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• Post #3381033

  Here’s a thought on the current heatwave that is absolutely destroying humankind across Europe atm: maybe we should push for a regulation to allow people — ALL people — to stop working in temperatures above 30C. The economy would collapse and finally politicians would take fighting the climate crisis as a priority, rather than leaning into the bullshit narrative that “summer is summer” from their air-conditioned ivory towers.

• Post #1631137

  I was in a design systems meeting with the CTO and a couple of the developers yesterday and I was.. just given ownership of the component library & design system which is literally like.. my dream. What do you mean I get to sort things and find inconsistencies and, like, fix them?!?!???

• Post #1631136

  I'm... so tired. I'm so tired lately that it took me weeks to decide whether or not I want to be in Berlin for my birthday weekend, even though I'd been entertaining this idea for the last year 😭 I'm completely paralysed at the thought of making any decision at the moment. I just want someone to come here & handle all the decision-making for me for the next 3–6 months 😭 Does anyone feel the same? Is this just ... life? Or is this the cost of having co...

• Post #1631135

  I just tried to explain to my husband that one of the reasons why I love knitting so much and why it feels so natural to me is that it's not just creative, it also appeals to the analytical / systems thinking part of my brain. And then I gave the example of how the knitting pattern I'm using is somewhat badly written (no shade, it's fine, it's a free pattern): “like very verbose code, basically written out line by line instead of refactoring it with if statement...