Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

@ginsterbusch@mastodon.art Yeah, no, uh, I was that myself for years, and I know a bunch of very accomplished front-end devs. There's a lot of technical knowledge and skill involved. I think the problem here is actually more a matter of hiring back-end folks and dumping them into front-end positions with no training.

"I'm trying to get these two things (a translated string, and then a link, forming a sentence together) to display side-by-side, I'm using flexbox but [other dev] thought there might be a better way?"

..Yes, yes there is. :| :| :|

@bea YES. :| :| :|

I was very polite in the chat, so now I have to snark here. ^.^:

MFW when I, a UX designer, have to explain inline vs. block elements to a front-end dev who's been here for over a year. :| :| :|

@typhlosion Well, you know what they say about topologists.

A topologist is a person who can't tell their ass from a hole in the ground, but CAN tell their ass from two holes in the ground. ;)

@typhlosion *takes your donut, hands back a coffee cup* Better?

@literorrery I appreciate the acknowledgement. FWIW you did me a fair amount of good too; you were more enthusiastic than _I_ was about using neutral pronouns for me for a bit. I flailed around a LOT, I can't exactly fault anyone else for their own flailing. ;)

Which is basically how I feel about the linked site when it comes to gender stuff in general.

If ONLY I'd run across this when first having gender feelings, rather than so much way-binarist trans stuff, way-too-much-of-both genderfuck stuff, and way-too-nebulous neutrois stuff.

Dunno if it would've gotten things rolling any faster, but having resources and symbols and not feeling like the only one is a Very Important Thing.

There's so much awesome stuff here; it also includes the oldest example I can find of the Gender Diamond diagram which I came up with independently like 10 years later, thinking I was being terribly original, and also this is what got me reading Bone Dance, a novel that hits on so many of my personal meaning buttons that it's baffling and frustrating that I didn't read it until 2013 or so.

Speaking of the Necker Cube and gender stuff, I want ti highlight what's the oldest attested example of this online, now only available via the internet archive (CW for frank discussion of slurs, and also outdated terminology, because it's from 1996):

http://web.archive.org/web/19990508025838/http://www.chaparraltree.com:80/raq/

@typhlosion This is the kind of thinking that leads to Perl programming. ;)

@typhlosion I will 100% back up your Atom use, it is great and has changed my life. :D

Oh gods my boss found out and forwarded the email to the rest of the team, people are congratulating me, uuuuugh. >.<

(To be clear, I did not ASK for this, I helped write a thing and my boss at the time was a very "is this good for the company" type who was really gung-ho about folks getting patents)

@CharlotteOfOz@mastodon.social Yeah, believe me, I did not ask for this, it got foisted upon me by a very 'is this good for the company' ex-boss.

Ugh, gross, there is now officially a software patent with my name on it.

Who should I donate money to as penance?

@neonNeptunian Seriously, have been planning to get you one of those for roughly years, I just kept being indecisive on which one!

@neonNeptunian Dangit, there goes my next Glowtide gift idea. ;)