️✖️

Happy Pride :BetterPrideHeart:

I am proud to stand with LGBTQIA+ people.

The video in the linked post is wonderful - everyone deserves to feel safe, and with a little outward hint, we can all help wind down the fear.

https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/116674000757237325

You'd think after a long weekend I might feel rested.

RE: https://writing.exchange/@alxd/116619868434426185

This is wonderful! Much nicer than the AI-generated line art I'm seeing used for colouring pages lately.

THANK YOU

@aesthr I had to look it up to understand and it's familiar that it's a thing, but not something I've ever had to deal with - everyone here uses WhatsApp or Signal so almost no-one cares what colour your chat bubbles are in iMessage.

... assuming that's what you meant!

Didn't get to watch #Eurovision this year. This sums up for me why the UK loses so badly:

"The UK is the best at music all around the world. You have the Beatles and everything. So this is not good enough."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy72e81dp28o

The voters *know* we can do better. Yet we rarely put our best foot forward. Established artists don't want the embarrassment of getting nul points (even if it's only because of geopolitics).

They sense that the British treat it as a joke, and respond accordingly.